![]() The only way to know for sure if you have COVID-19 is getting tested. Similarly, people with pneumonia can also have backache due to inflammation and infection throughout the torso. However, as backache can be caused by many factors, and even if you develop it in conjunction with nasal congestion, sneezing, coughing or fever, muscle ache can be indicative of other illnesses like flu. It’s important to note that having back pain alone doesn’t mean you necessarily have COVID-19. It is possible the cumulative effect of bad posture and extensive sitting down is finally manifesting in people’s bodies. It’s not clear from the research whether the scientists recorded which of the participants had actually ever had COVID-19 or not, but the correlation between more frequent back pain after the start of the pandemic has been seen across the world, from Italy to Brazil. Even when people haven’t had to work at home, they have been less mobile on the whole and many of us have spent more time sitting down than at other times in our life.Ī study from Malta of 388 people found that 30% of people had experienced chronic back pain pre-COVID-19 compared with 49% experiencing back pain since COVID-19 emerged, with the majority of the latter claiming that they never experienced back pain before the pandemic. The pandemic has confined many of us to our homes, with millions of us working in cramped conditions not ergonomically designed to ensure healthy backs. Sedentary lifestyle and working from home Women’s water burden rose as COVID lockdowns hit.Anxiety, depression and insomnia: the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.COVID-19 survivors are still at greater risk of heart attacks a year after infection.But myalgia has been a symptom right from the start of the pandemic and it doesn’t explain why backache is becoming much more common now. It could be that COVID-19 causes inflammation which, coupled with muscle pain, manifests as back pain, which is the most common musculoskeletal complaint. Generalised muscle pain or myalgia could be connected to backache. ![]() So far, it’s not entirely clear why people seem to be experiencing backache – which in some cases has been debilitating and caused limited mobility – so much more often when they get sick with COVID-19. ![]() On February 10, Tim Spector, the study’s principal investigator, said around one in five people with Omicron have back pain. Now, however, it ranks among the top 20 symptoms according to the Zoe COVID Symptom Study, in which hundreds of thousands of people log their symptoms every day across the UK. One in five people with COVID-19 have back painīack pain had not been a common COVID-19 symptom before Omicron. It’s important to note that having back pain alone doesn’t mean you necessarily have COVID-19, however, as back ache can be caused by many factors, and even if you develop it in conjunction with nasal congestion, sneezing, coughing or fever, muscle ache can be indicative of other illnesses like flu. This back pain has been described by some as intense period cramps, kidney stones or muscle spasms. Data from South Africa where the variant was first identified suggested that people who get Omicron often develop two sets of symptoms – a sore throat, nasal congestion, and a cough – and also muscle pain, especially low back pain. There are many symptoms you may have been expecting on getting COVID-19 – fever, cold-like symptoms or fatigue – but there’s one that you might not have expected: back pain.īack pain is now one of the key symptoms of Omicron, one of the main SARS-CoV-2 variants circulating.
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