More About Lower Back Pain
Friday September 8, 2006
I recently posted a new article about Exercise and Back Pain as well as a new Lower Back Workout and a Seated Stretching Routine to help deal with chronic lower back pain.
Some of our other guides have some great ways to deal with lower back pain as well, starting with specific exercises you can do to strengthen and stretch the back. One is the pelvic tilt, which seems so simple, you may wonder if it's worth doing. Our Back and Neck Guide convinces us otherwise in her latest article, Pelvic Tilts. You can then get detailed instructions for how to do them from our Yoga Guide's step-by-step, How to Do a Pelvic Tilt.
Work this into your daily exercise or stretching routine and keep track of how your back feels each day. If you're following some of the other suggestions from my Exercise and Back Pain article, you may start to feel some improvement within just a few days or weeks.
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Useful info on dealing with back pain thro’ exercise. I wish someone had told me this years before they did - I spent 20 years with back problems before I was shown exercises to help prevent them and strengthen my back. It really does work.
I’ve e-mailed Paige and a few others about my difficulty in just doing this “simple” exercise. My therapist has shown me a few times, I’ve tried to find good instructions on the net and in periodicals, and the bottom line is that I’ve not found instructions that truly tell me how to do it. Rock my hips backwards? How. If it means “suck in my abs”, then it should just say that.
I’m a smart man and it’s not “simple” to me. In fact, I was trying very hard to do a pelvic tilt as instructed by my therapist and I re-injured my disk. If I can recover from this latest set-back, I want to do what it takes to avoid this in the future. However, nothing I’ve found in print has been very helpful to a beginner. Please try to use simpler language for real beginners. Thanks.
Good article. I have spent many years with back pain
This was really good information. I am a physical therapist and often access the web to see what is out there. I have so many patients tell me of varying information they find on the web and am surprised at all the unfortunate things they read and try. The exercises you reference here are some of the very ones I teach my patients each day!