Exercise For Back Pain & Sciatica
The Good News
So the good news is that by regularly doing the right sciatica and back exercise, you can keep your back healthy and strong and usually stop any pain your experiencing today.
The exercises are simple and can be learnt by anybody with a bit of practice. Even if your back already hurts, or is strained, there is a good chance that you can make it better.
Note: If you’re already sick, or your back really hurts and you think you’ve injured yourself, go and see a health practitioner.
The Not-So-Good News
If you don’t exert yourself reasonably regularly, especially as you age, the muscles supporting and surrounding your back will eventually get weak and stiff.
Then these muscles won’t be able to work well enough when you most need them to - when you put a strain on your back.
It’s then much more likely that your will injure your back when you do place a strain on it, even if it’s a small one.
Unfortunately, your back can get injured from an action as simple as reaching for something on your desk, or from a more obvious strain such as lifting something heavy, especially if your posture is bad as you do it.
Why Back Problems Tend to Hang Around
Your back is a complicated mechanical system with many moving parts. This is why the condition of the surrounding muscles are so important in supporting it and holding everything in alignment.
Studies have shown the muscles that provide support to your back behave differently to other muscles.
The key difference is that they are slower to automatically “switch back on” (i.e. return to their previous level of function) after an injury or a strain.
Unless they are triggered by exercise, they can take a long time to return to their previous level of function, or they may never return to full function and so your back doesn’t get the support it needs.
When these supporting muscles are working properly, they respond to signals from your brain by clenching or bracing fractionally before a strain impacts your back.
This means your back is supported as the strain arrives and so the chance of (further) injury or strain is reduced.
When this mechanism is not working properly and the muscles don’t trigger, your back is left unsupported and thus you are more likely to re-injure or strain your back.
This is why back problems can be so difficult to get rid of once you start having them and why you can become prone to recurring problems.
This is also the reason regular exercise is so important - it helps to keep your supporting muscles active and able to do their job.
Things You Can Do To Help Your Back
Suggestions:
1. If you want learn more about your back, sciatica and how to deal with your back pain, subscribe to our Back Exercise Course.
On other pages in the site you can read about taking care of your back, listen to interviews with back specialists and learn about how you can build up your health and back strength.
2. If you want learn a whole lot more about your back, the treatment options, what you might encounter in the medical system and how to get the best from it, then try the BackIQ e-book.
3. Start a program to strengthen your back and the core muscles that support it. We recommend the Better Back System. You can try this at home to see if it works for you without any risk, because of the great double guarantee that comes with it
The Better Back Book shows you a set of special exercises that you can do at home in about 5 minutes a day with a 97% chance of success.
4. Start an eating regime that gives your body the nutrition it needs to function and heal itself properly. There is no rocket science here - a simple diet with a good selection of fresh foods is one of the keys to anti aging.
In fact, a good diet and moderate exercise really are 2 keys to a long healthy life. We don’t think you need to swallow a bucket full of pills and supplements everyday.
However, because many of the foods we eat are highly processed, we do suggest a natural nutrition supplement to make sure your body gets all the nutrients it needs. Google the BodyBalance supplement - you can often find somebody offering a month’s free trial - is the best we’ve found so far.
There’s no mystery really! When you take action on a few key things, you’re on the road to a better back, ending your back pain and sciatica and ensuring good health.
