There is no doubting back pain is a big problem in the modern world. It is not limited to people who don’t exercise and can cut down even the fittest people. The good news is I believe many people recognize that exercise is invaluable for treating back pain and also preventing it. Unfortunately the understanding of what type of exercise is best is where it all goes wrong. For many years now we have been convinced to believe that strong abs means a strong core, and will prevent back pain. Even therapists and Doctors have been known to prescribe planks and abdominal exercises to treat back pain with this same type of thinking. We must realize that strength of the abdominal muscles WILL NOT change the faulty movement that leads to injury and pain. Your body will instantly sacrifice any strength if it only knows how to move with the same dysfunctional movement it has always used. You must identify and change the faulty movement patterns linked to the injury to have any chance. In this article we will explain why learning to move better is more important to you than strength of your abdominal muscles if you have back pain.
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.
Why Walking Is Great For Back Pain And Improving Core Stability
Walking is one of the most under-rated forms of exercise and we really take for granted how vital maintaining it is to the health of our body. In many ways it is similar to the heart and lungs and something we barely pay attention to until something goes wrong. It is then that we realize just how important it is to look after. Without a doubt walking is one of the most difficult movements to correct or rehabilitate after an accident, injury, or illness for the human gait cycle is such a complex series of movements with many moving parts all occurring within a split second. I am not going to spend too much time talking about how to improve walking in today’s article as we will need about 3000 more words to explain this. Instead, I want to relate this movement to how it can help with back pain and even hip pain which is something I come across a lot. One of the first things I tell many clients I see with back pain is to make “fast walking” a part of their training program for as you are about to see there is some amazing things that happen to your body from this type of movement.