Posts Tagged ‘back injuries’

Enhance Spine Health With Simple, Everyday Easy Ergonomics

February 19th, 2012

If you are putting in more than eight hours of work in your desk bound job for more than a year now, and seldom take work breaks in between, you have probably developed muscle aches and pain on your neck, shoulders, and throughout your back. To enhance your spine health, you need consciously have a good mix of exercise and good sitting habits.

You body will hint to you when you need to begin taking note of the way your sit, the way you slouch in your seat, the type of heels you wear, and literally the lifestyle you lead. Body aches in different parts of the body like neck, shoulders, arms, legs and back can develop from overtime work, bad sitting habits, lack of exercise, and especially a lifestyle of decadence. In fact, even simple lifestyle changes like a new work desk or chair, a new car or a new sofa could literally give you bad body aches. » Read more: Enhance Spine Health With Simple, Everyday Easy Ergonomics

Yoga and Health - Backache Relief

April 8th, 2011

For many of us backache is a normal way of life. What we don’t realise is that much of the pain we feel is our own fault. Bad posture causes more backache than we may think. Yoga and health seeks to address this. We don’t need to be either injured or ill to suffer debilitating back pain. The main support of our back and upper torso is the spine. The spine is chiefly made up of thirty three vertebrae with connecting ligaments and muscles. Down the middle of the spine is the spinal canal which carries the spinal cord, a huge array of nerves being connected from the brain to their final destination all over our body.

If our posture is poor, whether when walking or even sitting, the connective tissues in the spine become stressed. As we get older it is quite normal for the joints of the spine to suffer a level of wear and tear. A stressed spine can be painful, but if the spine is both stressed, and worn, backache becomes » Read more: Yoga and Health - Backache Relief