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Improving your core abdominal strength is the main treatment for back pain. There are some PT exercises like bird dog, crunches, and superman that will help as
by sjg007 5y ago
Improving your core abdominal strength is the main treatment for back pain. There are some PT exercises like bird dog, crunches, and superman that will help as well as some stretches. You also want to sleep in a neutral position and walk about as much as you can.
Most are caused by muscle strain when lifting or doing something with your back in a weird position. I think you get continual muscle spasms as well. So the nerves are irritated, the muscles contract and it gets painful so you have to basically get the muscles to relax.
Sometimes the muscles along the hips can be involved as well and figuring out a way to stretch them will help. Chiropractors like to realign them.
Keeping up your core strength is apparently the best option though.
- ectopod 5y agoYes. I had thirty years of back pain. Then I reached an age where ones muscles naturally atrophy and I was really in trouble. But after four years of back exercises, weight lifting and core exercises the pain is almost entirely gone. My back feels better than it ever has. One weird thing was that it sometimes took me a couple of years to realise I was doing an exercise wrong. But I don't think I was initially capable of doing the exercise correctly. I literally didn't have the muscles, and it took a couple of years of wonky exercises to start developing them. If, like me, you're an older geek with little sympathy for your body, it takes a long time to develop it. But it's worth the effort.