 Be careful while brushing your teethThe 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 ! 
Hurting your back is traumatic - physically and mentally
When it happened to me it was like a bolt of lightning striking my lower back. In the midst of some intensive exercise I stopped, ironically, to move a small dumbbell away from my feet to avoid the possibly of tripping on it. I leant over, reached down, and almost at the point of giving it a gentle flick to the right with my fingers a shrieking pain immobilised me.
I was both dumbfounded and in agony. Putting weight on my left leg hurt, and even standing up straight hurt. My mind was racing. Your're only as strong as your back.
One of my instructors was fond of saying "you're only as strong as your back", and my back felt like it was permanently out of action. Was I ever going to be able to exercise again? Was this going to be what life was like for the rest of my life? Had I pinched a nerve, would it always hurt? I was now sweating more from fear than from pain!
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