I want to add to your “health education” by showing you what you can do to ease back pain and lower the risk that it will ever happen to you.
Here all the best ways to do that and if you were to follow them all, then you will give yourself the best chance of skipping back pain, or at very least, minimising the effect it may have had upon your active and “on-the-go” life:
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1. Avoid High Heels
Here’s why. Wearing high heels will increase the stress and pressure that your lower back must cope with by about 25 times. Reverse that, and it means if you wear a nice soft cushioned pair of shoes instead, your lower back would be experiencing 25 times LESS pressure and force placed upon it.
Imagine how much relief you’d feel if you could take that type of stress off your lower back right now? But understand that it’s a cumulative effect. This pressure builds up from wearing the wrong footwear over a period of weeks and years and results in a weak and stiff lower back somewhere around the age of 40 – so by the time you pass 50, back pain is almost inevitable.
2. Avoid Sitting For More Than 20 Minutes At A Time
There’s so much ‘gossip’ that surrounds back pain. But this is FACT…you and I were not designed to sit. It goes against every basic, fundamental rule of the way we originally evolved as humans. When you sit there is approximately 10x more pressure pushing down on your spine than when you stand tall.
And it’s because most of us slouch, or flop when we do sit, meaning that the muscles in your spine (called your core muscle group) that are designed to protect you, just don’t work like they are supposed too. This causes inevitable aches, pains and stiffness (the latter being the most common in the 50+ age group).
3. Use Ice (Not Heat)
Ice is by far the best way to ease back pain. My tip, use ice whenever you’re feeling achy or painful, such as at the end of a very busy day. Apply an ice pack for 10 minutes or so, little but very often (every hour) is best. And when to use heat – my tip would be to apply a hot water bottle on a morning when your back is likely to be feeling more stiff, than painful. Again, 10
minutes should do it.
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5. Only do THESE exercises…
6. DO NOT sleep like this…
7. Do NOT wear these….
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Paul Gough
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You might know Paul as an expert Columnist who writes weekly health articles for TWO of the North East's biggest daily Newspapers, The Northern Echo And The Hartlepool Mail, he is a regular Speaker at Industry Seminars around the globe and a Radio Personality, often heard on the BBC. Paul has been an expert guest on dozens of Radio shows and regularly interviewed in newspapers, magazines and trade journals all over the world, including the Guardian.
Paul’s background included working extensively in the Premier League with a Top Professional Football Team, and since quitting his job in Professional Football in 2007, his Physio Practice has become the fastest growing in the UK and biggest in the North East. So successful, that companies like BUPA, ASDA, The Vela Group And Coast & Country, repeatedly retain his Physio company's services to keep healthy their own staff and workforce. Paul Gough Physio Rooms is now a large multi-physio, multi clinic speciality practice in Darlington, Durham, Guisborough and Hartlepool.
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