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"Use it or lose it" is the new approach to back pain. In the last few years, there has been a 1 change in the way doctors treat this most common disease. Weeks or months of rest in bed—the 2 method of treatment for so long—are now thought to be surely harmful. Muscles become soft, joints become 3 and what started out as a 4 acute condition quickly turns into a continuing disability. Far better, according to current thinking, is to put up with a little pain and get moving.
The change has not happened overnight. For years, some specialists have had an 5 feeling that bed rest was not the answer. But what finally put an end to 6 bed rest was a study of more than 200 patients who were treated for back pain in a clinic in Taxes. Not only did patients who had two days" bed rest do totally as well as those given seven days, they 7 only half as much time altogether 8 work.
As a result of the study, experts now recommend that 9 anyone with acute back pain should spend more than a few days 10 down. After that should come a program of gradually 11 exercise, probably accompanied by some 12 treatments such as massage, heat or ultrasound.
Because of hospital waiting lists, most people have to wait several weeks before receiving the treatment they need. Unfortunately this wait is often spent in bed or inactive for 13 of doing further damage to the back. It has been estimated that for every day an injured muscle is rested it loses at least one per cent of its 14 . Stay in bed for two or three weeks and it will be far 15 to rebuild a damaged muscle.