Low Back Pain: Is it bad to bend over at the waist?
For many years, the prevailing notion has been that the safest way to lift objects off the floor is to bend the knees and keep the back straight, as shown in the icon below. However, this general guideline, which does not deal with each case separately, does not seem to have reduce the incidence of low back pain. On the contrary, its indiscriminate implementation has created a subgroup of people who have now lost the ability...