US EditionOne Way to Reduce Risk of Low Back Pain? Walk More, Study Says
- On June 17, 2025, Norwegian researchers found that adults aged 20 and older who walked at least 78 minutes each day were less likely to experience chronic low back pain.
- This finding arose from analyzing accelerometer data collected between 2017 and 2019 from about 11,200 adults without prior low back pain in the Trøndelag Health Study.
- The study showed a dose-dependent relationship where walking about 100 minutes per day reduced chronic low back pain risk by 23%, and power walking also offered lesser protection.
- Lead author Rayane Haddadj explained that the risk decreased as people increased their walking time, with the protective effect continuing up to around 100 minutes each day before plateauing; these results were published in JAMA Network Open.
- Researchers concluded that public health policies promoting walking could reduce chronic low back pain incidence but emphasized that further studies are needed to confirm causality.
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The association between physical activity and low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
The aim of this review was to investigate the association between total and domain-specific physical activity (PA) and non-specific low back pain (LBP) in adults. Seven databases were searched for cohort and cross-sectional studies. Pooled estimates of the association of medium and high levels PA and LBP, using the generic inverse-variance method with fixed- and random-effects models were calculated. Twenty-four studies (15 cohort and nine cross…
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