Back Strengthening Exercises.

Back strengthening exercises are an absolute necessity for the long term management (and avoidance) of back pain.

Back pain exercises can reduce your pain both in the short term and more permanently in the long term. However, success lies in:

Correct choice of strengthening exercises for your individual back condition.
Having them taught correctly to you.
And then performed correctly by you!

Too often I see clients who have been doing home back exercises incorrectly. This, over time can lead to a worsening of your back pain and can be the underlying cause in the development of new back pain symptoms. Always seek an expert’s advice prior to doing back strengthening exercises regularly.

The type of back strengthening exercise that I would give you in my own clinic would depend on your postural type and the symptoms that you have, or have experienced in the past with your back.

If you have a "sway back posture" the exercises that I would give you would be very different to the ones I use for a "lordotic back posture".

If your back pain was as a result of poor postural habits, then I would use posture exercises to strengthen your posture. However, if you have a specific weakness at one disc or joint level in your back, I would teach you specific exercises and ways of strengthening that part of your spine anatomy.

Back strengthening exercises

If you have a back flexibility problem, I would mobilise and loosen your back before I teach you strengthening exercises. I consider this to be very important, as if you strengthen around a poor alignment you may create further problems. Imagine a stack of bricks piled one on top of the other. If one of those bricks is out of alignment and you put cement around it to strengthen it, the end result would not be too good!!! Similarly if you strengthen your spine while it is out of alignment the effect would not be too great either!!

Ultimately, back strengthening exercises are down to timing and specifics. If you use the correct strengthening exercise for your back at the right time the result will amaze you!

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