Banish your back pain with these six handy hacks

From getting up from your seat every hour and moving for five minutes to doing regular strengthening exercises and setting up a  strict bedtime routine, there's plenty you can do to ease your aches   

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Back pain causes misery for up to 91% of Ireland’s adult population at some point in their lives, yet despite its prevalence, many of us still don’t know how best to deal with what is often a debilitating and chronic problem.

“Myths and misconceptions about back pain and its treatments are so widespread,” says Fiona Wilson, professor in physiotherapy at Trinity College Dublin. “It means that often people are not doing the things that could really help to alleviate their problem.”