Thursday, December 24, 2009

Find Relief For The Back Pain

By Russ Campanella

Back pain can keep you from doing the things you love as well as the things that you need to do. There are some exercises that you need to learn about to prevent back pain.

For a couple of days after the acute injury to your back, the doctor may require you to stick to bed rest. Your back may agree. During this time, you may be having muscle spasms. The spasms are the body's way of telling you to avoid anything that will cause further damage to your already injured back.

After a couple of days, it will be time to get up from your bed and begin moving about, slowly at first. Staying in bed for a prolonged period lets your muscles become weak and healing will take longer.

Getting back to a normal schedule makes recovery quicker for most people. Normal activities are better that remaining in bed or beginning a new exercise program for quick healing.

Once you have recovered completely from your injury, stay away from those activities that may be considered as high impact. In a few days you may want to increase your walking or start swimming. These activities that are considered low impact help to strengthen the back muscles. Stretching may also be used as it increased circulation, a key to healing. Warm showers are also useful in keeping muscles loose.

Once the back pain has gone in two to eight weeks, you can begin to do more strenuous exercises. Your doctor or physical therapist can help you develop an exercise program that will help to prevent further injury.

Exercises should target the core muscles. The stronger the muscles in the back, buttocks and abdomen become the more support the spine will have. This will help to take some stress away from the joints between the vertebra and is essential to prevent recurring back pain.

Strengthen core muscles in order to prevent or reduce back pain. In fact, many people find that these steps will actually eliminate back pain altogether.

In addition muscles that are not stretched on a regular basis can become shortened. Shortened muscles cause the spine to be out of alignment and may give you pain. By choosing stretching exercises, the shortened muscles are lengthened and pain is relieved. If the muscles in your back, buttocks, hamstrings or quadriceps are tight, it often affects spine alignment. Stretching muscles can relieve this problem and increase joint mobility in the spine.

When you do have a back injury, your doctor can prescribe medication that will help with the pain, however strengthening the core muscles will help to prevent new injuries and pain. - 14130

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