Sleeping on the wrong mattress can worsen or make LBP (lower back pain) become worse. Lack of support from your mattress strains your muscles, reinforces poor sleeping and doesn’t improve spine alignment: all these contribute to LBP. Sleep comfort is sacrificed if your mattress doesn't match your preferences. A mattress providing both back support and comfort helps to reduce LBP and can help the structure in your spine to rest and rejuvenate when you are sleeping at night. There are a wide … [Read more...] about What to Look for in a Mattress
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Help to Prevent Back Pain for Manual Labourers
Blue-collar workers are known to be at higher risk for work-related aches and pains because their tasks always require greater exertion. LBP (lower back pain) is one of the most common disorders that people employed in manual labour positions experience. Studies reveal that 50 per cent of workers experience back pain symptoms at least once yearly. In 2011, the GBD (Global Burden of Disease Study) revealed that lower back pain is the highest contributing factor to disability worldwide. How … [Read more...] about Help to Prevent Back Pain for Manual Labourers
Spinal Manipulative Therapy for Low Back Pain
Low back pain, defined as pain between the rib cage and the gluteal folds, is a common reason for chiropractic visits in the UK. It is also a common cause of disability in persons younger than 45 years of age. The pain can be characterized by its duration: • Acute pain – is pain that lasts less than four weeks. • Subacute - is an episode of low back pain that lasts from four weeks to three months. • Chronic – is ongoing pain that lasts longer than six months. People experiencing low … [Read more...] about Spinal Manipulative Therapy for Low Back Pain
Sciatica and How Chiropractic Can Help
Anyone who has ever suffered from sciatica knows that it can be intensely painful. Despite the fact that the pain can occur in either leg it is actually an issue with the lower back and is caused by compression of one or more of the 5 sets of nerve roots located there. Sciatic nerve compression can be caused in various ways, the most common of which is a bulging or herniated disk. However, it can also be caused by lumbar spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, trauma, piriformis syndrome or spinal … [Read more...] about Sciatica and How Chiropractic Can Help
Preventing Back Pain for Back Care Awareness Week
BackCare, the leading charity in the UK for those affected by neck or back pain problems, runs an awareness week on a different theme each year. The theme for this year's Back Care Awareness Week (BCAW), which runs from 2nd - 6th October this year, is "Back Pain in Education". Back and neck pain affecting adults costs the UK economy £15bn and result in more than 4,000,000 lost working days every year. BackCare has decided to target children and young adults during BCAW this year because, many … [Read more...] about Preventing Back Pain for Back Care Awareness Week
A Complete Approach To Back Pain
Your Winchester Chiropractor, Max Atkinson, can tell you from experience that more than 85% of us will suffer from back pain at some point. At his Bradford House practice, treatment for patients with back pain is a holistic, complete approach to back pain. Treatments that work well for one person, do not work as well for others so it is vital that after a thorough assessment and diagnosis, combination of treatment approaches are offered in each case. The aim of Chiropractic is to address the … [Read more...] about A Complete Approach To Back Pain