25/10/2024
Why movement itโs important
Most of us know that sitting too long can be bad for our health. However, it also can be a cause of back pain. When you sit too long, your joints arenโt being used. The area of your low back is a nerve-dense location, and with the immobility of sitting too much, it can start whatโs known as the pain-spasm-pain cycle โ where a skeletal muscle spasm causes pain in your spine.
The pain-spasm-pain cycle can first be triggered from an underlying condition such as a herniated disc, arthritic joint or bulging disc. When that happens, usually without warning, one of these conditions suddenly triggers a muscle spasm in your spine.
In turn, the triggered muscle spasm causes ischemia, which is a lack of blood flow in and around the muscle. The ischemia then causes pain. The muscle sees that pain as a threat to the spine โ and reacts in an effort to protect it with another new spasm.
As a result, you can get locked into a never-ending back pain-spasm-pain cycle.
One of the most important things that people with low back pain can do is to stay as physically active as possible in daily life and exercise regularly. Not moving enough can weaken your core muscles, make the pain worse over the long term, and lead to other health problems. Itโs a fact that regular physical exercise has been shown to reduce pain.
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