Today, we’re discussing a topic that has become increasingly important to many of us. Now, you may wonder – how is pain back important? Now, a sedentary lifestyle has been described as the one where a person spends a lot of time sitting, whether for work or leisure and doesn’t engage in nearly as much physical activity as they should. We feel back pain in different areas of the body, and while for some, this pain may be acute, for others it’s chronic. Therefore, today, we’re going to get to the bottom of things – why we experience back pain and where, and most importantly how to say goodbye and good riddance to it.
Sedentary lifestyle
They say that sitting is the new smoking – the plague of the 21st century. Now, a sedentary lifestyle has been described as a “type of lifestyle where an individual does not receive regular amounts of physical activity.” Now, aside from numerous other negative effects it can potentially have on your health, a great deal of sitting can take a toll on your spine as well. Namely, it most commonly causes both lower back pain as well as neck pain and tension in the shoulders. The reason it mostly ‘hits’ those areas is simple – most of modern-day jobs involve sitting on a chair, with a computer in front of you, and when you do this 8 or more hours a day, it’s completely normal to start feeling this kind of pain. Now, the good news is that this ‘sitting disease’ can be beaten or nipped in the bud easily – with exercise. The best part is, it doesn’t even need to be grueling exercise – as many as 10k steps will be enough to neutralize the hours of sitting, so just get up, and start walking!