Simple Solutions For Chronic Low Back Pain

About 75 million U.S. adults experience some sort of chronic pain, with low-back pain among the most common complaints. 

Although you can get temporary symptomatic relief from medications like Tylenol, Motrin and Aleve, it’s by no means a permanent solution…and taking too many meds can cause other serious health complications. 

So what’s the best remedy for chronic low back pain?  Well, the solution comes from understanding how the problem first came about. 

Modern conveniences have made us increasingly more sedentary and less active.  This has contributed to our ever expanding waist line, as well as, all of the health problems associated with it.

Although being overweight definitely adds to the problem.  Surprisingly, it’s not the most common cause.
 
You may be surprised to find out what causes most low back pains and the shockingly simple solutions for it.

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Are Your Shoes Causing You Injuries?

Every few months all of the major footwear companies come out with their latest and greatest running shoes.  Some even have built-in computers that help you keep track of how much you ran! 

Nowadays every possible technology you can think of is being implemented into the shoes…heck with all of the money being spent on R&D, you’d think they’d be able to make shoes with wings so you can fly! 

Unfortunately, most of the new technologies are more about hype and marketing gimmick then anything that’s actually useful or beneficial. 

In fact, the latest research done on runners wearing the latest technologically advanced shoes, is that it actually puts more stress on your leg joints including your hips, knees and ankles than walking in a pair of high heels!  Can you imagine that? 

The truth is you don’t need to get caught up in the hype and pay hundreds of dollars for a pair of athletic shoes that may look nice, but can actually harm you.  There’s a much better solution that’ll save you a lot of money while improving your athletic performance and keep you injury free.  Check out the full story below. 

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Forget Everything You’ve Heard About Muscle!

The fitness community has always been obsessed about muscle and how it makes us lean, fit, and strong, but there’s a group of researchers that argue that our focus has been on the wrong part of the anatomy, especially when it comes to maximizing your fitness potential while staying injury free.

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Achy Knees & Ankles Got You Down?  This Exercise Can Help…

Have you ever suffered from aches and pains in your knees and ankles…perhaps after a long run or a vigorous workout?  If you have, you’re definitely not alone - and no, you don’t have to be over the hill to suffer from aches and pains!  Achy joints can occur in anyone, but not to worry…I’ll show you a simple exercise that you can do that’ll help strengthen and protect your joints, so you can stop popping ibuprofen like candy. 

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6 Shoulder Mobility Exercises To Help You Increase Your Flexibility & Avoid Injury

As you may already know (or experienced), shoulder instability is a common issue that can lead to serious injury later on. From years of bad posture to overuse through sports or other repetitive activities, there are many reasons you might lose flexibility in your shoulders. The good news is that you can reverse these problems or even prevent them altogether.

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How To Use Your Biggest Fat Burning Muscles—Without Killing Your Knees

It’s no secret that the biggest fat burning muscles in your body are your legs.  They are the largest muscles in your body and therefore require the most amount of energy when used.  Since your legs are the primary muscles that drive your heart rate up, the more you use them the harder your heart pumps.  And the harder your heart works, the more calories you burn and the fitter you get.  So if you want to keep up your fitness and fat burning progress, you’d better take care of your legs—especially your knees.

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Dynamic Warm Up Exercises To Keep You Injury-Free

Warming up is one of those things that is either completely overlooked or done wrong.  The biggest mistake people still make today (even though every trainer, health magazine, and fitness books tell you not to do) is static stretching.

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The One Stretch That Can Help You Avoid Lower Back Pain

As you may already know, I’m not the biggest fan of static stretching.  Which is why you won’t see any photos or videos of me doing any static stretching in my book or website.  But, there is one static stretch that I do like.  It’s a Hip Flexor Stretch. 

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Keep Your Knees Happy By Doing These Simple Things

How do you save your knees while exercising?  Your knees are the life line to your fitness, since using your legs is the best way to increase total energy expenditure when working out and is completely necessary to perform full body functional exercises, as well as cardio. So I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at your knee and see how common problems arise and how we can prevent them.

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Is Proper Lifting Technique Overrated?

If proper technique is not required to lift heavy objects, than I expect to grow wings with enough Red Bull consumption. At least that’s the way I felt when I initially saw the article titled, “Training On The Correct Way To Lift Heavy Objects Does Not Prevent Back Pain”.

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Lifting Weights…A Remedy For Low Back Pain?

For those of you that have ever experienced low back pain you know how debilitating it can be.  But there’s a surprisingly simple remedy that can help relieve the pain for many people.

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