Health & Wellness The Newsletter About Your Health And Caring For Your Body
January 2020
INSIDE: • The Ideal Treatment for Low Back Pain • Grocery Shopping for Healthy Options • A Healthier Tasty Treat • Free Low Back Pain Consultation • The Importance of Warming Up CALL IN! Call for your FREE BACK PAIN ANALYSIS Call us today to schedule your first step out of pain! (345) 943-8700
for Low Back Pain THE IDEAL TREATMENT
Low back pain is by far one of the most common ailments ever experienced. Just about everyone deals with low back pain at one point in their life. For some, the lucky ones, perhaps, the pain is just for a day or two as a result of a particularly grueling day of yard work or a slip-and-fall accident that landed you flat on your bum with a bruise to prove it. For others, the low back pain is something that lingers for years and years, getting worse as a result of improper footwear or particularly unsupportive furniture, and never really healing or going away. It is estimated that one-half of all Americans experience lower back pain annually, and it is considered to be the leading cause of workplace disability worldwide—not just in the United States. It is also one of the most common reasons that people miss work, and is the second most common reason that people visit the doctor’s office. When you put
those two facts together, the cost of dealing with lower back pain really starts to add up. The average annual cost of dealing with back pain in the United States is $50 billion dollars. Unfortunately, a lot of those financial resources go into dealing with back pain through pain management and medication, but that is not an effective long-term solution for dealing with back pain. A far healthier and cost-effective solution is through physiotherapy. Lower Back Pain The rates of low back pain have been steadily rising over the past 20 years. In a recent study, researchers consulted with members a community who experienced back pain to understand what caused their pain, how frequently they experience the pain, and what the severity of the pain is like. (Continued inside)
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