Articles about Back Pain

Note about this page: The latest issue of Positive Health magazine is published on the 4th Thursday of each month. The articles from that issue (or summaries thereof) are placed on this web site on or about the same date.

Work and Leisure without Backache by Joël Carbonnel Misuse is the primary cause of backache, and it doesn’t go away as long as we don’t earnestly tackle this problem of use. The first prerequisite to work and play without backache is to master the way we use ourselves.

The Vital Role of Seating in Back Care by Alan Glaser Do you suffer from the occasional ache in your neck or back? Should you expect these pains to arrive as part of your daily work? The answer to this last question is, of course, no. But why should it matter what we sit on and for how long? These are the questions we will explore as we look at the importance of seating.

Power Assisted Micro-Manipulation by Irene Phillips the first osteopath to be using Power-Assisted MicroManipulation. The treatment is carried out working on all levels of the spine, with the patient lying on his or her abdomen.

Prevention of Back Pain by Richard Ablett  It is staggering to think that back pain will affect so many adults. Back pain in its various forms will affect 80% of people at some stage during their adult lives. This is the grim news given to us by the National Back Pain Society.

Self-Help for Back Pain by Pete Moore About 5 years ago, when I was 39 years old, a couple of discs in my lower back prolapsed. How did it happen? Or more correctly, how did I do it?

Links to other Back Pain
web sites

American Chronic Pain Association Some good general information on coping with chronic pain. Limited links.

Australian Painworld Clear information on chronic pain and its treatment. Good links page.

American Pain Society News and information with a very good links page.

International Association for the Study of Pain Very good site with detailed links to organizations and journals involved in pain research.

National Back Pain Association - Havering Branch Pete Moore maintains this excellent site with comprehensive information about back pain and details of the possible treatments and where you can contact practitioners. The site also has an excellent links page.

National Back Pain Association Articles and information about the Association. Comprehensive Practitioner lists. Limited links.

North American Chronic Pain Association of Canada Excellent resources for anyone living in Canada but also good general information and links.

Self-Help for Optimal Back Care by Neil Summers You will not find a more superb piece of machinery than your body, but for the majority of us this amazing machine is not functioning to its optimal capacity. Far too often we are not even free of pain and one major ‘grumbler’ is the back.

How Sleep Surfaces Affect Our Backs by Bill Ancell Traditionally, beds have been viewed as furniture, and marketed in an extremely visual way by retailers. Terms such as orthopaedic have been introduced by the bed manufacturers, which, in fact, has very little meaning as to the performance of the mattress incorporated in the bed, other than to suggest some form of medical benefit.

VDUs and the Computer Posture by Robi Persad BSc(Ost) MRO MACA In the last century of the second millennium A.D. the requirements on the human body are changing. The long days of manual labour and muscular toil have all but gone, and as we spend an increasing number of hours sitting at desks this is having a profound effect upon our physical well being.