Experts share the exact muscles you should work and exercises you should do to reduce (and prevent) common back pain and injuries.

SCREEN SCROLLING, DESK sitting, kid schlepping—modern life can batter and mangle your back, unless you use these strategies to safeguard it. But first, it's good to know something about why pretty ...

Findings of a real-world study confirm guidelines that recommend physical therapy as first-line treatment; it has a slight edge over cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Back pain affects hundreds of millions worldwide, but new research shows that small, consistent lifestyle changes can make a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Physician who writes about the rising rates of cancer in young adults. Back pain is the world’s leading cause of disability, ...

A muscle spasm could mean more than pain in your back — it could also hurt your ears. Despite being the leading cause of disability worldwide, many people with lower back pain suffer in silence, ...

A hormone traditionally used to treat bone loss may hold the key to stopping chronic back pain at its source, according to a new study. Chronic back pain is often linked to the deterioration of spinal ...

A sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial (SMART) found that people with chronic low back pain experienced slight ...