10 habits that are crushing your back
The Back pain It has become a classic of our lives. It can appear at any age, that is, debut in childhood or youth, and accompany them to old age. When we feel pain we medicate ourselves with analgesics, or we get hot, cold, that is, we resort to the classic remedies, but generally we do not worry about what the origin is.
If we look for the cause, the first thing we have to take into account is that Back pain is a symptom, not a disease, and therefore, it is important to dedicate time and effort to prevent it. Currently, back pain is one of the causes of greater absenteeism in the world and also cause depression because of its disabling nature.
10 daily habits that are destroying your back
Although most of the time we do not realize it, the truth is that every day we repeat certain gestures, postures and movements that are ultimately responsible for our back pains. They are habits of our daily life that, literally, could be "machando our back".
In addition to stretching before playing sports or not carrying excessive weight, to have a healthy back these are not the only tips that we must take into account, apart from the classics there are others that avoid many injuries, and are precisely those that we must be careful since we do them daily.
1. Care when sneezing. If we often sneeze without expelling all the air, it can produce a prolapsed disc and even a herniated disc, if the person is predisposed to suffer from this ailment. If when we sneeze we find ourselves in a strange position, squatting, for example, this possibility increases.
2. Reading in bed may not be so relaxing in the long run. Reading in bed with straight legs produces the same effect as crouching badly. It is terrible for the lumbar. If we do it on a daily basis it will hurt us a lot, with chronic back pain.
3. Change your shoulder just like you change your bag model. Carrying it on the same shoulder for many years can give you serious spinal problems, due to the loss of constant balance to which we subject it.
4. The "washing machine posture" is fateful. Crouching and turning in the same position, what we do exactly when putting the washing machine is very bad for the discs and vertebrae of the lumbar.
5. Look where you put the toilet paper. If you place it behind the urinal, it forces you to turn, adopting a very bad posture, especially for the cervical area. This movement can be repeated between five and six times each day.
6. The wallet syndrome can cost you dearly. It is so called because it has its origin in the male habit of carrying the wallet, full of documents, in one of the back pockets of the pants. Being a daily weight, we can decompensate the spine, pinching the sciatic nerve.
7. Heels, pretty, but dangerous. People who wear heels every day for many years are literally trashed feet and back. Prolonged use of the heel can lead to injuries such as "Morton's Neuroma" (nerve irritation of the foot located between the third and fourth fingers) and spondylolisthesis, the displacement of one lumbar vertebra over another inferior.
8. The abuse of the mobile phone threatens to create an epidemic of cervical injuries in the new generations. The unnatural posture of looking down to write on the smartphone's keyboard is equivalent to carrying on our shoulders the weight of an eight-year-old child. The data is provided The Journal surgical Technology.
9. The sitting, known as the new tobacco. Spending eight hours sitting a day not only harms the back, but health in general. To combat it, we must introduce the movement in our daily routine: twenty minutes of standing, eight minutes of sitting and two minutes of movement.
10. Nothing to get the arm out the window. When driving, we must take both arms to the steering wheel, but not only as a precaution, but to avoid the so-called "supraspinatus tendinitis". Behind this medical terminology hides inflammation of the shoulder by repeated forced movements.
Ata Pouramini. Director of Quiropractic Valencia and author of School of the Back Y You are your medicine.
