The National center for Community Rehabilitation held a lecture about backaches, targeting 15 women of the Khanyounis governorate at the center's branch in Khanyounis

    The lecture came under the framework of community awareness program that targets all segment of the society, particularly women. The program is basically concerned with the most marginalized arrears of poor awareness in Gaza governorates.

    The lecture handled how backaches start, causes of backache and its types, and ways of prevention.

      Mrs. E'atimad Abu Shmais , a physiotherapist , pointed out that the most recent statistics manifested that more than 80% of people all over the world undergo severe pains at the lower back during their lives, and eight million people are attacked by lower backaches a year. She also presented a laconic background about anatomy of the back, using a sample to explain the bends of spine and to spot on the most vulnerable parts to backaches.

     Mrs. Abu Shmais pointed out that women are the most vulnerable to backaches due to the relation between the reproductive system and the lower back, and women are the most vulnerable to bending owing to their housing works, additionally to lifting the children for long times. Another reason to be raised ,  pregnancy plays a basic role in backaches for its influence on the spine and its ligaments.

 Afterwards, the lecture raised the ways of prevention that mainly depend on our awareness about the nature of our bodies and the mechanisms by which we utilize our bodies for everyday activities.

 Mrs. E'atimad displayed some sound attitudes of setting and standing, additionally to how to work at home in a preventive approach.

    At the end of the lecture, some pictures of exercises recommended to prevent backaches wherein some women performed such exercises practically. Importantly, the lecturer advised the women to walk twice a week in minimum in an effect to activate the blood circulation and to strengthen the back's muscles.

The solution for backaches mainly depends on the person his/her awareness about this problem .Mrs. Abu Shmais added.