How Proper Posture Can Improve Your Back Pain
Millions of people experience back pain. In fact, back pain is the most commonly reported area of discomfort across the United States. It is estimated that approximately 25 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, many of whom experience that pain in their back. According to one longitudinal study, 3% of all emergency room visits between the years of 2004-2008 were also due to back pain or injury.
As you can tell, back pain is extremely common, and it can also pose several limitations on your daily life.
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Whatever you may be preparing for – whether it’s a competition, big game, recital, marathon, or anything else along those lines – it’s no secret that the training is extensive. With any athletic feat, you have to train your muscles and tissues to perform in the ways you want them to. Inevitably, this can lead to soreness or pain. While this is a minor setback, it doesn’t change the fact that it temporarily impedes your training process.
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If you have been suffering from chronic pain (defined as persistent pain lasting longer than three months), you are not alone. In fact, the American Academy of Pain Medicine states that there are at least 100 million Americans are living with chronic pain. Because such a large amount of the country lives with chronic pain, the demand for prescription pain medications keeps rising. In 2013 alone, physicians prescribed nearly a quarter of a billion opioid prescriptions – which, when calculated against the population, equates to approximately one bottle per person living in America.
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