Reduce Back Pain With These Sleep Tips

Sleep is supposed to be regenerative, restoring and restful. When you wake up in the morning, your back should feel better then when you hit the hay the night before. If you suffer from chronic or even occasional back pain, you know too well that this is not always the case. Too often, you wake [...]

Sitting At Your Desk Can Be A Pain In The Back

Back pain is debilitating and has tormented most of us at one time or another, nevertheless so many of us spend hour upon hour glued to our computer screen, often sitting badly on unsupportive chairs.

Straighten up the Slouching Shoulders

We tend to become totally engrossed in what we are doing and completely forget about our posture, we slouched over, round our shoulders, and stay in the same position for extended periods of time.

Immobility Weakens Muscles

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Lower Back Stretch for Back Pain Relief

Lower Back Stretch – expert in spinal therapy, Ron Phelan, demonstrate how to perform iliopsoas muscle stretch to relieve lower back pain and sciatica symptoms. The most common reason clients attend the clinic for treatment is due to lower back pain.  Although the causes of this condition are varied, there are certain muscles that most often [...]

Traveling with Back Pain – Tips and Advice

When traveling with back pain there are some things you need to keep in mind, and some preventative methods you can take. Here are some of the most effective tips to help you travel with back pain by focusing on prevention of the pain. 1. Traveling with back pain on the plane – before and during [...]

Items for Back Pain Relief

Are there some products that you are in need of to help relieve your back pain? Below is a list that I compiled of items usually found helpful to help relieve back pain: Supportive pillows for your neck and for between your knees while you sleep – some people enjoy using a body pillow. A [...]

11 Tips to Prevent Lower Back Pain

How to prevent lower back pain? Here are some of the best strategies that can form the basis for an effective first-line defense against lower back pain, which is much easier than treating it after an injury. Exercise and Posture Good posture and regular exercise helps minimize chronic back conditions. Regular exercise is good but it is important not [...]

Lower Back Pain Correlates With Height and Weight of the Patients

A correlation between lower back pain and height and weight of patients was found in a large study presented at the North American Spine Society annual meeting. The study included more than 800,000 young adult Israel military recruits with lower back pain who were placed in one of two groups: recruits with subjective complaints of [...]

Lower Back Pain Relief – Benefits of Yoga vs. Stretching

Yoga and stretching are both of equal assistance in aiding the relief of lower back pain – a recent study in the Archives on Internal Medicine surprised it’s conductors when the results has been revealed. “We expected back pain to ease more with yoga than with stretching, so our findings surprised us,” said lead study author Karen Sherman, a [...]