While back schools typically advocate specific exercises, none of these has any scientific proof of effectiveness, even in persons with back pain. People aren t motivated, or are differently motivated. A back school addressing prevention is naive, since most people already have backaches. They ve learned their own habits, and have been taught other things, sometimes contradictory. Those who don t yet have a back ache can t relate to the problem.
People can t change their whole life for their back.
The change of habits, physical energy and concentration which back school recommends are substantial. When one thinks of the difficulty people have with deadly habits such as smoking, it is easy to see that changes as a result of back school are unlikely. Back school teaches people to blame. In the minutes after an unavoidable back ache occurs, back school teaches the person to think of why it occurred. If someone else messed up.