These days, a lot of people suffer from lower back pain problem. Lower back pain can have great effects on your daily activities. For instance, muscle spasms as a result of back strain can be so excruciating that persons suffering from it will find it difficult to walk or even stand.

There are no real cures at present. So we have to endure daily episodes in silence, interrupted work and sleep and stuffing our cabinets with painkillers.

Prevention is the best medicine for back pain. So prevent is what we should do. And what better way to prevent this condition than to identify the causes of low back pain and see if we can find ways to avoid it.

The most common reasons for back pain problem: too much sitting around and less walking about.

Just to get an idea, think of the usual workday that you spend as an office worker - assuming you work in an office.
"You get up in the morning, get dressed, have breakfast and take a long drive to work. At work, you sit at your desk almost all day long. Then you take your lunch, most probably sitting down. Back at the office, you spend a few hours more at your desk then take a drive back home. When at home, you either sit on the couch and watch TV or sit at your home desk and even take your dinner in the front of the idiot box."

Well, have you noticed something that what is the common activity that you do most as an office worker -too much sitting, of course! Well, that is exactly the culprit that causes lower back pain or even upper back pain.

On one hand, where all the modern technological marvels has made our lives easier by reducing the manual chores to a minimum, at the same it has made us lazier and unhealthy, by allowing us more comfort and less work.

Hence, all this comfort has brought us more pain than relief in terms of our bad backs, especially lower backs that handles the most body weight and lazy limbs. Walking and cycling, which used to be the most common method of travelling to and from work has now become an alien concept to many in this day and age.

Lack of these simple, and once common activities have made our bodies less healthy and hence, more injury-prone. Too little activity reduces the muscle strength and suppleness in the spinal vertebrae, making them susceptible to injury and pain.

Many lower back problems can be prevented completely if you just learn how to do something correctly and then take your time doing it. Instead of bending over to pick something up, bend at your knees and lift.

Hence, the only way to reduce the chances of incurring lower backs pain or even upper backs pain is more exercise and less sitting or even lying down. Exercise helps built muscle mass and bone density. Without either, our body becomes more and more susceptible to harm and injury.