What’s up everyone, it’s David back with this weeks episode of Health and Fitness Friday. Your bite sized podcast meant to make you a little smarter and a little stronger at the end of every week.
We’re still riding the back pain train this week, but we’re taking it BACK IN TIME.
Back Pain seems like a modern dilemma. We sit more and more for our jobs, we sit and watch Netflix at home, we sit in our cars and therefore we have back pain.
People probably didn’t have back pain before our lifestyles became sedentary, right? Actually, not right. We can look back as far as 3,000 years ago and find documented cases of back pain. Now, back in the day - meaning like, 1500 BCE - we don’t have statistics to tell us the per capita case rate of back pain or anything of that nature, but we can say that some of the most influential names in the history of science and medicine were pondering back pain, what caused it, and how to treat it, many many centuries ago.
And now, at least 3,000 years into the written history of back pain, we still don’t have a discernible cause for 95-99% of low back pain cases. Interesting enough, as is often the case, our most modern paradigm of back pain is actually beginning to resemble more closely some of the most ancient definitions, rather than what we have considered “fact” in the interim.
A lot has changed in the last 2500 years, but we are still trying to figure out what people experience low back pain, what structures are at fault, how to address back pain effectively and create lasting results. We’ve developed advanced surgical techniques, diagnostic tools and imaging systems, and written countless thousands of articles and books on anatomy and pathology. And yet, the current wave of back pain treatment focuses less on the biomechanics structure and more on the the entire picture. The biopsychosocial model acknowledges that our strucutre, our thoughts and our environment cannot be separated, but must be considered as equal parts of a whole if we are to understand and treat pain. I don’t know about you but to me, it sounds like we’ve returned in large part to where we were 2500 years ago when Aristotle noted that pain is a “passion of the sole.”
Catch Ya’ll next week!
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