Mind Your Back News Today

While back pain is a common nuisance, and can go away with some rest, sometimes it can be dangerous and warrants seeing a doctor or even calling 999

The average working-age adult spends around 9.5 hours a day sitting down, which is very bad news for our backs. In fact, pain can become so severe it can even stop more than half of us from socialising. But thankfully some simple exercises can help make all the difference

Tributes are being paid to Roy Taylor who represented Ireland in the Eurovision with his band Jump The Gun in 1988 died yesterday following a battle with Motor Neuron Disease.

Physiotherapist Sammy Margo, who runs her own clinic in London, has revealed the four most likely causes and shared her tips for how to care for your back - and she stresses prevention is key.

More than one in five young adults said they mostly work from their bed when WFH, while one in six sit on the sofa. About one in 100 home-workers do so from the floor.

Speak Out Safely Launched in March 2013, the Speak Out Safely (SOS) campaign was intended to help strengthen protection for frontline staff and increase honesty and transparency in the NHS. The SOS campaign came about after the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust Public Inquiry report, which had highlighted the need to encourage staff to raise concerns or whistleblow. The hard-hitting report into the scandal had identified that workers had tried to speak up about patient safety concerns but had ...

History of Nursing Times: The 1990s and early 2000s Masthead of Nursing Times cover from the 1990s The 1990s and 2000s saw Nursing Times run many campaigns. In 1992 Nursing Times launched the Mind Your Back campaign, calling for nurses to have the right to be protected from back injury caused by inappropriate lifting and for full implementation of new EC rules on manual handling. Up to 3,600 nurses were leaving their jobs every year because of back injuries, at a loss of 1.3 million working d...