Get Rid Of The Back Pain

By Robert Reiss

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 the first two days after an acute injury your doctor may want you to have bed rest. Just after an injury, your may be having muscle spasms. This is your body telling you that you have an injury and that you should not move. During these two days, lying on a hard bed may relieve the spasms.

Once you have reached two days, it is time to get back out of bed and start moving. If you stay in bed too long, the muscles become weak and healing takes 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.

Until the injury has healed, you will need to stay away from high impact activities. Instead, start by swimming or by walking. Warm water exercises may be especially beneficial. Each of these activities will strengthen back muscles. Stretching increases the blood flow and loosens muscles that are tight. A warm shower can help to keep the muscles lose during exercise time.

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.

If you strengthen the core muscles you may be able to prevent or reduce back pain. Sometimes this is all that is needed to eliminate the back pain.

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 back injuries do occur, medication may give temporary relief from the pain, but strengthening the core helps to keep new injuries from happening and lets you live with less pain. - 30453

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