Tag: lower back pain
Dealing With Lower Back Pain
Eighty percent of North Americans will experience lower back pain at some point in their life. How do you know if your lower back pain is a muscle strain or something more serious? The fact is that you are probably the best judge of just how serious your injury is. Back pain can be anything
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Managing Back Pain With The McKenzie Method
From The Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies (2005)9,40–42 SELF-HELP: PATIENT’S ADVICE McKenzie self-treatments for sciatica Author- Craig Liebenson, DC, 10474 Santa Monica Blvd., #202, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA One of the most painful and disabling back problems is sciatica. This is a pinched nerve in your lower back that causes buttock, thigh, lower
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Sit/Stand Workstations
A new approach to the standard desk is the sit/stand work station. It not only allows for people to have a tremendous variety in their day by sitting or standing, it also allows people with chronic back pain to have an alternative seating position which places far less strain on their back. These types
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Workstation Seating and Your Spine- A New Paradigm
As a massage therapist I am treating back pain on a regular basis. If you have occasional back pain you can get by with traditional seating, the big fat lazy chair, but if you deal with constant back pain it is probably time to rethink your seat. We are going to begin with a bit
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Simple, Safe Exercises For Your Back
A term that you may have heard used around fitness is core strength. However, when you try to find out exactly which muscles are the core muscles, you find that everybody has a different list. Suffice it to say that they are generally the deeper muscles in the torso and hips rather than the
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