The word "backaches" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to physical pain in the back. For example: "I have been dealing with backaches since I injured my back lifting weights."
If you're spending more time online, craving your computer, have gained or lost weight, are getting headaches, backaches and suffering carpal tunnel syndrome (the main symptoms of addiction, according to the centre), you'd better get saving.
As the bombing went on, people developed minor health complaints — headaches and backaches.
(Canker sores and many headaches and backaches are in this category).
He made a bed seven feet long for Robert Baruch, and cured Faith Baldwin of backaches by finding her the right resilliency.
Grateful consumers claim to have been cured of symptoms ranging from constipation and flatulence to abdominal pain, parasites, indigestion, hemorrhoids, acid reflux, impotence, headaches, backaches, acne, lethargy, candida, bad breath, bloating, mood swings, P.M.S., obesity, and food cravings.
Look for physical symptoms, too, because stress can cause problems like insomnia, backaches, headaches and chest pain, said Dr. Lorrie Elliott, associate medical director of the Center for Partnership Medicine, an executive health program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Proving that somebody does not suffer from disabling stress is even harder than proving that their backache is too bad for them to work.One option is to tighten the rules on what counts as disability, and to administer them vigorously.
Long periods of home-working even caused backache, it was discovered.
Just as rumours were swirling round Moscow of his imminent sacking, Mr Primakov retired to bed with an agonising backache, whereupon Mr Yeltsin snubbed him some more by appointing a former prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, as his special envoy for Yugoslavia.
Then he, oddly enough, also succumbed to backache, fetching up "indefinitely" in hospital.All highly entertaining, if Russia were not in dire need of steady leadership, both for curing its financial ills (see article) and over Yugoslavia.
Another common symptom is general malaise feeling run-down or always tired; others are headache, chronic low backache, rheumatism, abdominal discomfort, poor appetite, and constipation.
