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 yet in terms of caring for your health and wellbeing. A few strategic tweaks to the environment – at home, work or school – can boost your ability to concentrate, collaborate and achieve your goals, and benefit those around you too.
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 to live your life, investing in regular exercise keeps it healthy. Exercise is effective because it reduces inflammation and it increases coordination
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 review of scientific literature learning that lower back pain in children is a common problem, not a rare one, that becomes more widespread as they mature.
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 impact on the back. Compare the gait of an able walker with someone who has suffered a recent sprain. They are immediately off-balance.
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 foundation for every movement your body makes and can determine how well your body adapts to the stresses on it. Murat Dalkilinç gives the pros of good posture.
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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 experience we wish it was.
Exercise becomes a less palatable prospect when lower back pain flares up. The fear of grimacing through pain or straining sore muscles leads to avoidance behaviours. But persever…
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 thing, then you might like to try something that you can slot into your everyday activities with ease, or share with your friends and family.
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 intensity of pain they feel. This ability to control your own mind’s responses is in your hands (and you don’t need to travel to the wilderness or don robes to do it). There is a growing body of evidence that poi…
On average humans tend to get about eight hours of sleep a night. It’s estimated that over the course of our lives, we spend about a third of our lives sleeping.
So can your sleep posture affect your back, and overall health and well-being? The answer is an emphatic ‘yes’!
That’s because getting enough good quality sleep gives your body time to recuperate, repair and detoxify. This in tur…
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 is completely prevented. This was the finding of a clinical trial undertaken across 25 sites in the USA and Canada back in 2013. T
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