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Backaches

About 80% of the population suffers from the “ache of the century”. There is not therefore only one but many types of backaches that we can learn to differenciate.

Backache, often defined as a sickness of those who suffer, is in reality a symptom. The back is a region located between the neck and the buttocks, but the pain felt is most of the time assimilated to lower back pain.

There are many types of backaches :

Lower back pain is a pain located at the lumbar vertebrae level and can be felt up to the buttocks, behind the thighs or behind the knees. It is the most well-known backache. This pain is provoked by a natural aging of the spinal column, but also due to habits or daily actions: bad posture, violent sport for the spinal column, overweight, stress, etc.

Less known, the sciatic neuralgia – commonly known as sciatic – is an affection that provokes shooting pain along the sciatic nerve. It is usually due to slipped disk: the sciatic nerve, compressed by an intervertebral disk is damaged, and leads to a pain that principally attains the buttocks and the thighs. This problem usually occurs around the forties, but can be seen from time to time with teenagers and the old persons.

Scoliosis corresponds to a deformation of the spinal column that is found laterally bent to the right or the left (thoracic scoliosis), or even on both sides (lumbar-dorsal scoliosis). We know today that it is not the consequence of bad habits (heavy back bag, bad posture, etc.) but a sickness. Scoliosis, whose cause is still unknown, happens with children and teenagers and affects especially girls.

Cyphosis, another deformation of the spinal column, can also become painful. From a side view, the back seems round or bent. Then again, its origin is still unknown, even if we suspect aggravating factors such as intensive practice of sports, obesity or fast growth.

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In every case, only a clinical examination by a medical doctor can determine the exact origin of a backache.


Le dos est sollicité en permanence :

Pour vous lever d'un lit. Ne vous tournez pas en torsion en jetant les pieds hors du lit alors que vous êtes toujours allongé. Redressez-vous dans le lit, pliez les jambes, sortez-les hors du lit : vous êtes assis, il ne vous reste plus qu'à vous relever.

Apprenez à porter des charges correctement. Ce sont vos jambes qui doivent travailler, votre dos ne doit pas se cambrer ou se plier en forçant sur la charge.  Pour ne pas vous éreinter, adoptez une posture adéquate en fléchissant les jambes plutôt que le buste. Quand vous le pouvez, essayez d'équilibrer les charges de chaque côté du corps.


Simple advices for healing

Every day, our back is treated roughly. However, a few simple gestures and good habits can help us reduce the pain, even make it disappear.

Invest in a good bed: a firm but not too strong mattress, 100% latex, put on a batten base. Benefit from latex rectangular pillows and change your bed every 10 years.

Adopt an adequate posture. At home as well as at the office, take the habit to sit straight with your two feet flat on the ground, without crossing your legs and with your forearms on the desk. Adjust the height of your seat to ensure that your thighs are horizontal.


- Il est indispensable de ne pas rester assis plus de 2 heures d'affilée. Faites un petit tour de façon à faire bouger votre bassin.
- Toutes les heures, mettez votre bras gauche au dessus de votre tête, votre avant-bras posé dessus. Attrapez le poignet gauche avec la main droite et tirez pendant 20 secondes. Faites le mouvement 3 fois d'un côté et 3 fois de l'autre.
- Descendez 2 étages en pensant bien à mettre votre bassin vers l'avant. Puis remontez ces mêmes deux étages en serrant les fesses.
- Pour détendre votre dos, restez assis et penchez-vous en avant, votre poitrine sur vos genoux, les bras pendant le long des jambes, la tête fléchie vers l'avant.

When working on the computer, you need to seat correctly. Put yourself at 50 or 70 cm from the screen, which should be lightly inclined to the back.

You are seated at the right height if your elbows form a right angle when you are typing and if your screen is at the level of your eyes.

The computer screen should not face any light source or window as light is reflecting and is dazzling you.

Your knees should be horizontal and your feet ideally on a footrest.





bonne position assise devant un ordinateur

Avoid wearing high heels shoes which tend to throw your body off balance. Use flexible and comfortable shoes with low heels. Some soles can improve the dampness.

Learn to carry charges correctly. To avoid tiredness, adopt an adequate posture by flexing your legs and not your waist. Try to equilibrate the charges on each side of your body if you can.

Do the housework intelligently. Use a telescopic broomstick and squat down to clean the dust from beneath the furniture.

Use a massaging equipment to soothe your pain. Its vibrations have a relaxing effect and its percussive movement sooth muscular tensions. Ask for your doctor’s advice in case of an acute or chronic backache.
The lack of physical activities and a prolonged seating position are two main factors in the emergence of backaches. In brief: move!


Mal de dos due à une grossesse. Près de la moitié des femmes enceintes souffrent du dos. Pas de mystère, le poids du ventre augmente, tandis que les hormones contribuent à la distension des muscles abdominaux et au relâchement ligamentaire. Si le bébé repose sur le ventre, c'est bien le dos qui en supporte tout le poids. Naturellement, il se cambre davantage, et plus le ventre s'arrondit, plus le centre de gravité se déplace vers l'avant, plus la tension dorsale s'intensifie. Le ventre en avant, les mains au creux des reins et le buste en arrière, tout est réuni pour accentuer la cambrure et épuiser le dos.

Debout, tenez-vous bien droite et pensez régulièrement à lutter contre la cambrure excessive de votre dos. Pour cela, basculez votre bassin vers l'arrière, afin que le bas du dos soit le plus droit possible. En position assise aussi, maintenez votre dos bien droit, calé contre le dossier de la chaise. Privilégiez la position assise en tailleur, qui permet un bon alignement : fesses calées, bassin bien orienté et dos bien droit, sans être tassé.
Durant toute la grossesse, puis lors de l'accouchement, les muscles abdominaux et vertébraux sont fortement sollicités. Ainsi, avant, pendant et après une grossesse, entraînez vos muscles et ligaments. Pratiquez une activité physique douce mais régulière : marche, stretching, gymnastique douce, yoga et natation. Cette dernière activité est particulièrement recommandée.






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