10 Simple Tips to Sleep Your Back Pain Away

Has waking up with unexplained back pain become a familiar start to your morning routine? If your back hurts and there was no heavy lift or accident that could have caused it, the problem may be your sleep habits.

Peter Lucchio, PsyD, a psychologist with the Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford HealthCare, says poor sleep hygiene can not only cause low back pain, but it can cause it to linger despite other interventions.

“When we have back pain, it can be difficult to imagine that our lifestyle may have contributed to the development or maintenance of the problem,” he says. “But, over the past 10 years, there has been growing evidence in the scientific literature of the role psychosocial factors (such as sleep) play in back pain.”

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