Five Simple Yet Effective exercises For Chronic Back PAin

These chronic back pain exercises are easy to integrate in everyday life.

1. Relaxed back bending

The goal of this exercise to get your back to work less & get your legs to work more. If we can get the legs to do more work, the back won't feel a need to be so tight & in protection mode.

Relaxed back bending is an especially great exercise for those who need to bend over a lot for work i.e. Tradies, teachers, pickpackers etc.

2. Side lying quiet nose breathing

The goal of this exercise to get your back muscles to relax at night. This is going to help with improving sleep & reducing back pain in the morning.

An exceptional exercise for chronic back pain sufferers to implement in their sleeping schedule.

3. Nasal breathing in car

Our goal is to get your back to relax when driving. Many chronic pain patients have pain in sitting positions & when driving. This is a great strategy to help people sitting without pain.

This exercise is great for those that have chronic lower back pain when seated. This could be in the car, at a desk or whenever seated.

4. Single leg hamstring bridge

Our goal is to get our hamstrings work harder which may take excessive stress of your back.

The single leg hamstring bridge is a staple exercise for back pain sufferers with a history of knee, ankle or hip pain.

5. Relaxed sit to stand

Similarly to exercise no.1 our goal is to get the back from doing too much work when from sitting to standing. The legs can be strengthen if we can keep the back relaxed which may in turn get your back working less reducing chronic pain.

This is a great exercise to get our leg to take more stress off our back when going from sitting to standing. An invaluable tool for chronic back pain sufferers.