Having to deal with a bad back is no fun and can be very painful. Over the years our backs just eventually wear out. This happens to about 80 percent of all people. I guess a lot depends on how much you use your back, on how long you got for it to wear completely out on you. I have worked several jobs over the years that involved heavy lifting or just constant lifting. I would experience back pain from time to time, but it always seemed to go away. I now work on the computer full time and I thought this would be a big break for my back pains. Not exactly!

I have found working on the computer 50 to 80 hours a week, can create its own problems with the back. The constant hunching over to get a better look at the computer screen puts a whole new kind of strain on the back. It is almost like this action is stretching the back and would seem to help it workout each day. Instead these long bending over looks at the monitor is causing a great deal of stress on my lower back and its becoming difficult to work with. I was hoping the pains would go away and I would eventually get my ailing back in shape. This hasn’t happened yet and the day to day pains have been going on for years.

If you suffer from back pains and currently have a physical job that involves a lot of lifting, you might want to think twice before moving to an office job or one that involves a lot of computer time. The leaning forward process can put just as much, if not more stress on the back and especially the lower part of the back. It seems the higher up the back pains are, the less they will affect you. It’s the bottom of the back that causes the most pains or at least that is what I have found to be true with the back pains I suffer from. I believe I need a good therapy program that can offset my daily bends. An exercise program for bad backs, where someone can balance out the daily stress they’re putting on their backs.

If you or someone you know currently has a bad back, maybe you can pass on some advice that helps them to make it from one day to the next. I know I would certainly be open for suggestions and willing to try pretty much anything, to help relieve the stress on my back pains, I get from being on the computer all day. It’s not really an option for me to rest or not be on the computer, since I do rely on my online earnings to pay the bills. I believe I could eliminate most of the pain, if I wasn’t on the computer so much each day and week. I just don’t really know of another job, that would pay as much as I earn online and relieve the stresses on my back.