How To Avoid Back Pain In Later Life
Back pain is an avoidable “disease”.
Back pain seems to affect most Americans in later life. Chiropractors make a killing out of your pain because everyone seems to get it. This is partly a result of the sedentary lifestyle of working in an office.
Think about it – you sit in a chair all day which is bad for the spine and human skeleton. Men and animals alike were meant to be constantly on the move, not constrained to sit at a desk for most of the day.
Make sure that you have a good chair at work, in fact demand it of your employer. Your bad posture will give you cumulative damage. You might feel alright now but in 20 years time you could regret it.
The other thing is to make sure that you life correctly. Most people lift items in a bad way and even objects that weight just a few pounds can take a cumulative toll on your back.
The best way is to lift as close to the body as possible and keep the back straight. A good way to do this is to look ahead while you are lifting. Think about how those Olympic power lifters do it and you get a good idea of the most efficient and least dangerous way to lift any object.