Common Practice to Avoid Lifting With Bad Back is WRONG!
New research demonstrates that healthy discs require lifting to maintain the proper flow of nutrients. So exercise is what actually keeps discs healthy and happy.
If you STOP exercising and using your back, the discs deteriorate faster, potentially increasing your back pain. One more reason why the very best treatments for back pain involve strategic exercises to maintain more balanced and healthy function.
The clinical study results found in a recent paper on back pain from disc degeneration published in PLoS Computational Biology, cited researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia. They reported that normal loading allows healthy transportation of nutrients and solutes into the disc tissues.
Degenerative disc changes appear to slow-down or block the transport of nutrients and oxygen into the discs. Movement and loading help the transport process.
Tip for Back Pain: Don’t do Nothing, Do Something – Exercise. And the best exercises for your low back pain? Pattern-recognition based exercises are up to 10.85 times more effective at cutting pain than the “usual medical approach” – pain pills, muscle relaxers, physical therapy/’feel-good’ treatments like ultrasound, electrical stim and traction machines.
