A relaxed, balanced posture is the key to a pain free back. To make sure you achieve this healthy stance, a key group of cells called the proprioceptors send messages to the brain regarding the correct alignment of muscles. In our hectic lives, we often don’t listen to the signals our body sends [...]
Archive for August, 2007
How to test your body posture
Posted in Back Exercises, Back Health, Posture on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Understanding your spine and back muscles
Posted in Back Exercises, Back Health, Posture on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To understand why our backs hurt, it helps to investigate this area of our body in more detail. The back is made up of layers of interwoven muscles that wrap around the ‘S’ shape of the spine. The back is made up of 24 vertibrae that are joined together by discs that are [...]
Asia, Eastern cultures and lower back exercises
Posted in Back Exercises, Posture, Stretches on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In Asia and eastern cultures it is much more normal for people to sit in a cross legged position or posture. This is much better for us as it aligns the hips and spine and forces our back muscles to work harder. The less flexibility you have in the hips, the more likely [...]
Lower Back Exercises – an introduction to my readers
Posted in Back Exercises, Back Health, Back Pain, Sciatica, Stretches on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hello and wecome to my back health website.
A few years ago I started getting back pain. Being a typical office worker, this started from sitting all day in my chair and basically not moving around enough. We sit in a seat of some kind most of the day. On the way to [...]
