What is it about?

This paper is about the importance of having a healthy lifestyle (healthy eating, physical activity, low drinking and no smoking) and the chances of getting pain in the neck or the back

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Why is it important?

Neck and back pain are very common conditions among the general population, many people go on sick leave due to them and have thereafter a poor quality of life

Perspectives

Understanding that lifestyle is important for neck and back pain may help to understand this problem and has the potential of being targeted for prevention strategies

Oscar Pico Pico-Espinosa
Karolinska Institutet

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This page is a summary of: Healthy lifestyle behavior and risk of long duration troublesome neck pain or low back pain among men and women: results from the Stockholm Public Health Cohort, Clinical Epidemiology, October 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/clep.s145264.
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