As little as 10 extra pounds puts great stress on your lower back. It also makes it more difficult to maintain good posture.
As little as 10 extra pounds puts great stress on your lower back. It also makes it more difficult to maintain good posture.
It is widely accepted in the medical community that the best treatment for lower back pain (LBP) is prevention. Keeping fit, (flexible and strong), practicing posture, and using good body mechanics are essential in the prevention of LBP. At our office, great time and effort is spent emphasizing the importance of these concepts.
People with LBP represent a wide variety of presentations and outcomes. Studies show 85% are fully recovered in 3 months regardless of the intervention. Some of my LBP patients are fully recovered and live normal, active lives. Others have on occasional and short-term flare-ups of LBP. Unfortunately, others suffer through a life of chronic back pain that occurs more frequently and intensely each year.
One of the most common problems people come to my office with is lower back pain (LBP). Studies show that 80-90% of adults in the USA will experience lower back pain at one or more times in their lives.
I have been advising my patients to exercise, keep active, and walk as long as they can in order to stay mobile and healthy. However, seniors often tell me activities that require prolonged walking is limited by knee pain from arthritis. They often ask, “What is arthritis of the knee? How does it happen? What can I do about it?
Tennis elbow, also called lateral epicondylitis, is an inflammation of the lateral (outside) bony protuberance at the elbow. The trauma is especially irritating when working the muscles in an awkward position with poor leverage such as hitting a backhand in tennis.
Hamstring strains are very common in football, both American and European. Each fall, as the season begins, many players suffer from pain in the back of their thigh when they pull or strain the hamstring muscle. New research shows that these injuries can be prevented by following a specifically designed intensive training program.
The outcomes for active people continue to improve with advances in technology, prosthetic materials and new techniques. As a result, many active people are eager to use there new joint to continue their active lifestyle. The ability to remain active while not compromising the integrity of the new joint continues to be the source of some controversy. It will be the purpose of this column to review the literature and make recommendations to safely return to golf with a hip and knee replacement.
Guest Columnist: Janet M. Caputo, PT, OCS Ergonomics is the process of changing your environment to encourage good body mechanics. This can be accomplished by a modifying a tool, work station, counter height, task, or job. Performing tasks within the best work zones encourages safety and decreases risk of injury through facilitating neutral spine postures. […]
Proper body mechanics are based on good posture. Proper body mechanics involve maintaining a neutral spine with transitions from one position to another during daily activities.
