Study Says Walking Can Prevent Your Backache From Returning
Backache is a condition that affects a lot of people. It tends to affect the overall quality of life of an individual. A lot of people might know how to get initial relief, however, the pain tends to come back. A recent study has found that people who have a habit of taking a walk will have their back aches much less frequently. The study also says that your walk need not be especially athletic to reduce the pain.
For the study, the scientists in Australia prescribed a walking programme for a group involving hundreds of non-athletic adults who had recovered after suffering from non-specific lower back pain. Half of them undertook the exercise wherein they were walking for at least 30 minutes, five days a week. The other half of the people did not walk. Physiotherapists helped individually tailor the walking programmes of 701 participants.
The study found that on average, those who followed the exercise programme had such severe low back pain again after 208 days that they had to restrict their regular activities. However, for those people in the control group, their back pain only returned and forced them to stop doing their usual activities after just 112 days.
This means that the people who were included in the walking programme had almost twice as long until their pain returned. They also experienced less pain overall, according to Mark Hancock, co-author of the study led by Natasha Pocovi from Macquarie University in Sydney.
The study was published in the Lancet medical journal. Hancock said, “We don’t know exactly why walking is so good for preventing back pain. But it’s probably a combination of the gentle oscillating movements, the strain and strengthening of the spinal structures and muscles, the relaxation and stress relief and the release of feel-good endorphins.”
Doctors have long been recommending that people with back pain exercise regularly and do sport. However, not everyone has the money, time or access to exercise programmes, said Pocovi. “Walking is an inexpensive, easily accessible and simple exercise.”
The researchers hope that their findings can help as many people as possible around the world, especially given that more than 600 million people worldwide suffer from lower back pain.
(With inputs from IANS)
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