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Live Life Pain Free
LIVING LIFE WITHOUT BACK PAIN
solution for long-term back care. Spending too much time on the couch or off your feet can cause the back muscles to weaken and can even weaken bone strength. This could lead to more long-term issues with back pain — not fewer. Exercise, in general, is shown to increase strength and flexibility, supporting healthy muscles and bones, and therefore supporting ideal back health. Physical Therapy for Back Pain : While rest and relaxation can help you overcome the immediatepainofaback injury,andmayevenbe recommendedbyyourphysician in the early days following an injury, it is not a long-term solution. Physical therapy offers a long-term solution to back pain by using targeted exercises that focus on the cause of the pain. Through a combination of strength and flexibility training that focuses on muscle developmentand jointmovement,physical therapycanaddress theunderlyingcause of the pain and significantly improve your quality of life.
For some, back pain is a daily occurrence that dictates the way you live your life. Every movement, every motion is determined by the pain in your back. Standing, sitting, laying down, driving, walking or running — the pain persists. In ages past, back pain was difficult to treat. If you experienced back pain, whether as a result of a work injury, trip-and-fall accident, or even just as a result of aging, the answer was almost always the same: head home, take a long rest, and give your back time to heal. This isn’t the way that things go anymore, and for several reasons. To start, the world isn’t as forgiving. Heading home and taking a long rest until your back is healed may work for some, but not for most. With deadlines and carpoolsandworkschedules tokeepupwith, thereneeds tobeanalternatesolution to dealing with back pain that doesn’t require you to completely remove yourself from your responsibilities.
What’s more, recent research indicates that resting may not actually be the ideal
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