Back Pain and Stiffness after Walking?
Walking should reduce back pain and stiffness because it gets you moving around. Unfortunately this is not always the case.
Even as a teenager, I can remember walking through the mall with my younger sister. After a while of walking, I had to stop and stretch my back. The most effective way of doing this was to squat. Can you imagine how embarrassing that must have been for both me and my sister? Me squatting right there in the middle of the mall with all those people walking past? (I actually laugh now thinking about it, but it wasn’t funny then.)
Well, the same thing still happens to me today after I walk on my treadmill. Thanks to my chiropractor, my spine has loosened up enough that I can get it to “adjust itself” after I walk. (By doing that same squat in the privacy of my own home.)
But it does make me wonder why, after years of chiropractic care, I still have the same problem. A friend sent me a link that might explain it: LoseTheBackPain.com. It talks about how muscle imbalances are the cause for a majority of back pain.
Don’t get me wrong. I love my chiropractor. She works on releasing the sublaxations (misalignments) in my spine which makes me healthier and relieves muscle pain. Some sublaxations cause muscle imbalances. AND… some muscle imbalances cause sublaxations. Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Who cares? Just fix it! LOL!
Really. It makes sense to me that using the LoseTheBackPain System along with my chiropractic care is the most logical solution. It will take care of both the chicken and the egg!!