Women with larger breasts are more likely to suffer backaches than those with smaller breasts, TnTn Hospital said Monday.

According to Cho Tae-yeon, chief of the network hospital specializing in spinal health, larger breasts could pull the torso forward and in the worst case cause a herniated disk. A herniated disk is a condition when the disk between two bones in the spine presses on the nerves around the backbone.

“One additional kilogram on the torso, especially in the chest area, could amplify the stress to the waist area up to 10 times, causing a disk disorder,” Cho said.

“For women with large breasts, whether they have received implants or not, doing regular exercise, such as stretching, to strengthen the disk area is needed,” he said.

(baejisook@heraldcorp.com)