The Best Exercises for Back Pain

If you are suffering from back pain, even if this is something that you have been dealing with for your whole life, you should know that sure there are medicines and medications available that you can take for your pain, but there are also much simpler things that you can do as well.

Even just by doing quick exercises for back pain you can notice major relief and here are a few of the best.

Basic Twist

This is one of the easiest exercises for back pain that you will ever do. To perform it, all you have to do is lie on your back with your arms stretched to the sides, and then bend your knees and bring them up close to your chest. You want to be inhaling and exhaling deeply while you are doing this.

Now you take a deep breath, exhale as you slowly lower your knees to the floor and only go as far as comfortable. You do not want to strain your muscles, because you can end up getting injured this way. Now to finish you just inhale as you slowly return your knees to your chest, exhale as you slowly lower knees to the left side.

Then you inhale as you return your knees to your chest, and repeat this several times, breathing deeply the entire time.

Piriformis Stretch

This is another of the best exercises for back pain. It is called the piriformis stretch, and all you want to do is sit on a chair, place your left ankle over your right leg, just about the knee and lean forward. Then all you do is hold for about thirty seconds, and repeat on the other side.

The Cat

Or if you are interested in trying exercises for back pain you may want to try this, the cat. You just begin on all fours so that you look like a cat, and make sure that your hands are both directly underneath your shoulders and directly under your hips. If your hands are not in the proper position you are not going to perform the exercise properly.

Now you just inhale as you drop your tummy towards the floor and look up over your head, then exhale as you bring your tummy back up and round your back as you tuck in your chin. Concentrate on bending your spine comfortably while you are doing this.

Remember, the main aim here is to strengthen your core, and so focus on exercises for back pain that are going to concentrate on this.

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