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lower Back Pain and Exercises
18.03.2010
Lower Back Pain and Exercises
It is commonly known that 80% of the population will experience low back pain at some point in their lives. It is also a fact that many of these people do not exercise and live relatively sedentary lives. Remember that the body is designed to move and not to be in a chair seated for periods of time or being stagnant. Muscles, ligaments and tendons are made for stability, movement and posture.
Lower back pain is commonly a result a postural dysfunction. Postural dysfunction is the bodies inefficiency to hold the body up in correct alignment. This would be a direct result of trauma, injury, sitting for long periods, asymmetrical muscle tightness, poor exercise programs and stretching routines. Many people think that simply going to the gym will rid there back pain and create stronger backs. This is not the case. The most important thing to remember if you have low back pain is to have a postural assessment and muscle length assessment to determine why the pain is occurring and how to treat it. Many therapists and trainers simply tell there clients or patients to go to the gym and strengthen there backs and abdominals. This can exacerbate the problem if detail is missed out! Simply strengthening these areas will not help. Low back pain can be a result of compression in the spinal discs, rotation of a vertebral segment, irritated nerves, stretched nerves, compressed nerves, asymmetries of the musculature around the hips and low back, pelvis misalignment, asymmetrical leg length and neck and jaw misalignment! So there are many factors to consider. With these in mind the client must go to the gym and have a corrective exercise and stretching program. This will correct the pain and dysfunction and also create correct movements for the body.
A good exercise program will have free weight exercises, multidirectional and rotational components that will help mobilize, stabilize and strengthen the targeted area.
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