When you wake up in the morning, use a towel to help stretch your hamstrings. Hold the towel with both hands and have the sole of your foot plus your heel held by the towel. With your leg extended all the way, raise your foot as far up in the air as you can with your back straight on the bed, and hold for 30 seconds or so. Do the same with both legs.
If you have severe pain, forget the exercise and bite down on the towel as you drive to see your doctor. Exercise your back and legs as you have time, but a lot of lower back pain basically starts because of tight hamstrings. I'd expect anything that increases lower back strength and keeps your hamstrings in good condition or flexibility will help. -- Regards, Larry Weiner [email protected] On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Gilbert Wilson <[email protected]>wrote: > All: > > So, I've recently started going to yoga to help relieve my persistent back > pain. I hope it helps because I'm too young for this kind of rubbish. I've > been looking for lumbar support pillows and/or other devices that will force > me to not slouch while sitting at a desk. While looking at Amazon I > realized sending an email to the group might be really helpful. > > For those of you who have (or hopefully /had/) back pain what do/did you do > to relieve it? A particular kind of exercise? Physical therapy? Lumbar > pillows to stop slouching? Something else? A combination of things? > > If you don't want to discuss medical stuff on the list I'm open to direct > replies, and fully understand that such details are confidential. > > Gil > -- > Gilbert Wilson > http://www.boyonwheels.org > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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