If you suffer from back pain wearing high heeled shoes maybe the trigger that leads to a flare up of your back pain. Do you ever wonder if your back pain is going to put an end to your ‘high heeled’ days? Or are you a mum who works in a high profile job where your high heels are a part of your everyday work attire?
In this blog, we are going to discuss five tips to manage your back pain while wearing heels.
This is a two part blog. In this first part lets talk about what happens when you wear high heels and how can it lead to back pain. This will give you a better understanding of the tips that we will be subsequently discussing.
When you wear high heels, your lower body .....
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Back and neck pains have become a part of everyday life for many people but did you know that pains at different times of the day may be a direct reflection of our daily habits and postures?
Many people suffer from pain at the end of the day despite being relatively pain free through the day. This implies that there has to be some kind of a trigger during the day that causes the pain to flare up at the end of the day. In some cases the pain can even flare up by late afternoon or early evening in people who start the day early in the morning.
In this blog we will explore why this happens and how we can avoid it with simple and easy solutions ....
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If you have ever had a sciatic nerve pain (sciatica), you know how painful and debilitating it can be. Sciatica can get aggravated with different activities and walking is a common one on this list. However, walking is one of the activities that cannot be avoided in our everyday life. In this blog we are going to talk about three tips that can help you reduce your sciatic nerve pain when you're walking.
Walking is an excellent form of exercise and it also releases endorphins, the feel good hormones. But when you have sciatic nerve pain, walking can be quite challenging due to either the back pain or leg pain or both. Lets talk about three tips that can help to reduce the chances of aggravating or flaring up your sciatica pain .....
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Do you wake up with stiffness in your back in the mornings?
If yes, consider this scenario: You don’t have any stiffness during the day or when you get to your bed and you sleep well but when you wake up in the morning especially as you are getting out of bed your back feels stiff. You feel the stiffness subsiding once you have been up and about for a while or after you have stretched and moved your body.
Does this sound familiar to you? Something seems to have caused the stiffness between going to bed and waking up. You have not been sitting in a chair or standing up at night. You are just simply sleeping. The only probable explanations are either a poor sleeping posture or the stresses that have built up through the night due to the static position of your spine, causing you to wake up with pain and/or stiffness in your back.
Lets look at three simple solutions to address your morning back stiffness .....
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Back pain is one of the most common complaints that people have. It is estimated that 8 out of 10 people will experience back pain at some point in their lives. So how do you know if you have a regular backache, or if you have something more serious? In this blog, we'll discuss the signs that indicate that you might have a serious back problem.
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