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Find out how flexible you areBack pain can be a very debilitating experience and often sufferers seek out conventional and herbal medicines to relieve the pain. However, there are alternatives ways of alleviating back pain and even preventing it from occurring in the first place. Gentle exercises can loosen inflamed muscles and alleviate stiffness and discomfort. In this page, our muscle and joint advisor describes the best exercises to practice to ease your particular type of back pain.
Back pain is a common condition which can be very disabling. Pain experienced can be very intense and debilitating, or for others, constant and chronic. People can go through long periods without any pain in the back, only to be crippled by sudden, acute episodes of pain.
Improving the strength and flexibility of the back and the rest of the body can help reduce the chances of these episodes occurring. There are back pain exercises for you to try when you are well and relatively free from pain. Some rules:
Lower back pain is the most common type of back pain and it is often caused by prolonged bad posture. Exercises will loosen any muscles which have become tight or inflamed in order to ease your pain.
Lie flat on the floor on your back with your arms in a comfortable position alongside the body:
Kneel on all fours with your back as straight as possible. Your knees should be under your hips and your hands under your shoulders:
Those experiencing upper back pain can benefit from similar exercises. Start by standing facing a large empty wall. Your feet should be a shoulder width apart:
Lie on your stomach on a firm surface:
The exercises described above are to relieve specific types of back pain. However, generally keeping active will go a long way towards easing and preventing back pain. Exercises such as walking, swimming or other forms of aquatic exercise are particularly effective. It is worth taking the time to incorporate these types of exercise into your day, even if you are simply jumping off the bus a stop early and walking the rest of the way.
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