Swimming could be an effective treatment for chronic back pain, research has found.
More than 10million Britons are estimated to suffer back pain each year, with lower back pain the leading cause of disability.
Treatments range from physiotherapy to anti-inflammatory pills. But research shows up to nine in ten chronic back pain patients see little relief from non-surgical therapies.
Now researchers from the Spinal Pain Research Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, say they may have found a better way to relieve back pain – swimming.
They created two groups from 76 patients aged 26 to 74 who had suffered lower back pain
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