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This is absolutely awful advice. Yes doing push ups with proper form will strengthen your core, but a lot of upper back pain is caused from tight pecs and lowe
by ceedan 7y ago
This is absolutely awful advice.
Yes doing push ups with proper form will strengthen your core, but a lot of upper back pain is caused from tight pecs and lower delts which cause a hunch. Doing push ups would continue to tighten the pecs and contribute to back pain. They'd be counter productive for upper back pain, really.
Most people would probably get more back pain relief by laying face down on the floor for 10 minutes rather than doing 10 minutes of push ups.
- overcast 7y agoMost people suffer from lower back pain, example all of us sitting here days on end at the computer. Obviously for upper back pain, working your upper back is not a great idea. My point here is that most back pain is related to our sedentary lifestyle, and simple pushups alleviate a lot of it.