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Walking for lower back pain can decrease pain and train the core muscles
Research proves that staying active and moving decreases the severity of lower back pain and improves function.
Often times people do the opposite. They become inactive and move less.
Moving and exercising may scare you because you feel like it could make your symptoms worse. And you don’t know how to move or what exercises to do.
This is where walking comes in.
Walking for lower back pain has been proven to decrease symptoms and to promote healing. The key is walking the right way.
You want to walk at a brisk pace and swing your arms. Walking fast and swinging your arms results in two main benefits. The tissues of your lumbar spine are loaded enough to facilitate the healing process but not to the point of increased tissue micro-trauma. The trunk/core muscles are engaged in a functional pattern to stabilize the lumbar spine while you’re moving through your hips and shoulders.
Gentle loading of the lumbar tissues with trunk muscle activation is what your lower back needs to heal and to stay healthy and pain-free.
Walking is therapeutic in and of itself. Start walking today, the right way. Slower, leisurely walking may actually increase your lower back symptoms. So remember to walk at a fast pace with arm swing.
Start out walking ten to fifteen minutes daily and build up to thirty to forty-five minutes over the next month.
Not only will you have less lower back pain, you’ll be in better shape overall.
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