Preventing Back Pain
The latest developments & research related to preventing back pain.
Pain and ageing: Getting older doesn't mean we need to live with pain
The Sunday Express newspaper from the UK has reported an unsettling trend where mature persons are choosing to delay medical treatment for pain for more than a year - specifically...
Get excited about getting back to work
As we head back to work at the start of the new year, now is the perfect time to make changes that will reverberate through 2018. Make it the best year...
Reducing back pain on holidays
In the midst of a beautiful summer, getting away for some well deserved rest and relaxation is a must. While we can wish that back pain would pack itself off...
Back pain in children, and what to do about it
Contrary to popular belief, back pain is a health issue for children as much as their grandparents. Early in 2017, the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio, USA did a thorough...
Strengthening exercises to prevent and treat back pain
Exercise. Whether you like it or hate it, it’s the natural, free and proven way to treat back pain. Considering your back is going to support you every single day...
Boost productivity and workplace health at the office with the right ergonomic equipment
If this is your year for achieving great things and boosting your productivity, make 2017 the year where workplace health is a priority in your business, and in your working...
10 great activities to improve your back strength
While an apple a day keeps the doctor away, daily physical activities can improve your back strength, and prevent ongoing pain. If sweating it out at the gym isn't your...
The relationship between healthy feet and back pain
The human body is an integrated machine. No body part works in isolation. Like the beat of a butterfly’s wings, a minor toe injury can have a huge and unexpected...
Combat back pain with meditation
Imagine having the power to reduce your own pain levels! A study written about in Scientific American shows Buddhist Monks well practiced in meditation are actually able to control the...
Exercise to boost spine muscles and relieve pain
Pounding the pavements, spin class or the working out at the gym feels rather compulsory when squeezed into spare moments between commuting, working and family life instead of the joyful...
The benefits of good posture
Has anyone ever told you, "Stand up straight!" or scolded you for slouching at a family dinner? Comments like that might be annoying—but they’re not wrong. Your posture is the...
Perfecting posture: A trend that goes beyond ergonomics
Perfecting posture has officially become more than just good practise for our back health - like athletic wear, mindfulness, and the Kardashians, good posture is now a trend. From America, to...
Back Pain: Work, Exercise and Posture
At some point in our lives, back pain is likely to affect each of us. In Australia, the cost of lost productivity and treatments costs a massive $34 billion according...
Lazy young men suffer the consequences
Worrying statistics have emerged for the British Chiropractic Association (BCA), reporting that four out five British men experience back or neck pain on a daily basis. This is a massive...
Simple breathing exercises to reduce back pain
Bad Backs has long been an advocate of surgery alternatives to manage and reduce back pain, and over time, we've come across a number of simple breathing exercises to reduce back...
Prevention through bracing in young adults
There is overwhelming evidence that bracing in young adults diagnosed with idiopathic scoliosis, the most common and insidious form of the disease, is so effective that the need for surgery...
Relearning Posture – why we should all stand like kings
Do you know what Princess Mary has in common with a statue from Classical Greece and an Amazonian tribesperson? No? The answer is: excellent posture. Standing tall and proud is...
The Brief Back-Pain Program - exercise for back health
If you are reading this, chances are you have back pain. It may be radiating pressure in your lumbar spine, or a tight ache between the shoulders. Every movement pulls...
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