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Low back pain (LBP) can have many causes such as genetics, acquired abuses, body type (especially obesity – body mass index or BMI >30), gender, as well as cultural aspects that predispose one to acquire low back trouble. So, the question remains, “what can I do to reduce my risk for developing low back pain?”
The answer, like the cause is – you guessed it – multifactorial. Since we can’t change our genetics, we’ll have to accept that one. But, we can change our BMI by keeping our …
Years ago, local farmers would put on their Sunday best clothes and go to church. After they were finished dressing, they would put their wallet in their back pocket.
Then, these farmers would sit on hard wooden church pews and their thick wallets would dig into their buttocks for an hour or so. This wallet pressure crushed their sciatica nerve, so that when they stood up they felt pain in their leg, tinging in their legs, burning and aching.
So, the farmers discovered that if they would just carry their …