EXERCISES TO RELIEVE BACK PAIN
Bending to touch your toes, unless done by an athlete, makes a lot of work for practitioners involved in back care! This movement puts pressure on the discs and can start you off on another round of corrective adjustment.
Many new patients arrive at our offices for adjustment because they decided to ‘get fit. Their first exercise leaves them in pain. The happy amateur never warms up and starts immediately into the most difficult exercise routine with great gusto.
It’s much better to swim and walk. First go and check up on all the neighbours’ gardens. Do it at a progressively faster rate. Add some hills. Time yourself. Join a bushwalking or bike riding association. Buy an exercise bike for the wet cold days.
The following exercises are from How to Live with a Bad Back, by Dr Otto C. Reinert (Marion Press, 1982), an eminent American chiropractor, now retired, with forty years’ experience in backache.
Caution: Perform all actions slowly, carefully and with deliberation. Do not force, or exert sudden and abrupt actions. If any movement produces sharp pain, stop immediately and discuss the advisability of exercise with the specialist treating you.
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