Summary:
Obesity is one of the common thing we're facing from our health. It can not only lead to heart attacks or any other diseases, but it will give you a back pain in a long term. This article discusses the link between obesity and back pain.
What exactly is obesity?
Obesity is known as an large amount of excess fat tissue in a body. Health Care Providers generally use Body Mass Index (BMI), which is essentially a height-to-weight ratio, to determine if someone is obese. If someone has a BMI of 30 or more , they are considered over-weight. Take for example, a person who weighs 203 pounds or more, and stands at a height of 5'9'', has a BMI of 30 and is considered chronically overweight.
It is widely recognized that obesity causes a a lot of health-related issues, which includes diabetes, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, cancer, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, and gallbladder disease. Even So, doctors are also discovering that obesity can contribute to musculoskeletal disorders such as back pain.
If you know more about your body, than it will make much more good sense. Our spine is the main component of our body that holds us together. It's main job is to carry and distribute the weight of our body. When the body is carrying additional weight, the spine has to do more work than what it's doing before. The result can injure to the spine, which results into back pain.
Exactly how does obesity play a role in back pain?
Here is the list of what it will do to your body:
- Lack of body fitness
- Lack of exercise
- Causes harm to the muscles in the back and pelvis
- Your thighs will become weak.
However, at the same time, these areas can become very irreconcilable. The weakness and lack of flexibility will cause serious strain on the lower back, causing it to curve. As a result, in turn, causes the pelvis to jut out. The lack of poor posture can cause a chain reaction all the way up the spine, eventually resulting in the entire structure of the spine becoming compromised and weak.
Furthermore, the poor diet and inactive lifestyle of many obese people can affect both the strength and density of the spinal vertebrae, which will eventually result in osteoporosis. Extra body weight can also put pressure on and do damage to the facet joints in the spine, resulting in osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis.
Overall, approximately 80 percent of the people will encounter back pain at some point in their lives, and for most of those people, the pain will resolve on its own within two weeks or so. However, people who are obese are more likely to have recurring or unresolved back pain that eventually turns into a more serious condition.
2011? Dr. Brendal Norris, Chiropracticbackpainrelief.org, Read other articles about back pain and back pain relief at http://chiropracticbackpainrelief.org
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