New research shows a connection between low vitamin D and back pain in older women.

Here’s a quote from the study:

“Given that low vitamin D status is fairly prevalent in older adults and that there are significant functional consequences to untreated chronic pain, these findings argue strongly for querying adults about their pain and potentially screening older women with significant back pain for vitamin D deficiency,” Dr. Gregory E. Hicks of the University of Delaware in Newark and his colleagues write.

There’s more information coming out with regard to vitamin D being connected to various pain problems. There was a recent pilot study completed at a Multidisciplinary pain rehabilitation center. The study was call - Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Vitamin D Inadequacy among Patients with Chronic Pain

Here’s the conclusion of that study:

Conclusion: The prevalence and clinical correlates identified in this pilot study provide the basis for the assertion that vitamin D inadequacy may represent an under-recognized source of nociception [feeling pain] and impaired neuromuscular functioning among patients with chronic pain.

How about you? Have you noticed any reduction in pain by taking vitamin D?