the.com/back pain
The body's way of billing you for every chair you've ever trusted.
means An ache or soreness in the back, usually from muscle or joint strain, that can range from a dull nag to a can't-get-out-of-bed emergency.
from Both halves are plain old Old English: 'bæc' meant the same thing it does now, and 'pain' arrived later via Old French 'peine' from Latin 'poena' — meaning punishment or penalty, itself from Greek 'poinē,' a fine paid for wrongdoing. So etymologically speaking, pain was literally a penalty before it was a sensation — which makes 'back pain' almost redundant with the essence above: language has been billing bodies for their posture since long before office chairs existed.
- usual suspect
- weak core, not a scary spine disease
- bed rest
- makes it worse, not better
- best fix
- movement, boringly enough
- imaging trap
- scans find 'damage' in pain-free people too