Amidst today’s busy life and bad lifestyle, a very scary news has come to light. According to the recent report of the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of back pain patients across the world is increasing at lightning speed. The report estimates that by the year 2050, about 843 million (ie more than 84 crore) people around the world will be suffering from the serious problem of lower back pain. If we analyze this data as a reporter, then this situation is going to become a big global health challenge in the coming time, which can make people physically helpless.

Women and people above 50 are most at risk

According to the data of the World Health Organization, till the year 2020, about 61 crore people around the world were suffering from this problem, but now this figure is rapidly moving up the graph. Experts say that the risk of back pain increases significantly with increasing age. Generally, this problem is seen most in people between 50 to 55 years of age. Another important thing that has come to light in this report is that the problem of lower back pain is more common in women than in men.

What is lower back pain and why is it affecting mental health?

Lower back pain is actually a sharp or dull pain that occurs between the lower ribs (ribcage) and hips. This pain can bother you continuously for a few days to several months. Due to this, not only is there great difficulty in getting up, sitting and walking, but sleep at night also becomes completely disrupted. Due to suffering this pain for a long time, the mental health and efficiency of the patients is being adversely affected.

This pain is divided into two categories

According to physicians and WHO, back pain can be mainly divided into two parts:

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  Specific Back Pain: This pain occurs due to some specific medical reason, such as a serious disease in the spinal cord, fracture of the spinal cord, or pain due to any other internal organ disease of the body spreading to the back.

  
  


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  Non-Specific Back Pain: There is no specific disease behind this pain, rather it is mainly caused by sitting in the wrong way, working in front of the computer at one place for hours and physical inactivity. Nowadays, most of the people are suffering the most from this second type of pain.

  
  

If lifestyle is not improved in time, then this problem will make its place in every house in the coming years.