Conservative treatment of low back pain which has been done for 35 years

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If patients keep lumbar spine forward flexion for a long time, back muscle may become fatigued and causes low back pain. Also if hyperextension of back is forced the capsule of the facets may be damaged and causes low back pain. Under these ideas, conservative treatments have been done for 35 years. Clinical study was performed on patients who visited again after Initial visit for low back pain. Among these patients, 71.8% were improved in two weeks and average interval to second visit was 4.9 years. Patients just keep good posture and have not accepted any treatment. Questionarie was sent to 800 residents whether they had low back pain in past. 681 (85.1%) returned. 85.1% in male and 86.0% in female had low back pain. Low back pain occurred when they held heavy things in 37.2% and kept forward flexion for a long time in 34.2% in male, and 40.8% in former and 46.8% in later in female. 78.4% in male were improved in two weeks and 85.7% in female. Low back pain has been prevent and improved by taking care of daily life posture.
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