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LIFE WITHOUT BACK PAIN Living Without Limits
your feet can cause the back muscles to weaken and can even weaken bone strength.Thiscould lead tomore long-term issueswithbackpain—not fewer. Exercise, in general, is shown to increase strength and flexibility, supporting healthy muscles and bones, and therefore supporting ideal back health. 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. Throughacombinationofstrengthand flexibilitytrainingthat focusesonmuscle developmentand jointmovement,physical therapycanaddress theunderlying cause 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.Everymovement,everymotion isdeterminedby thepain inyourback. Standing,sitting, layingdown,driving,walkingorrunning— thepainpersists. 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 forseveralreasons.Tostart, theworld isn’tas forgiving.Heading home and taking a long rest until your back is healed may work for some, but not formost.Withdeadlinesandcarpoolsandworkschedules tokeepupwith, 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’smore,recentresearch indicatesthatrestingmaynotactuallybethe ideal solution for long-term back care. Spending too much time on the couch or off
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