Walking three times a week to ease back pain almost halves the risk of its recurrence, according to the first study of its kind.
About 800 million people worldwide have low back pain, and seven in 10 who recover experience flare-ups within a year.
Researchers said the findings, published in the Lancet, show walking could have a “profound impact” on the leading cause of disability worldwide.
“You don’t need to be walking 5 or 10km every day to get these benefits,” said Mark Hancock, the study’s senior author and a professor of physiotherapy at Macquarie University in Australia.
“The important thing to remember is to start with short walks then gradually increase the distance and intensity as your fitness increases. Walking is a low-cost, widely accessible and simple exercise that almost anyone can engage in, regardless of geographic location, age or socioeconomic status.”
Hancock said people who walked three to five times a week, for an average of 130 minutes a week, remained pain-free for nearly twice as long compared with those who did not receive any treatment.
I wish this helped me, but my back always starts hurting when I go for walks… although it’s more my middle-back rather than lower. I try to get in a 30-minute walk at least twice a week, plus of course things like going to the grocery store and mowing the lawn add a lot of time. Never seems to be enough to help though.
I think the point here is that if you are overall healthy, this will prevent the issue.
If you got issues genetic or injury, it won’t really heal you.
Don’t you just hate spell-checkers changing your words?
I’m certainly not the type to get out on a bike and ride 50 miles a day, but on the other hand despite spending a lot of time at the computer I also spend a lot of time working on projects and moving around. Just this week I started cutting up the steel to build a new utility trailer so I certainly move around a lot, but my body still hates me.
That was speller checker was sabotage IMHO lol
Most of fediverse at prolly desk jockeys lol
But yeah got to get out and got to do spemtjong beyond finger banging the keyboard.
Could also be age… Shit don’t work the same after late20s
It leaks, it creacks :/