If this title caught your attention, you must probably love gardening. How nice it is to tend to a beautiful garden, but I am pretty sure you don’t appreciate the discomfort and pain in your back that most often comes with it.
Gardening involves a lot of bending, reaching, pulling and twisting. We may not realize it now, but the effort we exert and how we carry out these physical activities can affect our over-all health. An improper bend or twist can gradually wear out our spine and strain our muscles in the back, shoulders, legs and wrists.
If you experience pain or occasional aches due to gardening, now is the time for you to make changes in your gardening routine. Chiropractors suggest a proper way to sit, bend, reach, and twist the body in such a way that you put the least pressure on your spine and muscles. An improper body technique, posture and form while gardening can put undue stress on your body. Thus, you must kneel instead of bending, and alternate your stance as often as you can to maintain your balance.
Aside from this, you should have a proper warm-up, stretching and cool-down period as in any other physical activity. Your stretching exercises do not have to be rigid; you can do the simplest stretching you know for at least 10 minutes.
Gardening is a fun activity, but it can involve some work that may wear out our spine and muscles. However, if you are careful, you can prevent possible spinal and health problems. For more suggestions on how to take better care of your body, you can visit a chiropractor nearest you.