Tuesday 5 November 2013

Reducing the Back Pain through Stretching

It’s important to consider that stretching should be a part of any exercise routine as it helps in improving the flexibility. Sedentary lifestyle leaves you stiff and hunched over and is contributing to a number of infirmities. Stretching provides you opportunity to feel relaxed and looser via relaxing your tendons and moving your muscles by a full range of motion. Increasing blood circulation is another benefit of stretching that makes you feel warmer and more active.

For the office workers, the importance of stretching increases as they have to spend a lot of time in sitting position. The long period sitting posture rigorously harms your neck and back. A number of office workers suffer from any type of back pain. When they leave their place it’s an uncomfortable experience for them to move fast or join any fast pace activity. Constant sitting causes the back muscles to weaken which results in poor posture as well. A weak back and exhausted muscles stress your spine that furthermore affects your hips, knee, shoulder, hamstrings and calf muscles.  Your lower spine compresses more in sitting position. It’s important to combine proper posture with stretching to prevent back pain.

Usual back pain can be treated with many regular stretches. The typical back pain reduces within a week or two without any particular treatment. Stretching offers flexibility and strength to avoid stiffness and weakness from back muscles. Here are some of the stretching exercises that you can perform easily in order to relax you back:

  • Sit on a chair and drop your head down slowly to your knees. Move your hands up in the air then slowly lower them down and place your palms on the floor. Rest in the pose and hold for about twenty seconds. Slowly sit back. Repeat the pose three to five times.
  • Lying on your back on a floor mat and bring your right knee towards your chest. Hold it with both hands for five to ten seconds. Pull the knee to feel a little tension in the muscles. Switch legs simultaneously. Repeat the move on each side for eight to ten times. Pull both the knees together in the end for about five to eight times for ten seconds.
  • Stand straight. Then bend yourself to touch your toes with your fingers without bending your knees. It may be difficult in the beginning to touch the toes but keep trying. This is such good move to enhance flexibility in many major muscles group. Repeat it ten to fifteen times.

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