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TIPS TO PREVENT BACK PAIN AND SCIATICA: GOOD POSTURE – THE KEY TO A LESS TROUBLESOME BACK
Posted on April 29, 2009, under Pain Relief-Muscle Relaxers.
Posture – that is how the various parts of your body are positioned at a given time – will greatly affect how much pressure is exerted upon your spine as well as, perhaps more importantly, how that pressure is exerted. As we’ve seen, the spine is at best a somewhat unstable structure whose design is such that it takes relatively little of the wrong kind of pressure to set off back pain. The ‘building-blocks’ that make up the spine will be at their most effective and stable in carrying the weight of the upper body when your back is relatively straight, as well as supported correctly whenever support is possible or available. Translating these general principles into specific recommendations, you’ll reduce the demands placed upon your spine by following these guidelines:
When walking, try to maintain as upright a posture as possible, keeping your shoulders reasonably far back rather than allowing them to drop forwards. Keep your head up straight – as though it were suspended from an imaginary ‘sky hook’.
Also, seek to maintain an upright posture when standing still. However, if you have to stand still for any length of time, do try to move somewhat, even if it’s only a few steps, at frequent intervals. Not only will this make it easier for you to stand upright and avoid slouching, it will also help the blood circulate better to your legs and lower body.
When seated, make sure that the chair you’re using gives good support for the small of your back and also is of the correct height for you. Heavily-padded ‘soft’ chairs you sink into are usually bad news for your back as is half-lying, half-sitting on a sofa or large easy chair. Once again, try to keep your spine and head as upright as possible.
Other excellent recommendations to reduce the risk of back and muscle trouble are to be found in Muscles Matter, a booklet published by DDD/Dendron Ltd, the makers of Ibuleve, from which many of these tips for members of groups especially at risk have been extracted.
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THE CRAMPS (SPASMODIC DYSMENORRHOEA): THE SYMPTOMS
Posted on April 28, 2009, under Pain Relief-Muscle Relaxers.
If you suffer from the cramps you may get very little warning that your period is on its way. Some women feel niggling pains for a few hours before the flow starts, some have bad headaches and some tend to feel sick. But many have no warning at all. The flow of blood and extreme pain start together. Some women have very bad pain for the first day and then it clears; others are in pain for almost the entire period. Some are constipated, which makes the pain even worse; others have sickness or diarrhoea.
It’s a very natural reaction to tense your body against pain. We all do it. But one of the many annoying things about tension is that the more tense you are, the more acutely you experience pain. The more relaxed you are, the less acute the pain. Incidentally, this works in almost exactly the opposite way for pleasure. If you’re tense even the most pleasurable sensations and experiences can leave you cold and unmoved. But when you relax you increase the pleasure you feel.
If you’ve been practising relaxation for three weeks or so and it’s made sense to you, you may well find that your next period is already less painful. You may now be able to cope quite easily by relaxing for an hour or two and you may find that the pain almost goes away when you are not so tense. Alternatively, you may perhaps find that although you can relax well when you are practising, it’s more difficult when the pain begins. You may need two or three months’ practice before you get the whole thing under control, but every month should see an improvement.
You may find you are still experiencing a lot of pain, but have recognized that it isn’t one long continuous agony but a series of pains, with gaps between one and the next. Each pain is rather like a surf wave, starting fairly gradually, building up to a climax and then gradually dying away again. Severe pains like this are like labour pains, and you need all the help you can get. Fortunately the same techniques often work for both. So if you have recognized this sort of sequence in your period pain, here’s a trick to help you.
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