Back Pain.
Risk Factors: The most common for health care professionals, dentists especially, is an awkward working posture adopted to perform routine procedures. Drastic posture changes to accommodate pediatric, geriatric, and other patients who have special difficulty getting in to a proper position, are an extreme aggravation. Other stresses are twisting, and turning the upper body; lifting; fatigue; other activities, sports, etc.
Possible Problems.
Lower back pain, sciatica, and herniated spinal disc can all stem from these stresses. There are many others.
Lower Back Pain.
Characterized, and apologies for the obvious, by pain in the lower back, usually a dull, chronic pain with periods of acute, intense pain, typically following an aggravating event. Many also experience a chronic feeling of stiffness and loss of mobility in the lower spine and surrounding region of tissues.
Causative factors are awkward static posture, bending and twisting, whole body vibration, over exertion, sudden, forceful movements, and heavy lifting with an incorrect posture.
Causative factors are awkward static posture, bending and twisting, whole body vibration, over exertion, sudden, forceful movements, and heavy lifting with an incorrect posture.