To date, interventions for back pain have only shown limited effectiveness.
\nTherefore, there is growing interest in the importance of lifestyle factors in back pain.
\nThis study by Roberts and colleagues investigated whether a healthy lifestyle and emotional health, such as low stress and depressed mood, is associated with better resilience in back pain.
\nResilience refers to a process of adapting to adverse circumstances.
\nIn the context of back pain, this means either recovery or maintenance of normal function.
\nData from a twin database was analyzed retrospectively and the course after a back pain episode was examined.
\nThe advantage of twin data is that genetic and familial influences can be controlled for.
\nIn these data, neither a healthier lifestyle nor better emotional health led to a faster recovery from the pain.
\nHowever, it was found that people with a higher health score had a higher ability to function despite pain.
\nHowever, two things should be noted when evaluating the results.
\nFirstly, a large number of analyses were carried out with this data set, which increases the risk of false results.
\nSecondly, the study population was very homogeneous, with a medium to good lifestyle and only a few people from low socio-economic backgrounds.
\nHowever, because back pain and its associated functional limitations are so widespread, these are important findings that could help us to reduce people’s suffering a little.
\nI published a book to enable patients to recognize and implement lifestyle factors within the 5 osteopathic models of organ and body system health: The Osteopathy Self-Help Book.
\nPatients seem to experience much more lasting positive changes in their health when you take this into account.
\nDo you consider lifestyle factors in your practice? <\/p>\n
Back pain plagues millions, but the solution could be closer than we think.
\nThe latest study by Roberts and team shows surprising links between lifestyle, emotional health and back resilience.
\nThis blog dives deep into the research and offers practical insights from the ‘Osteopathy Self-Help Book’ that can guide any sufferer towards sustainable recovery.
\nDiscover how small changes in everyday life can have a big impact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"iawp_total_views":21,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-osteopathy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathie-liem.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}