Commuting Is Hard on the Back

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3-4-2008 10:40 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6316fe33-4a0a-4797-9f4c-594399172151/46F63CD2-7576-4A6B-9E2D-753D4F71BC8A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nbc10.com/news/15455490/detail.html" href="http://www.nbc10.com/news/15455490/detail.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nbc10.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbc10.com/news/15455490/detail.html"><H1 class="Headline">Car, Commute Could Be Causing Back Pain</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbc10.com/news/15455490/detail.html">The daily commute can be a tedious nightmare for area drivers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbc10.com/news/15455490/detail.html">"I think we all start to see these reports that our commutes are just getting longer and longer, and because of this, I think people are finding they have more instances of low back pain simply because they're in the car so much longer," back specialist Dr. Jeff Phelps said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbc10.com/news/15455490/detail.html">The cartilage in the spine is like an organic shock absorber. The vibrations of vehicles can eventually wear that cartilage out.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nbc10.com/news/15455490/detail.html">"It's not unlike taking a piece of metal or a spoon and repeatedly bending that spoon back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, until that spoon fails," Phelps said. "I think the majority of people generally complain of just a core, uncomfortable tightness in their lower back after they've been in the car for 30, 45 minutes, or something like that."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/46F63CD2-7576-4A6B-9E2D-753D4F71BC8A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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