Sitting on a couch endlessly for hours not only increases back pain but also leads to issues with bones and joints. And so, according to a new study, completely avoiding sitting for a longer time may be a good way of keeping your back pain from getting worse. Finnish researchers found that when people with back pain sat even a little less each day, their symptoms were less like to progress over the next six months.
“If you have a tendency for back pain or excessive sitting and are concerned for your back health, you can try to figure out ways to reduce sitting at work or during leisure time," said Jooa Norha, the lead researcher from the University of Turku. The research is among the rare studies done to find out the effects prolonged sitting has on back health and back pain. How was the study conducted? Researchers involved 64 obese and overweight people with heart risk factors to reduce the time they spent sitting each day by 40 minutes.
All of the participants were already battling some level of back pain when they were enlisted for the study. After six months, the team said back pain intensity increased significantly more in the control group than in those who were sitting less, in which back pain intensity remained unchanged. A study blamed a sedentary lifestyle for increasing back pain.
The study, published in the journal BMJ Open blamed a sedentary lifestyle with less movement as the cause of back pain. “Our participants were quite normal middle-aged adults, who sa.
