Village: Living Life Without Back Pain

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“Is Pain Affecting Your Fun Time?” LIVING LIFE WITHOUT BACK PAIN

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• Understanding The Why & How Of Back Pain • Relieve Back Pain In Minutes • More Options For Back Pain Relief • Healthy Recipe

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

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 immediate pain of a back injury, and may even be recommended by your physician 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.

MICHELE CHILDS PT/Owner

and carpools and work schedules to keep up with, there needs to be an alternate solution 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 solution for long-term back care. Spending too much time on Through a combination of strength and flexibility training that focuses on muscledevelopmentand jointmovement,physical therapycanaddress the underlying cause of the pain and significantly improve your quality of life. If you have suffered from back pain, see one of our physical therapists at Village Physical Therapy to help you return to a more active and pain-free life. Give us a call today at 719-577-4104!

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