Lower back pain?

Everyone is going to give you different advice on this one. Here are my two cents. I suffer from back pain from time to time and my quick fix involves taking muscle relaxants and doing some very mild stretching. This means lying on the floor on my back and very gently hugging both my thighs to my chest raising my bum off the ground in the process. Next I repeat with each leg individually. Generally, after 3 or 4 days of this treatment I am about 80% better already. Far more important than curing the symptoms (although I am sure this is foremost in your mind at the moment), is long term preventative exercises. It is so easy to forget the pain once it subsides and slip back into your bad posture habits. Once again everyone is going to have their favourite back strengthening exercises. If you are familiar with yoga you will know about the Sun Salutation warm up. I do these every morning shortly after getting up. I swear by them. It would be too complicated to explain them here but if you Google: sun salutation exercises or salute to the sun or some variation I am sure you will come up with literally hundreds of explanations on how to them. I will see if i can find a link with diagrams and post later. Syd Ok found a link with graphics (moving ones too)! www.santosha.com/.../suryanamaskar.html Print these out, stick them to your wall and when this pain is sorted out, start doing them everymorning when you get up.

Everyone is going to give you different advice on this one. Here are my two cents. I suffer from back pain from time to time and my quick fix involves taking muscle relaxants and doing some very mild stretching. This means lying on the floor on my back and very gently hugging both my thighs to my chest raising my bum off the ground in the process. Next I repeat with each leg individually. Generally, after 3 or 4 days of this treatment I am about 80% better already. Far more important than curing the symptoms (although I am sure this is foremost in your mind at the moment), is long term preventative exercises. It is so easy to forget the pain once it subsides and slip back into your bad posture habits. Once again everyone is going to have their favourite back strengthening exercises. If you are familiar with yoga you will know about the Sun Salutation warm up. I do these every morning shortly after getting up. I swear by them. It would be too complicated to explain them here but if you Google: sun salutation exercises or salute to the sun or some variation I am sure you will come up with literally hundreds of explanations on how to them. I will see if i can find a link with diagrams and post later. Syd Ok found a link with graphics (moving ones too)! www.santosha.com/.../suryanamaskar.html Print these out, stick them to your wall and when this pain is sorted out, start doing them everymorning when you get up.