Understanding Back Pain
How severe is your back pain? Crippling at times, but recurring always, isn’t it? You are being advised by all and sundry about the postures you have to adopt, to ensure that back pain doesn’t visit you once again. When you have knowledge about your body’s alignment, you can avoid recurring back pains. Awareness will keep out bad postures, and you should be aware that proper postures helps you get rid of back pain.
Watch how you are standing, sitting and walking. If you repeatedly keep an eye on these, awareness automatically dawns. But as a busy person, how can keep a watchful eye on these? Fortunately, there are supports and exercises which help you in forming good postures while you are sitting or standing. As you form right postures, you can avoid back pain.
Repeated using of back supports and exercising will put you into an automatic mode of adopting the right postures. This alone can relieve you of back pain.
Most of our waking life is spent sitting, you sit down for eating, working, reading etc., and thus you must learn how to adopt a right sitting position, which will protect you from crippling back pain.
Remember when you sit, the body should continue to be active. Your body alignment is designed to remain moving. Your sitting posture shouldn’t strain other parts of your body, compressing the nerves and joints. Back pain is the result of this strain.
When you sit without moving your body, the pelvis rotated under the body, the tailbone and the sacrum back receive excessive weight. You must know that your body alignment is such that lumbar curve is rounded, while the spines thoracic region is curved. Your neck and shoulders are under pressure to support the head. Your back is certainly likely to be damaged, if you lean forward, since pressure comes on to neck, arms, shoulders, and lower back, resulting in back pain. A bad collapsed posture will block circulation and energy from reaching the various parts of the body.
Compare this with your active sitting posture, when every part of the joints and bones are aligned to take correct weight. Correct sitting posture allows you to move freely, balancing body weight between pelvic bones, front-to back and side-to-side. This sitting posture helps spine to act as a powerful, sustaining configuration, which aligns the head over your shoulders, together with neck and spine down to the pelvis. This posture helps you to comfortably hold the weight, allowing the body to be active even while sitting. Your back pain will be a thing of the past.
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