Back Pain And Your Activity Level

Many times, back pain is caused by your activity level – or sometimes the lack thereof.

The trick with activity is that it can be a blessing and a curse when it comes to back pain. While activity can sometimes cause back pain, when you don’t exercise enough, that can also increase your chances of back pain.

To help your doctor assess whether or not your activities might be causing your troubles with neck and back pain, you will want to include your activity levels in the journal you are keeping.

This will help your doctor see whether you need to increase or decrease your activity in order to help strengthen your back or to rest your back.

The basic activity levels are:

• Sedentary
Sitting down for most of the day

• Low
Exercise some days, but not consistently

• Moderate
Exercise three to four times per week for at least 30 minutes

• High
Exercise every day for at least an hour

Be honest when you are talking to your doctor about your activity levels as this will help to guide your progress during treatment and accurately assess what you should and should not be doing.

If you have started any new activities, you will want to let your doctor know as this can often signal the beginning of back pain problems or movements that may have attributed to the back injury.

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