Back Pain
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March 16, 2020
4 Common Lower Back Injuries in Young Athletes
As anyone who played sports in their youth knows, athletics are a key part of a child’s physical and social development. Sports teach children teamwork, friendship, competition and discipline, which is why it’s no surprise that 96.7% of children aged 11-16 and 84.1% of children aged 5-10 play sports outside of school, according to Physiopedia.
Although youth sports offer a host of benefits, the dark side of athletics is the fact that injury often can’t be avoided. Sadly, up to 20% of all sports injuries result in lower back and neck pain, as determined by Spine-Health. Breaking that percentage down further, 10-15% of young athletes suffer lower back pain from sports specifically. In fact, 30% of all athletes
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March 10, 2020
Why Does Your Back Hurt as You Get Older?
No one bends over backwards at the thought of getting old. The natural aging process brings noticeable differences, which tend to include more than just a few gray hairs and an extended waistline. According to Dr. Alexis Tigan from Penn Medicine, most people tend to experience back pain and neck pain in their 40s. Although lower back pain is more common than upper back pain, you may experience both during your middle-age years.
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January 28, 2020
What Causes Lower Back Pain and How to Prevent It
Let’s face it. Lower back pain doesn’t discriminate and affects men and women across the UK equally. With back pain being one of the top reasons why people miss work and suffer injuries on the job, it can come as no surprise that 80% of adults state that they’ve experienced back pain at some point in their life. Although most back pain lasts a few days or weeks, what if we could avoid it all together?
Read our blog to learn what causes back pain and discover ways to prevent it. Our tips, paired with our back pain products, can help you move pain free!
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January 01, 2020
What Can Orthopedic Doctors Diagnose?
Suffering from back pain and osteoarthritis has sadly become an everyday occurrence for a large portion of the UK population. According to the NHS, osteoarthritis affects more than 8.75 million people in the UK alone and has become the leading type of arthritis. You may know that orthopedic doctors diagnose and treat anything to do with the musculoskeletal system, including back pain and arthritis, but how much do you really know about what they treat and diagnose on a daily basis?
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December 16, 2019
Risk of Child Back Pain from Backpacks
The jury is out - Children and adolescents who carry a backpack aren’t at a higher risk of developing back pain according to a recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM). After compiling data from 63 cross-sectional studies and five prospective studies that followed people over a period of time, the BJSM has confirmed that there is no clear link between carrying heavy backpacks and back pain in children and adolescents.
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October 22, 2019
Back Pain Recovery With Teeter Inversion
Begin your journey to back pain recovery with Teeter Hang Ups and achieve real, sustainable results.
Unlike many other products, Teeter Inversion Tables don’t just cover up symptoms, they target back pain at its source. By using Teeter Inversion Tables for just a few minutes each day, millions of users have relieved back pain in the comport of their own homes. Just take a look through our reviews for more details on how Teeter has already helped so many other people just like you.
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August 24, 2019
Teeter Gravity Boots for Back Pain
Do Gravity boots help your back?
Teeter Gravity boots have a variety of amazing benefits, including the potential to dramatically improve users suffering from back pain. People that have spent years suffering with back pain on a regular basis and finally finding a way to reduce or remove this back pian; by hanging upside down!
Many back pain sufferers find that teeter gravity boots, as a form of inversion therapy, eliminates their back pain, when nothing else is helping. By wearing the boots and hanging upside down users are able to reduce the pressure on their spinal columns. This then allows the muscles in the body to relax and for the discs in the spine to be rehydrated.
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August 14, 2019
A guide to office ergonomics
Back pain at work is an all too common occurrence, with experts estimating that up to 80% of the population will experience back pain at some time in their lives. Despite this alarming statistic (which is on the rise too!), we still regularly witness office workers spending a significant amount of their week working at a desk/workstation that isn’t ergonomic and is likely to be contributing towards back pain, as well as other conditions too. This is why we’ve created the guide and made it our mission to guide as many people as we can towards a healthier back, free of pain and discomfort.
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August 05, 2019
What Pillow Is Best For Back Pain?
A survey was completed recently, it was called The Global Burden of Disease survey and it found that lower back pain was the leading cause of disability across the globe. However, it is often not brought on by serious medical conditions but instead by the resulting effect of stress or strain from bad posture. In some cases, it is brought on by awkward sleeping positions and lifestyle habits for example.
You’d be surprised at how much back support pillows or back care pillows can help with back pain.