Having studied the subject amongst ergonomic subject in my dear college time, i wasn't realized of the real danger and the prevalence of this disease. I'd bumped into those having treatment for such pain, but haven't really had it on top of my head until a week ago a dearest colleague having had to get a full bed rest for almost 2 weeks due to...Back pain.

It's not mere sprained muscle in your back easily alleviated using Salonpas!. It's much more severe than that. It involves the most fragile yet the most important and complex part of our body. Of course! all our senses are hubbed in this elongated lumbar of ours...a single click could mean thousands of nervous jammed. It's the part that keeps our brain-un-scattered, have it integrated to all of our limbs.

After discussing w/ some fellows. I've heard many many many stories of back pain occurring to them, and their relatives and friends. I was not expecting it.

The numbers are staggering: There’s an 80 percent chance that, at some point in your life, you’ll suffer from severe back pain.

Wheeww!! Hell that's such an occurrence, 80%! but then, H o w w e a r e s o f r a g i l e!! Anyway, After several doctor visit and MRI scan, my colleague recognized that some of her disks got broken, in this case, either bulging, protruding, or herniated disks. I wouldn't ask for more detail at that time I asked, though..This case of broken disks occured to 90% of back pain occurance. Having the image of gum leaking outside its borrows screech my teeth. *sigh

It is true to say that the prevalence is getting higher as degeneration occurs in aging people. True. But some of my friends are already having the problem. I'm talking about my twenty-something friends! Hm... What makes this disease is more diffused to more and more young people nowadays?

One suspicious idea is that this disease is in fact not purely physical. As complex as it was hubbed to our neuron system and brain, some says that sometimes It’s a problem suited for psychologists and neuroscientists, not surgeons. 90% prevalence is that the pain is temporal and the broken disk would alleviate itself after 7 weeks and the patient can go back to their daily life. in 10% it would get worse and more chronic. So, having said the hypothesis, maybe only with the power of mind, about how you perceive the pain, you slain the demon.

Hopefully, having acknowledge he danger and our proneness to this disease would increase our awareness, and hopefully would trigger our prevention act avoiding the same. Sport would certainly help. The most effective perhaps Yoga Pilates...the one that makes you 'fe e l t h e l o o n g o f y o u r b a c k ....' as you heal in and out posing eloquently in cobra-pose... heard that this kind of yoga is focusing on our bones, making our lumbar more energized one time and another,.... or running, swimming and aerobic that it increases the density of your bone..., and adding more back stroke surely would strengthen the muscle of your back, which is equally important as it protects the disks of you lumbar...as buffer to shocks and resistants...

Anyway the ultimate is to know the limit of, to care and appreciate what He has given you out of this precious brief life of ours.....our Body, Brain, and what connects them all, our Back.