James Laughlin and a co-host discuss why chronic pain is so common now. One in five people have it, and back pain disability has risen 50% in 30 years. They recommend 150 to 300 minutes of moderate exercise weekly, mostly because we sit too much and move too little.
Questions this video answers
One in five people.
150 to 300 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week (about 30–60 minutes per day).
Disability has risen by about 50% over the last 30 years.
You know, chronic pain now is one in five people, and a large percentage of that is because we're just not moving.
Well, actually, I've had some back issues in my time. My partner, Caroline, has some issues with her back. Often back pain. Disability has risen by something.
Like 50%.
In the last 30.
Years to become.
The number one disability, like the world's number one disability.
Why is that happening? If you're sitting for six hours a day, you get back pain. That's what the research shows. And most of us are sitting for double that. We drape muscle over our skeleton, and that is our human form, and we're just not paying enough attention to it. You know, we're missing three to six hours of movement that we used to get each day. We're supposed to be moving somewhere around 150 to 300 minutes of moderate intensity exercise a week. You know, half an hour to an hour a day.
I started to get interested about how much or how little I move. And there were times when I think, on average, I was doing about 1100 steps in a day. Right. Horrific. What are the tiny things we can do to make a big difference?
