Jenn Suhr has recently been plagued by one nagging ailment after another, dealing with an Achilles injury, a gluten allergy that has caused sometime-debilitating sickness and lowerbackproblems.
Wearing a stiff corset around the lower torso while playing a round of golf may help prevent painful lower-back problems, a common complaint of golfers.
Elsewhere the research showed that driving on long journeys to visit relatives or take the family for a day out can lead to lowerback pain and neck problems.
On the other side are doctors, many of them pain medicine specialists, who believe narcotics can be used safely on a long-term basis by patients with problems such as lowerback pain.