If you’re regularly affected by back pain, you’re not alone. In fact, back pain is one of the most common medical problems in Malaysia!
Four out of five adults in Malaysia will experience lower back pain at some point in their lives!
While this can come from injury, activity, or a few medical conditions, back pain is often attributed to work — be it poor posture or improper use of force, there are plenty of causes of back pain that you really shouldn't ignore.
As back pain can affect people of any age, for different reasons, let's investigate what causes back pain and how work injury back pains can be treated by physiotherapists!
There are three main factors or categories that you can classify back pain caused from work:
Exerting excessive force with your back muscles improperly. This is common when attempting to lift or move heavy objects
While they may not be particularly dangerous movements, repeating specific movements that involve twisting or rotating your spine can potentially trigger or worsen back pain
This is the most common cause for office workers — a 9AM to 6PM (or more) desk job is particularly stressful for your back especially if paired with poor posture
With that, here are some common work tasks or conditions that are the main culprits of causing or worsening back pain:
A physiotherapist will be able to take a look at the above factors and causes to help you to identify what's the main cause of your back pain!
Once it has been identified, you can get started with pain management as well as back pain recovery.
Your physiotherapy sessions will normally involve a range of muscle exercises, learning safe movement patterns and identifying unhealthy movements and habits from your everyday life that can contribute to back pain.
An example of this includes:
Apart from physiotherapy, taking small but meaningful steps to prevent or reduce back pain from work includes:
Back pain can seriously affect your quality of everyday life. At Well Rehab, we can help you recover and prevent from experiencing back pain or injury in the future with professional physiotherapy treatments.
As Malaysia's leading provider of physiotherapy services, we are the preferred, qualified and certified professionals that are trusted nationwide.
For more information about our therapies or services in Malaysia, you may contact us at +60 12 512 8487 or email
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