Having back pain essentially makes you understand the real meaning of the word pain. Whether sleeping, sitting, standing, walking or doing any activity, back pain can deny you peace, depending on its intensity.
Let's start this one off with the single biggest back pain myth of them all. “This isn't relevant to me! I won't get back pain.” Hate to break it to you, but if you haven't had back pain yet, there is an 80% chance you will have it at some point in your life, as 8/10 of us will experience it in our lifetime. And even if you really never do get back pain, statistically speaking four out of five of your loved ones will experience it. So yes, this is very relevant to you.
Back pain is a pretty poorly understood physical ailment, which is confusing considering that four out of five of us will experience it at some point in their lives, and half of us will have it this year. And perhaps it is because it is so common that we disregard it so much. After all, if back pain is just something which happens to us, it is easy to disregard it the same way we disregard a cold or a small bruise.
A form of Chinese medicine, acupuncture can be dated back to over 2,500 years ago. The basic idea behind acupuncture is that there are energy flows throughout the body known as qi (pronounced as “chee”).
When you suffer from back pain it can sometimes feel as though the simplest things are sources of agony. If you are a sufferer of chronic back pain then you know the problem all too well. You have probably spent most of your life trying to work around things that hurt you, getting new gadgets to make life easier, and doing stretches before braving a new activity. For that reason, the advice in this article may not be the most obvious, as we suspect you have already tried the obvious tricks.