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How to Baby Your Back
Posted by: | CommentsYou will not appreciate your back until it is injured. United Kingdom residents do not tend to worry about their back and its muscles until they suffer from a back injury and end up lying flat on their back and missing the days in which movement was easy and pain free. Once injured, most people take steps to ensure that their backs stay as healthy as possible. The most frustrating part of injuring a back muscle is the knowledge that a few simple precautions could have kept the injury from happening altogether. Here are some suggestions to keep back injuries from happening.
1) Instead of using your back to sit up when you wake up each morning, use your hips to lean forward. Do not arch your back. Instead use your elbows as levers to raise your upper body up off of the bed and then balance your weight on your hands as you let your legs carry your body around and into a sitting position.
2) If you sleep on your back try to keep your legs bent a little bit or put a pillow under your knees to support the weight of your legs. It put less strain on the muscles in your back.
3) Sleeping on your stomach is terrible for your back and you should avoid it.
4) You might like the soft cushion of a springy mattress, but a firm mattress is much better for your back. If you have a back disorder, ask your doctor what kind of mattress you should invest in.
5) Rotate your mattress every few months and flip it at least twice during the year to ensure that it wears out evenly and provides your back with as much support as possible.
6) Lift with your knees and do not lift with your back. This has been repeated so often it has almost become a clich. This does not mean, however, that it is not true. It is always better to let your knees and hips do the work.
7) Always have proper posture while you are sitting or standing. This helps your body better support the weight of your upper half and takes the strain off of supporting your weight off of your spine. It also looks a lot better than slumping over your desk or leaning back in your chair!
Here is the proper way to get out of a car: swing your legs toward the open doorway and let the momentum from that swirl your torso and head. Use your arms and hands to either push up off of seat or place your hands on the door’s frame and then pull yourself up and out of the car. Bend with your knees and hips.
