 Hi, I am Dr. Vidyadara here, head of the department and consultant spine surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. See spinal problems, not everything can be prevented like say scoliosis or tumors or infections. I don't think you can actually prevent, but the commonest ones are back pain and neck pain, which are totally preventable problems because as you know pain is a mixture of both physical injury component and psychological expression of it. It is not purely physical, not purely psychological, sometimes physical component is more, sometimes psychological component is more. But if you see in the outpatient department more people, more and more people coming with lot of psychological stress. Stress in the sense, you know it is the extremes of emotions. We don't have any normal emotions anymore. We are either too happy, too sad, too anxious, too apprehensive, too angry, too fearful, everything is too much. Nothing in medium levels and this causes stress on the brain and once the brain gets heated up, all the organs of the body starts misbehaving. You'll start feeling dizzyness, giddyness, breathlessness, chest pain, you know neck pain, back pain, acidity, constipation. You name it, it can come because of stress. Now, having said that, people go for one problem, one doctor, symptom specific doctors like me, who deal with only one one symptom and even at the end even say one guy gives three tablets, patient will be taking these many medicines in the morning, these many in the afternoon and these many in the night. So you'll have a patient who becomes a patient after taking the medicines on a longer term. So to prevent this, first you need to do lifestyle modifications so that you live more happier.