Simple Exercises To Help Relieve Back Pain
Posted by admin on September 12th, 2008
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Exercise is very good for you, as as I’m sure you appreciate, but it’s especially good to help relieve back pain, providing you conform with a few easy to follow instructions, and perform the right exercises. Here’s some easygoing and effective physical exercises that should help relieve back pain and tender some gratefully received chronic back pain relief:
Shift and lift: This is a very simple exercise that you can do to strengthen the muscles around your lower back and buttocks (in particular) while sitting at your desk. This is therefore something that you can practice while sat at your desk, due to the nature of the ‘lifting’ component of the exercise, I wouldn’t recommend you do this while there’s other people too close to you, for example. They may wonder what on earth you’re up to!
Nonetheless, this is a very effective exercise for preventing stiff or aching muscles that will often result from sitting for long periods of time, and it’s also a great way to strengthen those muscles too!
While you are in your chair, relax and then clench the muscle in one buttock and hold for 3 to 5 seconds, lifting your hip slightly as you do so. Relax and then do it again. Do this 15-20 times for each buttock.
Hip sway: This is great exercise to do if you have to stand up for any length of time, as it relieves the stress in your legs and stimulates the blood flow within your legs, hips and back. It can also help to alleviate back and hip pain that many individuals are affected by if they are forced to stand up for a long time.
Start from a standing position, let you right knee relax totally, while at the same time pushing your left hip out to the side. Pull the hip back in again, and repeat the same action 15-20 times. After that, relax your left knee, and force your right hip out in the same way.
Lifting: This exercise needs a bag - a supermarket plastic bag, or anything else with extended handles for lifting will be fine. Put something of weight in the bag - again, it is fairly irrelevant exactly what it is, but make sure it is at least a few kilos (drinks bottles are ideal for this, because you know that a liter bottle weighs pretty much a kilo).
Start with your arm straight down the side of your body, bend your knees until the weight in the bag reaches the floor and then lift the bag by straightening you legs. Lift until your legs are once again straight, hold the upright position for a few seconds, and then bend your knees to touch the bag down again.
Repeat this exercise 15 times on the one side of your body, and then repeat on the other side. By making sure you bend your legs and not you back - this is a great exercise for strengthening the mid and lower back, glutes and hips, and will also offer some immediate back pain relief due to the increased blood flow.
Shoulder Shrugs: This is a really easy exercise that as well as keeping your lower back toned, it is also a powerful approach for discharging the tension that builds around your neck and across the back of your shoulders. As an added benefit, this exercise is also great for working your shoulders and arm muscles. Because you can do the exercise sitting or standing you can perform it pretty much anywhere.
For the starting postiion, simply lift your shoulders up towards your ears in a classic shrugging motion, then lift your arms up until they are at right angles to your body and turn your palms so that they are facing outwards. To finish, twist your head to one side then hold for a few seconds. Return to the starting position and do the whole thing again, but this time, tilt your head to the other side.
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