According to a new research, unexpectedly, acute episodes of low back pain are not linked to weather conditions such as temperature, humidity, air pressure or wind direction. In fact, there are several patients who are in an impression that weather impacts their pain symptoms.

Dr Daniel Steffens with the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Sydney, Australia. For the present research, 993 patients checked at primary care clinics in Sydney were recruited. Weather data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology were sourced for the duration of the study period.

Additionally known that the researchers compared the weather at the same time patients first noticed back pain due to weather conditions one week and one month in precedence of the onset of pain.  Results showed no association between back pain and temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind direction or precipitation.

Nevertheless, higher wind speed and wind gusts did slightly increase the possibility of lower back pain but the amount of increase was not clinically vital.   

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), nearly everyone experiences low back pain at some point in life. It makes low back pain it the most prevalent musculoskeletal condition and affecting up to 33 per cent of the world population at any given time. The research appeared in the journal Arthritis Care and Research.

(AW:SB)