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Putting recovery from back pain in motion With no obvious cause, a low-back problem often becomes a problem for life Living in pain
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Hartford Courant
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Hartford, Conn.
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Yet low-back pain has been called an illness in search of a disease. The high costs of disability are attributed to a minority of cases in which workers are afflicted by long-term, chronic back pain and often face surgery and pain-management therapy. The other difficulty in pinpointing pain sources is that most nonspecific backaches are soft-tissue injuries: They're caused by strained or sprained back ligaments and/or muscles. Surrounding muscles can go into painful spasms (they contract but won't relax). "We don't have good tests that diagnose a muscular origin of back pain," [Rowland Hazard] says. Antoine Helewa, chairman of the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, is heading up a study examining the relationship between weak abdominal muscles and the incidence of low-back pain. In interviews before the full study began, 1,800 university employees were questioned about back pain and tested for abdominal strength. Seventy percent of those with weak muscles reported bouts of low-back pain in the past five years. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.
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