12.21.2015
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Back pain occurs most often when we take or carry luggage improperly
Alert campaign that the weight of the luggage may damage the Brazilian Society column Column
Campaign warns against the weight of luggage for the column. The initiative is the Brazilian Spine Society and Infraero. The campaign videos show a apessoas making the wrong move to pick up the suitcase and then the correct way to take the weight. Back pain occurs most often when we take or carry luggage improperly.
On the subject, the Daily heard the orthopedic surgeon and member of the Brazilian Spine Society, Orlando Righesso Neto. He explains that notes many patients who seek it, as long as they took a suitcase at the airport treadmill and felt a pain in the back that has evolved.
It also explains that there are already statistics in other countries that control this type of injury, which count 50,000 cases a year, only in the column. Of course there are other types of damage in hands and feet, but the column is the main, because of the movement that a person makes to grab the suitcase on the treadmill.
According to the orthopedist, the risk starts already at home when the person gets the suitcase, by weight she puts in and then will carry it to the car, why people do the two worst positions for the column, which also generate hernia disc, which are bend and twist the column. Therefore, he advises to divide the weight into two baggage to avoid a serious problem column.
Follow the information and tips in this campaign with the Brazilian Spine Society, in this interview with Daily life with Inez Luiza Vilela, the National Radio of Brasilia.
Source: EBC
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