Eighty per cent of the population will experience a debilitating episode of back pain, the vast majority due to a mechanical problem known as subluxation, which occurs simply because you make the wrong move at the wrong time.
- Usually, it is a manoeuvre you have made many times before and will probably make a million times again. It can happen when flexing forward, extending backwards, rotating or bending to the side. We don't know why it happens but it causes a muscle, tendon, joint or even bone