Being Overweight Causes Back Pain

December 16, 2008 by soreback 

BODY WEIGHT WEIGHS ON BACK

People often have a hard time understanding why body weight causes so many various health problems.  After all, if you’re six inches taller than the average person you’re probably not suffering very much, so why should sixty extra pounds be an issue?

The truth is that while body weight is something that occurs naturally it’s still weight that you need to move around.  Our bodies are designed to push and carry a certain amount of weight but anything additional is going to cause problems.

Imagine having to carry around a ten-pound bowling ball with you wherever you go.  Your arms would get tired incredibly fast, your shoulders would get worn out and your entire body would ache.  Imagine that bowling ball being chained to your ankle – your feet and legs would be killing you just walking from your couch to the kitchen!

Well, an extra ten pounds of body weight is just like that bowling ball.  Your body is not designed to carry a lot of extra weight except what is healthy and natural for you.  Extra weight means more work for your muscles to hold that weight up and to move it around; this unnatural working of the muscles is not healthy in any way.

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This is a difficult concept for many people to grasp as we often think that our body is just designed to handle its own weight and its own concerns, but our body has limits.  You can’t lift 500 pounds no matter how much you might want to; if you can’t lift that much when it’s on a weight lifting bar, what makes you think your body can lift it when it’s in the form of body fat around your midsection?  If a small child stood on the small of your back you could tolerate that for only a few moments, but when someone is 50 or 60 pounds overweight it’s just like having your body carry that small child 24 hours every day.

Body weight is a common cause of back problems and as discouraging and distressing as it may be, and as defensive as some might get about their body weight, it’s a concern that needs to be addressed if one wants to be pain free.

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