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If a man thinks that back pain is due to indulge in sexual activity he may be wrong because recent research says the back pain is not because of sex but the heavy lifting compel to visit the doctors’ clinic.
Researchers at the George Institute for Global Health interviewed 999 people about what they believed triggered their back pain to evaluate the accuracy of their perceptions of its cause.
People who blamed an incident that had occurred weeks or months before they felt pain, those who could not remember and those who said they had just woken up with the pain were considered not to know what had triggered their pain.
But about two-thirds of respondents were able to identify a specific incident, ranging from the bizarre (“he got the wind on his back”) to the mundane (replacing a toilet roll).
Senior researcher Manuela Ferreira said people with lower back pain were most likely to nominate physical causes or those related to minor tasks, but they underestimated psycho-social causes of back pain, such as being tired or distracted.
The study demonstrates that people are 25 times more likely to injure their backs when they are distracted during heavy lifting activity.
“Patients have a very good insight into what’s happening with their body,” Associate Professor Ferreira said.
“This is helpful for clinicians. We do need to listen to patients. We also need to raise awareness of how risky being fatigued and distracted actually is”, she added.
The most common cause identified was carrying heavy loads, which was nominated by nearly one in five respondents, followed by moderate or physical activity and awkward posture.
Two of the riskiest activities for back pain emerged as gardening and golf.
But contrary to popular opinion, sexual activity was not a major trigger, with only three people nominating it as the cause of their pain.
Jul 1st 2015 23:06