i have lower back pain at work?

Question

i have lower back pain at work .when standing still becomes severe if i bend it seems to help any suggestions

Answer 1

Get a chair like the Leap if you have a desk job. If not, ask for an evaluation from your HR team on your working conditions. A padded pad or other things can be obtained if you stand a lot, etc.

Answer 2

Are you overweight? - if so then lose some weight.

The last thing you want to do is bend, you might snap. Buy your own chair, and bring it in to work and deliver your old chair to the health and safety person.

Stop going to the gym at lunchtime, and putting too many weights on the thigh pumping machine. I know that helps with my lower back strain problems.

If you are still playing prop forward, stop it now.

Are you a rubbish collector? If so do not all the refuse collection machines lift the rubbish these days, instead of damaging your back.

How about are you a milkman. If so, then bend with your knees and not your back.

It is like when you go skiing. Use your knees to absorb shocks, not your back. Bend your knees, do not keep them straight.

Answer 3

it may be sciatica - the sciatic nerve runs through the bones of your pelvis and into your legs. If it is being pinched and becomes inflamed it causes severe pain - bending opens the joints of your sacroiliac bones relieving the pain.
Go to your doctor who will diagnose the exact problem. In most cases the treatment will be anti-inflammatory drugs, and perhaps physiotherapy.
In the meantime watch your posture, and the advice above about lifting is correct - use your legs. Over the counter medication may ease the discomfort until you see the doctor. The pharmacist will be able to advise you as he has experience in this area.

Answer 4

Like with any medical question, your doctor can tell you more than the Yahoo!Answers crew can. I can offer this much: the human body is not designed (can I still say "designed" without being political?) to stay motionless for long periods, but much of the work environment that we make for ourselves keeps us mostly immobile. Learn to do some stretching and moving around at work. Be able to move your ankles, knees, hips and shoulders. I don't like most of the "cures" for back pain that traditional medicine offers like surgery and pain-killers. My preference is to let my body move the way it's supposed to.
Take a look at egoscue.com for more info on a movement-based approach. This might work as a link:
http://www.egoscue.com
and trying to ignore back pain (or masking it with drugs) will probably make it worse. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Hey i suffered that for 7 years...i tried the painkillers etc etc...
was worse when i bent over for a while like picking things up...when i straightened the pain was unbearable....then a bloke gave me the number of a chiropractor,i went to see him and he cracked my back 3 times.....cost £45 but guess what no more pain !! was like a miracle....that was 2 years ago and still no pain...look one up...quickly

Answer 6

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Answer 7

If you do a lot of sitting, it could be the style and the height of your chair. Get it checked out and get your company to buy you one thats more suitable. Does you're company have an occupational health section somewhere that you can see about this?

Answer 8

You could have a pinched nerve or a pulled muscle. Do you have pain that runs down either of your legs? If you do it could be sciatica. Go to a chiropractor and let him work on you.

Answer 9

see a doctor also make sure you have good posture at all times. Maybe it's a chair your sitting in that's not exactly right for you.

Answer 10

pain pills usually help me and i stand at my job all day too