Postural hygiene to fight back pain

Radio France International health and wellbeing

January 31, 2019

Back pain becomes a common disease, even among young people. One of the reasons is the eight hours spent at the office. In France alone, a study found that 80% of the population would suffer from an episode of back pain before age 40. Promoting postural hygiene is essential to prevent this disease that can become chronic.

Back pain becomes in the evil of our century. The sedentary lifestyle the hours spent in front of the television but also the work in front of the computer explain the increase of this health problem. The man is made to walk, move continuously and staying several hours in the same position causes problems especially in the spine.

Back pain starts with little discomfort that appear irregularly before degenerate into chronic pain. In fact, back pain is the consequence of a set of factors, not only the posture itself adopted in front of the computer, but also the hours we spend sitting, our food, exercise or lack of physical activity.

It is recommended to take several breaks during our working hours to get up, walk, move our body and prevent the spine from "collapsing". Also practice some disciplines that promote stretching as Pilates, yoga or gymnastics.

Start Percko

In France, the start-up Percko, founded in 2015 by two engineers, in collaboration with doctors and physiotherapists, designed a range of products that help improve posture or protect back muscles during certain movements.

Your products made of shirts with mechanical tensioners They have been adopted by thousands of people and have won several awards in the field of technological innovation.

Your Line Up Shirt who is put under the clothes, it seems, through his turnbuckles, to remember the person to stay straight, and so, Exercise the back muscles.

Other variants of this shirt are for sportsmen or with a stronger structure, such as a harness, to protect the back in the case of people whose jobs require an effort for the back.

Respondent: David Gherson, of the French company Percko, specialized in the field of back pain.

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