Back pain - Pain is back!

Apart from having a catchy and rhyming title, you might be wondering what am I going to write under this. And to tell you the truth, I also don't have much idea on what really to write except the simple fact that it was really painful!



(This is not me or mine. I look better! :p)

Do I have a history of back aches ? Hmmm... no, but it did visit me once before abt 2-3 yrs back, when I was at my home town (which was fortunate - no not the pain, but being @ home that time) Then, it was very severe, I was bed-ridden for a complete day or two without being able to move and Ayurvedic messages brought the pain to a closure that time.

This time, the pain was not that much and a couple of days rest and that Tiger balm reduced the pain. What particular reason would have prompted the pain to revisit ? Well, me being a software engineer it's a given that I don't exercise much ("Not much" reading - Not at all!). But recently, I started this good practice of walking back from my office to home. The distance is about 3 kms and it takes me around 25-30 mins. And this walk is done with a laptop on my back(or bag) And the weekend prior to that day, I had gone to play cricket, had played tennis and also had spent nice little time swimming around the pool after the tennis match.

I guess having to do all these activities, made by body to complain that "Boss, you need to relax, I'm not used to this!!!" I totally agreed, rested for a couple of days and now its ok.

I did a little googling on it and to my astonishment found that about 85% of the people do come across back pain atleast once in their life time. Have you ? Added to the fact that - back pain is the most prominent reason for an employee to take a sick leave. Hmmm... thats news for me, because most of my sick leaves are invested for fever and throat infection!

Signing off...