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Best therapy option Do not spare with back pain
Around 80 percent of Germans suffer from back pain every now and again. Some of them then spare themselves, hoping that the symptoms will soon go away. But if the pain is not too severe, sufferers should move better, health experts recommend.
Common illness back pain
The number of people who suffer from back pain every now and then rises and rises. Just last year, nearly 37 million Germans visited a doctor for musculoskeletal or connective tissue disorders. Health experts advise strengthening the back through exercise to prevent discomfort. And even if pain occurs, it is usually better to move, rather than sparing.
For a light backache you should not lie on the sofa and protect yourself, but rather move. Health experts recommend sports that strengthen the back. (Image: Viacheslav Iakobchuk / fotolia.com) Do not lie on the sofa if you have complaints
Dr. Reinhard Schneiderhan, spinal column specialist and orthopedist in Munich as well as president of the German Spinal League recommends in a message of the news agency dpa not to lie on the couch and to protect himself.
Rather, one should try to solve neck tension by leaving the shoulders free.
Tennis ball massage against tensions
Tension in other areas of the back helps according to the physician, the tennis ball massage. You stand backwards against a wall, push a tennis ball between the back and the wall and move slowly up and down.
If the lower spine hurts, the step bearing can do well. To do this, lie flat on your back and place your legs on a chair at a 90-degree angle.
Strengthen the back
To prevent back problems, according to experts, exercises such as Katzenbuckel, hacker and Kraule. And of course sports that strengthen the cross - for example, swimming, Nordic walking or Pilates.
However, it depends on the right degree. "The dose makes the poison. If someone with back problems just walk, that's wrong. If he does that for a long time, it will hurt himself. " Schneiderhan in an interview a few months ago.
He continued, "Swimming is not always good for the back either. As positive as back or breaststroke can affect, so much burdened the dolphin an untrained back. Cycling brings relatively little, but it does not burden. "
Basically, if the back pain persists for several days and other symptoms such as numbness or fever are added, a doctor should definitely be consulted. (Ad)