Exciting new journal
13 Jan 2010
A new quarterly journal aimed at professionals who help people with back pain
'Exciting' new journal published by BackCare Charity
A new quarterly journal aimed at professionals who help people with back pain is being published by BackCare, Britain’s only charity devoted solely to promoting healthier backs.
Its aim is also to reach those in the field involved with creating policy or have experience of the effects of policy on real people, said Dr Andrew Auty, head of the charity’s trustees.
| “At BackCare we have long been aware of the great diversity of views held by those concerned with back pain. “Consensus is rare but by itself lack of concensus is not a bar to providing real help to those who need it.” |
He added:
| ”We hope that in reading these articles you will understand more of the roles, beliefs, knowledge and aims of other people in this field and will better understand what the back pain sufferer encounters and tried to manage for themselves.” |
The new venture will be available both in hard copy and electronic format via BackCare’s website in order to reach as wide an audience as possible, with an initial target circulation to over 150,000 professionals.
Topics covered in the first 40-page issue include various types of chronic and sudden back pain, coping with pain, chiropractic and back pain, testing and training lumbar spine muscles, managing musculoskeletal problems, research news, and back pain and work.
Sash Newman, Chief Executive of BackCare, said:
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”We have decided on this exciting new publication because back pain is so common. We feel the need to spread the message to as large an audience as possible that help is available. “Using the internet we can reach many more thousands of people and so achieve our aim.” |
It is estimated that as many as four out of every five adults (80%) will experience back pain at some stage in their life.
Sash added:
| ”The objective is also to bring the sector together, enabling all the different disciplines to showcase their work, research, case studies, outcomes and ideas in one inter-disciplinary publication. “Whilst we may not always all agree, it is important to start and maintain a dialogue that encompasses all professionals involved in back pain, so that we are aware of what is happening within the back pain arena.” |
In the UK the condition affects 30 million people every year – over 2.5 million people have chronic back pain on any single day and more than 1.2 million have pain so severe that they are disabled by it, making it the nation’s leading cause of disability.
| “We want as much feed-back as possible on the new journal,” said Sash. “We are urging readers to register via our website and give us their views.” |