How to deal with back pain in the elderly?

As people get older, their health goes downhill, especially common geriatric diseases such as arthritis, osteoporosis and degenerative changes of the spine, which are more likely to lead to back pain in the elderly. For back pain people will always explain this way “people are old, are so”. In fact, it is not necessary to have back pain when you get old, as long as you improve your lifestyle and diet a little, you can relieve the pain symptoms and say goodbye to back pain. The following will be for the elderly back pain to give some advice: 1, participate in appropriate sports, adhere to the exercise can enhance the strength of the bone and bone mass. And keep your body flexible, not so stiff, can largely prevent the occurrence of osteoporosis. For example, playing tai chi, dancing and so on. 2, usually more sunshine. The ultraviolet rays in sunlight can cause a series of reactions in the body to form active vitamin D, thus promoting calcium absorption. 3, moderate rest: if the work requires a relatively long time, about 20 minutes or so to get up and do a simple stretching exercise and then continue, so as to avoid the muscles in a state of tension for a long time, you can get the opportunity to relax. 4, daily affairs such as laundry and cooking, the operating platform should be adjusted to the waist above the position of a little bit, do not let the stooping posture to avoid excessive continuous stretching of the back muscles to avoid sprains as far as possible. Lift the object with the knees and feet squatting instead of using the waist, try to bring the object close to the body. 5, sweeping, mopping will appear when the action of bending, we can choose to use a longer handle of the tool, try to use the elbow joint action to compensate for the angle of bending needed. 6, sitting and lying down, behind the best backrest or other things to support when you can reduce the burden on the back muscles, try to sleep on a hard bed. 7, take in balanced nutrition Maintain a proper weight, lose excess weight, because the body may be too heavy to increase the burden on the lower back. 8.Don’t smoke. Smoking may cause damage to the spinal discs. 9, Stay optimistic and learn to relax. Because stress may make back pain worse. If we usually pay more attention to these points, I believe it can help us to stay away from and relieve low back pain. Improve the quality of life in our old age.