Is your back pain intensified after spending the day rock climbing? Follow these instructions for a yoga pose to both help relieve and prevent back pain while climbing! Start stretching consistently, say climbers Olivia Hsu, a yoga instructor, and Heidi Wirtz, a long-time yoga practitioner. And the smartest way to stretch? Yoga. “Yoga balances out…
With Memorial Day Weekend upon us, that means pools all over will be opening for the summer. Now’s the time to hit the pool, not only for fitness and sunshine, but to help ease your back pain! Check out these tips for swimming to better back health. What are the best swimming strokes to alleviate…
There are more days lost in the workforce with back pain than any other ailment, including the flu. Back pain can be caused by the simplest movement like tying your shoelace or even sneezing. When the muscles in your back go into spasm, you often cannot move for a few minutes. Then we are inclined…
Slouching may be fashionable for some red carpet regulars, but it’s one of several reasons why about 80% of us will have spinal problems in our lifetime. And yet, most of us can cure or even avoid back pain and surgery by taking a few daily preventive steps. Spinal problems can start as early as…
Lower back pain can be caused by a plethora of reasons, ranging from injury to aging and, in some cases, it can be debilitating, rendering a patient unable to work regularly or at all. But for some patients, finding a form of spinal manipulation, which is sometimes referred to as spinal manipulative therapy, that works…
A researcher with the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) has found that depression and back pain are part of a vicious cycle which reinforce each other. Professor Markus Melloh said that it has been known for some years that people with depressive symptoms are more likely to develop and maintain pain in the…