The last straw: Overuse
Most patients think that trauma is the leading cause of back pain but both the statistics and what we see in in our practice appears to suggest that overuse is the leading cause of back pain.
Most of us have been working from home more than ever before. In practice we have been seeing a lot of patients who have given up their beautifully ergonomic workspaces at work for working from the sofa or dining table at home. Having the right chair, desk, standing desk, mousing surface, foot rest and things like that can make a big difference between pain and being pain free.
Most of our patients who come in with headache, neck pain and low back pain, come in because of sitting for hours without a break at work, because of doing repetitive tasks at work or at home (such as painting, snow shoveling or raking leaves,) and all without taking appropriate breaks.
Sometimes it’s the new mom carrying her baby the wrong way, a patient sleeping on the wrong kind of bed, with the wrong kind of pillow or sitting in a workspace that’s not ergonomic. Overuse can be more serious than patients realize: Leading to problems with
- disc herniation,
- muscle spasms,
- joint damage and even
- nerve damage
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Regards in health,
Dr. Davia H. Shepherd
Saporito Chiropractic
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