Word: lumbago
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...that it must be consistent-not just for weeks or months or years, but for life. In a familiar pattern, many Americans start by doing too much in the mistaken hope of doing better. Exercise should lead to exhilaration, not to exhaustion or pain. Back aches, slipped disks and lumbago can affect people who overdo the famous Royal Canadian Air Force exercises. Even joggers can ask for trouble. "The distance some of them go scares me," says Dr. Richard Morrison, who presides over a heart-conditioning program for West Coast executives. "Long distances can make your knees arthritic or give...
...result, said Dr. Snorrason, the sitter's muscles and ligaments stretch and he becomes fatigued. Long periods in a conventional chair can cause lumbago (generalized pain in the loins), sciatica from pressure on the sciatic nerves, or even contribute to disk displacement resulting in extremely painful pinched nerves in the lower back...
Greece's King Paul has been ailing for some time. He recovered slowly from an appendectomy last May, and an illness officially diagnosed as lumbago forced him to cancel all recent public appearances. Last week, looking haggard and pained, Paul managed to attend the swearing in of the government of new Premier George Papandreou. That over, Paul abruptly took to his bed, named his only son, Constantine, 23, Regent of Greece, and temporarily stepped down from the throne to undergo a stomach operation...
...Galilee. What one man didn't know about music, the other didn't know about politics, but they got along fine. Yoga, confided Menuhin, is the best treatment for his slipped disc, and Ben - Gurion, coming head-over -heels again, told how he had cleared up his lumbago the same...
...Lumbago-lamed at his Texas ranch, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 79, reported that he was still "hurting some" but expected to be "jumping around soon." Sure enough, two days later, when grilled about rumors that he might resign the speakership-a post he has held twice as long as any predecessor-Mister Sam started jumping, gaveled down the motion with one word: "Idiocy...