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your spine filing a complaint about every decision since you started walking upright
means A persistent or recurring pain felt in the back, especially the lower back.
from A transparent compound of "back" and "ache," both venerable English words. "Back" descends from Old English "bæc," the body's rear surface, with cousins across the old Germanic tongues. "Ache" comes from Old English "acan" (to hurt), and once the verb "ache" and noun "ache" were spelled differently — the spelling "ache" we use today was reportedly influenced by a mistaken belief that the word came from Greek "akhos" (pain), though it didn't. Glue the two together and you get exactly what it says: a back that aches.
- global champ
- leading cause of disability worldwide
- evolution's bill
- upright posture stresses a once-horizontal spine
- often mysterious
- most cases never get a clear diagnosis
- rest backfires
- prolonged bed rest worsens recovery
- phantom signal
- pain intensity rarely matches actual damage
lower back pain epidemic — affects 619 million people globally according to 2020 global burden of disease study
occupational back injury — leading cause of workers compensation claims in us, costing $50 billion annually