Preventing back pain

Any pathology affecting the bones, nerve, discs, ligaments and muscles of the back may give rise to back pain.

BACK pain is a universal phenomenon. In the United States, up to 84% of the population would have experienced an episode of back pain during their lifetime. In Malaysia, a study carried out in 1988 showed that 10.9% of men and 19.5% of women surveyed had had back pain in the preceding one week.