Suffering from back pain? follow these 5 exercises to strengthen your spine

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Suffering From Back Pain? Follow These 5 Exercises to Strengthen Your Spine A well­conditioned back can withstand more stress and protect the spine better, than a back that has not been conditioned through exercise. Conditioning through flexibility and strengthening back exercises not only helps the back avoid injury, or minimize the severity of injury if the spine is traumatized, it also can help relieve the pain of many back conditions and improves spine anatomy. Many back exercises can help strengthen the spinal column and the supporting muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Most of these back exercises focus on not only the back, but also the abdominal muscles and gluteus and hip muscles. back conditioning exercises, that can be easily done at home are given below. 1. Bridging Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor and raise your bottom upward slowly. Continue lifting your bottom upward until there is a straight line from your shoulders to your knees. Hold this position 10­15 seconds.

2. Tabletop Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Raise your legs, one at a time, so that your knees are directly above your hips and your lower legs are parallel with the floor. Hold this position 10­15 seconds.


3. The dart Lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides. Lift the top of your head and your feet in opposite directions until your upper body, knees and feet are off the floor.

4. Forearm plank Lie on your stomach and rest on your forearms with your elbows directly under your shoulders. Press through your shoulder blades until they are spaced wide on your back. Next, tighten your abdominals to lift your waist off the floor. Form a straight line through your neck and upper body to your knees. 5. Airplaning From hands and knees position, extend your left leg behind you. Straighten your knee and hold your leg straight out from your hip. Hold your trunk steady as if there were a cup of coffee balancing on your back. Now, hold your left leg up and reach your right arm forward, maintaining a steady trunk.

Just follow these simple exercises and continue them regularly, and witness the wonders it does to condition your back and spine.


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