Is it a good idea to swim if your lower back is pinching in sacro-iliac joint area on one side?
Swimming is my mental health! But right now I can hardly bend forward, to right, or to left. Will be assessed by PT, but wondering whether anyone has had good experience swimming through back pain, or if this is likely to do me in.
Generally I do core strengthening, shoulder strengthening, lots of onland exercises, but for some reason this pinchy pain hath appeared.
Advice before I see PT? I NEED TO SWIM.
Gracias.
Isobel
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Make sure you're not swimming with your back arched. (I see a lot of people doing this.) As in, lifting your head out of the water all the time to look forward. Keep your neck straight on your spine, relaxed and looking down, and if you need to look forward, just make it a quick glance when your recovering arm is just starting to come forward out of the water.
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Make sure you're not swimming with your back arched. (I see a lot of people doing this.) As in, lifting your head out of the water all the time to look forward. Keep your neck straight on your spine, relaxed and looking down, and if you need to look forward, just make it a quick glance when your recovering arm is just starting to come forward out of the water.
