HEALTH: Reducing or Preventing Back Pain

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If you're on your feet all the time and frequently lifting (production), or if you sit in a chair all day at your job (post-production), the resulting muscle imbalances will likely cause back pain for you.  I've been dealing with lower-back pain for a few days now, but today it's bad enough that I couldn't think straight from all the pain.

From my research (and the advice of others), I've learned that lower back pain involves more than just your back muscles.  Your calves, glutes, and hip flexors all come into play; they all need to be stretched.  Even if you're not in excruciating pain, you should seriously consider adopting some stretching into your daily routine to avoid future injury, increase flexibility, and relieve stress.

By the way, how's your posture right now?  Sit up!

I spent awhile looking around online for some help, but a lot of websites have poor explanations or useless pictures.  Finally, I came across lower-back-pain-answers.com.  The instructions make sense, the videos have clear explanations, and I already feel a little better having done some of their stretches.

This page deals with lower-back stretches.  Thank God.

Everyone is busy in this industry and it's easy to overlook your own health, but don't wait until it's too late to take proper care of yourself.  If your injury is serious enough, you might be unable to work.  Besides, you don't want to be retire as a barely-functioning body of squeaky joints and deformed muscles, do you?  Take care of yourself!

How's your posture?

_V.S.

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