{"id":338,"date":"2012-06-01T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T06:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2017-03-24T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T10:04:24","slug":"back-pain-in-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/back-pain-in-young-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Back pain in young adults"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Half of all adults aged 18-35 now experience back pain. The cost to society is around \u00a312.3 billion a year. As Acting CEO of BackCare I fronted new research for the ‘Can You Feel My Pain?<\/a>‘ campaign linking it to the ‘sit still’ culture in our schools and offices. This is what the Daily Telegraph made of it:<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Back pain ‘timebomb’ in store due to ‘sit still’ culture’ by Stephen Adams.<\/p>\n

A “sit still” culture in schools and the workplace is leading to a “healthcare\u00a0\u00a0timebomb” of back pain in young people, a charity warns today.<\/p>\n

Half of 18-to-34-year-olds now regularly suffer from back pain, found a survey\u00a0of almost 2,400 people across Britain.<\/p>\n

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A quarter of young men with back pain said it affected their ability to work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Overall, almost two-thirds of adults – all those over 18 – said they suffered\u00a0from back pain, according to the online survey, carried out on behalf of\u00a0Pfizer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sean McDougall, chief executive of the charity BackCare, which is involved\u00a0\u00a0 with the drugs firm in a campaign to raise awareness of chronic back pain,\u00a0said: “This survey backs up what our members are telling us about the\u00a0difficulty in obtaining timely and adequate treatment for all types of back pain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“But the real shock is the increase in incidence of back pain in young\u00a0people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“The \u2018sit still\u2019 culture of schools and the workplace, combined with lack\u00a0of exercise, is creating a healthcare timebomb.”<\/p>\n

Studies show that lack of movement in one’s daily routine leads to loss of\u00a0\u00a0muscle tone, particular in the lower back, which reduces the stability of\u00a0the spine and can lead to back pain.<\/p>\n

Mr McDougall warned: “Consequently, millions of people aged 18 to 34 are\u00a0destined to spend the next 60 years living with back pain”.<\/p>\n

Half of all adults with back pain (52 per cent) said they lacked the physical\u00a0ability to perform daily tasks; while 45 per cent said it put them in a poor\u00a0mood; and nine per cent said it had a negative impact on their sex lives.<\/p>\n

The Can You Feel My Pain campaign is highlighting the incidence of neuropathic\u00a0\u00a0pain, that caused by damage to nerve endings, which has been estimated to\u00a0contribute towards a third of chronic back pain cases.<\/p>\n

Dr Ollie Hart, a Sheffield GP with a special interest in chronic pain, said: “Back\u00a0pain is often treated as a routine condition by GPs, despite the fact that it can lead to many repeat visits and unresolved complications for patients.<\/p>\n

“Neuropathic back pain is typically under-diagnosed but healthcare\u00a0\u00a0 professionals can use simple checks including asking their patients some key\u00a0questions about the specific types of pain they are experiencing, to help\u00a0them quickly identify neuropathic back pain and ensure that they are\u00a0prescribing the most effective treatments.<\/p>\n

“The sorts of things they should be looking for are descriptions of\u00a0\u00a0 freezing, shocking, crawling or burning pain.”<\/p>\n

What next?<\/p>\n

Sign the ‘Can You Feel My Pain<\/em>?’ Bill of Rights<\/a><\/p>\n

Find out why back pain is also affecting more and more children<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the original text of this article: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/8759632\/Back-pain-timebomb-in-store-due-to-sit-still-culture.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Half of all adults aged 18-35 now experience back pain. The cost to society is around \u00a312.3 billion a year. As Acting CEO of BackCare I fronted new research for the ‘Can You Feel My Pain?‘ campaign linking it to the ‘sit still’ culture in our schools and offices. This is what the Daily Telegraph […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,22,17,14,25,6,16,5],"tags":[43,38,39],"blocksy_meta":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Back-Pain2-small1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8v7cH-5s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stakeholderdesign.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}