If you often suffer from back pain, bed rest is one of the worst things you can do. Instead, going for a gentle stroll five times a week improves the problem, and reduces the chances of it coming back.
Low back pain that doesn’t have an obvious cause is a common scourge and around 70 percent of sufferers will suffer a recurrence within a year—but regular walking seems to be a powerful antidote.
Researchers have discovered that people who go for a walk when they have back pain almost double the time before they suffer another episode.
In their study, researchers from Macquarie University in Sydney, who make up the WalkBack study team, tested the benefits of a gentle stroll on a group of around 700 people who suffer from non-specific low back pain; half walked for 30 minutes, five days a week, and the rest carried on with their normal life.
On average, the walkers were free of back pain for 200 days afterwards while the non-walkers suffered a recurrence within 112 days, the researchers found.
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