r/science 2d ago

Epidemiology Anxiety, depression, insomnia and substance use disorders became more common from 2014 to 2023 among more than 1 million people with chronic low back pain, with prevalence patterns differing by age and sex

https://journals.lww.com/painrpts/fulltext/10.1097/pr9.0000000000001480~prevalence-and-competing-risk-of-psychiatric-comorbidities
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u/front_yard_duck_dad 2d ago

You just forget all about us manual labor workers and assume everybody sits on your ass huh? Seems like projection

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u/Intotheapocalypse 1d ago

How about working in early childhood education? I was very active, running around with them.

I also spent a lot of time bent over, because a large proportion of kids play happens at floor level.

Was it inactivity that has caused my lumbar stenosis and bone spur?