‘Proper posture can help avoid backache’

ISLAMABAD — Medical professional and head of rehabilitation department, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Dr Khalid Jamil Akhtar has strongly recommended to people to follow proper body posture in daily life as it can help prevent backache.

Talking to a private news channel here on Tuesday, Dr Khalid said for patients having back pain it is quite essential that they should follow the right posture while sitting, standing, sleeping or driving otherwise their problem could worsen.

He said that complaints of severe backache are mostly coming to them from youngsters especially girls who he said generally maintain a bad posture habits especially during their studies so he recommended

Complaints of severe backache are mostly coming from youngsters especially girls

Dr Khalid, Medical professional

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them to avoid it.

He suggested some useful tips to avoid back pain. He recommended the use of table and chair while studying. He advised students to avoid sitting on the floor while studying and recommended use of straight bed or ‘charpai’ or spring bed instead of soft bed or mattress for sleeping. About the use of seat belt and driving seat he said it should neither be straight nor be too bending rather your body should be 5

> Students should use table and chair while studying > Students should avoid sitting on the floor while studying. > Straight bed or ‘charpai’ or spring bed should be used for sleeping instead of soft bed or mattress.

to 6 inches away from the wheel. He said that there are two types of back pain patients, the youth who suffer from back pain due to wrong posture and the elders who get back pain due to the enlargement of bones or due to dilution of the bones which is called osteoporosis in females and ortho-croptis

> Driving seat should neither be straight nor too bending and body should be 5 to 6 inches away from the wheel. > Excessive workout or no exercise at all also can cause back pain > Patients should use collar carefully in case of pain.

in males. He said that excessive workout or no exercise at all also can cause back pain and sometimes as a result patient complains of feeling cramps and disc displacement problems so this practice should also be avoided. He said in that condition patients should use collar carefully.