Many people report that their back feels much better when they swim, and it is often prescribed as a treatment plan by many health professionals. However, this is not always the case and like most things to do with health the answer is not that simple for not all types of back pain are the same. What might help one type of back pain may hurt the next so you need to be certain as to what type of injury you are dealing with. Secondly, and more importantly even if swimming helps to manage your pain it does not address the reason for it or change the faulty movement you are continually using when you are standing up. Swimming may help some people to counter the damage of their dysfunctional movement but it will not be able to change it and this is where you efforts must be placed if you want a successful long term treatment.
7 Common Myths About Back Pain That Prevent People From Improving
If there is one thing that frustrates me more than anything it is seeing people remain in pain from following a plan that is based on poor information and doomed to fail. I regularly see clients who on the first visit tell me the things they have been doing to help their problem in the belief it was the right thing to do. Some had made this decision themselves, whereas others were given advice from someone else, or found a video on You Tube. Back pain is by far the most common injury with statistics showing 85% of the population will suffer with this at some point in their life and it does not discriminate who it affects. As it can greatly impact inactive people, fit people, young kids, sporting athletes, and older adults. Most of the strategies people adopt thinking it is helping are merely treating the symptoms and based on information that is never going to work and in some cases make it much worse! Most of these methods neglect the reason WHY the pain is there in the first place which leads to gradual progression of the problem and eventually more severe pain. In this article, I am going to discuss what the common myths relating to back pain are and what you can do to avoid making these mistakes and get rid of your pain for good.