BACKACHE IN WOMEN

BACKACHE IN WOMEN

The majority of women suffer from this often debilitating condition and prevention rather than cure should be our aim.
Backache or pain in the back is a very common problem in women, particularly the middle-aged and elderly, in my clinical practice, I have come across so many women from ail socio-economic groups suffering from backache that I feel that a woman not having backache is an exception.
Though more common in the middle-aged and elderly, younger women are not exempt, though the cause of backache may be different in them. Moreover this ailment seems to be chronic in nature, occurring throughout the year, with variable intensity.
The causes of backache are several, the most common being wrong posture adopted during household work. As an adolescent girl starts helping her mother in the household work, she starts using her back as a spring for doing the various chores. She bends it forward, stretches it sideward and twists it in all possible directions.
This practice continues throughout life. Gradually, over the years, this places strain on the joints and muscles of the back and the result is pain/
Lifting heavy weights also causes similar strain and can even cause a slipped disc and other problems of the bones. As middle-age approaches, this problem becomes chronic.