Back pain - exercise and movement may be the best medicine

Be careful while brushing your teeth

The thought of a bad back strikes fear into all of us.

We know people living with bad backs and it's painful just watching them live their daily life.

My wife hit the wall with her back in too many falls as a short-track speed skater in Japan. She has chronic pain from fractured vertebrae. To be honest, I can't image how hard it must be to live with that every day. 

As it turns out, the source of common back pain is a bit of an enigma.

We most often think of injuring ourselves during heavy lifting. But statistically 95% of people experience a back injury as a result of something like bending over to brush their teeth !

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