2023-09-07 17:55:00
Every day, Didier sees around thirty patients. The youngest is 25 years old, the oldest 82 years old… Because today, back pain affects a large part of the population. “Now, we find patients younger and younger, since sedentary lifestyle begins more and more with smartphones and children who do less and less sport”explains Didier Koch, physiotherapist at the back school (hospital of the Citadel of Liège).
For almost 10 years, Clémence has had persistent pain in her lower back. A disease that changed her life, she tells us. “Before, there were days when I came home from work, I was on my couch, my back was blocked and I was crying. I did nothing at all, however, I am someone who loved to move. And with my job, I move all the time. But when I came home at night, sometimes I was so bad that I didn’t even cook, I stayed in my bed…”she says.
Low back pain is the most common back pain. Nearly 80% of people, of all ages, suffer from it or will suffer from it one day. “For a year, a year and a half, two years… It can, in fact, be very long and very inconvenient in a life when you work, you have an active life… Which makes you is unable to work or inconvenienced on a daily basis in his private life”develops Mylène Maigray, head of physiotherapists at the Citadel hospital in Liège.
Back pain is also the leading cause of absenteeism at work. An evil that costs hundreds of millions of euros to social security. Our country is practically at the top of the European ranking of health expenditure due to insufficient physical activity. “It is estimated that back pain, with all the associated costs added together, costs more to social security than AIDS, cancer and heart disease combined. So it really is a huge problem. talk regarding evil of the century”explained Gilles Goetghebuer, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Sport et Vie”, in the RTL info 13h.
Currently, it is estimated that 2 million Belgians suffer from low back pain.
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