Luck favours the prepared

Being prepared for back pain is probably the smartest way to look at it if you ask me. Ever taken a trip to the Doctor or Physio for pain, and end up leaving no different than you went in?

Well your probably asking the wrong question, maybe the right question is, is pain normal?

Is pain is normal?, normal is described as the usual, typical, or expected state or condition, and when considering normal are we doing in our daily lives normal for what our bodies are designed to do? Is running 40km normal, 6 - 24hr triathlons, or sitting for 8 or 10 hours a day in a position that compromises our physical structure. My point is when considering what we do as human, we should be considering pain normal and pain management part of our daily lives if we are to do these extreme activities with our bodies.

Anything we do could be considered normal to ourselves, so maybe it is normal that injures will occur, strains, breaks and of course imbalances in our bodies that will create themselves problems or injuries should be considered normal and that to a certain point back pain is only normal because we as human put so much stress and are constantly challenging the back and loading it up, 90% of the times we are already putting out back under too much load by improper posture or insufficient movements because we just are not strong enough or nimble.

To just focus on back pain is enough to create a debate or what are the greater causes of it and the best ways to fix it. There’s my argument there; why should it just be a fix, why is there not more prevention and preparing for such things to happen? Any true people teach prevention and prepare their clients, teams, kids to prepare. Not just try to fix the problem after its been done. Go down with your kids at school and see how many can touch their toes without bending the legs, see how good they are at squatting, kids up so a certain age haven't yet undeveloped the ability to squat as more sitting and less moving starts hip mobility goes and comes with it shoulder problems, neck problems, knee problems, feet problems.

Back pain and blaming it on heavy lifting at work or training or even everyday objectives, is ridiculous!

If the body couldn't move in that way then you wouldn't be able to move in that way. Safely training and training to lift is one thing, but simply picking your child up or a bag from a bent back position should be easy to everyone no matter what age or profession. Granted actual old people have real reasons and there is always exceptions to the rule, but in the general population should have no problem.

Which leaves us with proper movement, which should be our goal to improve back pain and strength, people are now in 2 groups, those of us who are too weak, and those of us who are strong but have very little mobility, both of those groups need to be both strong and posses the ability to move. THAT is real goal and THAT is the real problem. Stretching and mobilisation should be part of our lives get up stretch when waking up, even cats, dogs, horses, chimps, and monkeys stretch throughout the day what makes humans so unable to grasp the basic we use to do.

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