At least some Good News for back Pain sufferers

No, sex does not give you back pain

If you are avoiding sexual encounters only because you think your back goes for a toss after the act, think again. A study confirms that sexual activity does not trigger lower back pain. Researchers at the George Institute for Global Health, Australia, interviewed around a thousand people about what they believed triggered their back pain to evaluate the accuracy of their perceptions of its cause. But contrary to popular opinion, sexual activity was not a major trigger, with only three people nominating it as the cause of their pain, Sydney Morning Herald reported.

‘They weren’t afraid of talking about sexual activity but they really didn’t identify sexual activity as being a possible cause of back pain and they were spot on,’ said senior researcher professor Manuela Ferreira. People who blamed an incident that had occurred weeks or months before they felt pain, those who could not remember and those who said they had just woken up with the pain were considered not to know what had triggered their pain.

If you are avoiding sexual encounters only because you think your back goes for a toss after the act, think again. A study confirms that sexual activity does not trigger lower back pain. Researchers at the George Institute for Global Health, Australia, interviewed around a thousand people about what they believed triggered their back pain to evaluate the accuracy of their perceptions of its cause. But contrary to popular opinion, sexual activity was not a major trigger, with only three people nominating it as the cause of their pain, Sydney Morning Herald reported.

‘They weren’t afraid of talking about sexual activity but they really didn’t identify sexual activity as being a possible cause of back pain and they were spot on,’ said senior researcher professor Manuela Ferreira. People who blamed an incident that had occurred weeks or months before they felt pain, those who could not remember and those who said they had just woken up with the pain were considered not to know what had triggered their pain.

Here is the link to the original article from The Health Site which has many other interesting articles on Health and Fitness

http://www.thehealthsite.com/news/no-sex-does-not-give-you-back-pain/