Do you frequently suffer from back pain that’s so severe you’ve got to take a few days off work to reset up?
However, it may be your back that’s causing you grief. Maybe you just don’t like your job. That’s what researchers from
For people who really love their work, a little back pain isn’t going to keep them at home. But others who aren’t happy on the job may unconsciously focus on back pain as an excuse to stay at home, the researchers suggested.
If you’re already vulnerable to back problems, just remember that you’re more sensitive to pain when you’re angry, upset or depressed, especially about unpleasant working conditions on the job. Maybe the back discomfort was always with you, unnoticed, but now suddenly it’s become a major problem.
The results of the study found that job satisfaction has a lot more to do with bad backs than most employers realize. In fact, on-the-job back injuries may heave more to do with how a worker feels about his job than with a pulled muscle.
On the other hand, when you really do hurt your back, some self-help treatment will make life more bear-able.
Careful motion that gets more blood flowing to those injured tissues promotes healing. In 98 percent of the cases, it’s what you do for yourself that makes you feel better.
For example, icing your back helps soothe the ache. Lie on your stomach with a towel covering your ache with an ice pack. Or lie on your back, wrap a bag of frozen peas in a towel, and use that as an ice pack.
A good way to relax the muscles and relieve pressure on your back is to lie on the floor with your knees bent at a 90 degree angle and your calves resting on the sear of a chair.
Sometimes an acupressure treatment does wonders for your aches and pains. Again, lie on the floor (or any hard surface) and put a tennis ball under your back, directly on the sore spot. Roll back and forth until the pain eases.
Taken from Hello Magazine No. 218, January 2004.
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