Posted on Sep 2, 2022
4 exercises that can prevent (and relieve!) pain from computer slouching and more : Life Kit
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What if there was a way to stop chronic pain in your body before it strikes?
That's the concept behind Vinh Pham's new book, Sit Up Straight: Futureproof Your Body Against Chronic Pain with 12 Simple Movements. Pham, a physical therapist with over a decade of experience, shares a set of exercises aimed at helping to prevent bodily pain that lasts for over three months due to injury, exercise, bad posture or other factors — and relieve it, too. Practicing these movements consistently, he says, can extend your range of motion and increase your flexibility.
"There's research to support the decrease in the incidence of chronic pain with the addition of exercise," says Christipher Bise, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences who researches lower back pain and is not affiliated with Pham's book. "Exercises that are going to balance the body front to back [such as mobility training] are really going to be the ones that help over time."
Life Kit asked Pham, the Los Angeles-based founder of the physical therapy studio Myodetox, to walk us through four movements that target areas prone to chronic pain, such as the neck, shoulders, spine and lower back.
What if there was a way to stop chronic pain in your body before it strikes?
That's the concept behind Vinh Pham's new book, Sit Up Straight: Futureproof Your Body Against Chronic Pain with 12 Simple Movements. Pham, a physical therapist with over a decade of experience, shares a set of exercises aimed at helping to prevent bodily pain that lasts for over three months due to injury, exercise, bad posture or other factors — and relieve it, too. Practicing these movements consistently, he says, can extend your range of motion and increase your flexibility.
"There's research to support the decrease in the incidence of chronic pain with the addition of exercise," says Christipher Bise, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences who researches lower back pain and is not affiliated with Pham's book. "Exercises that are going to balance the body front to back [such as mobility training] are really going to be the ones that help over time."
Life Kit asked Pham, the Los Angeles-based founder of the physical therapy studio Myodetox, to walk us through four movements that target areas prone to chronic pain, such as the neck, shoulders, spine and lower back.
4 exercises that can prevent (and relieve!) pain from computer slouching and more : Life Kit
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Extend your big toe
Try walking around for a bit without using your big toes and see how difficult it is. It may not seem obvious, but you need them to be able to walk and run properly. When movement of these toes are limited, it can change your gait and contribute to pain in the plantar fascia — the rubber band-like ligament that stretches from your heel to your toes — and tightness in the calf and hip, says Pham.
This exercise, called the Big Toe Extension, aims to relieve or guard against discomfort you might feel in your foot and calf. Put your big toe against a wall so it's pointing upward. Lock both your knees in a split stance and rock in and out of it ten times, moving slowly so each lunge forward lasts about two seconds. Switch and do the same exercise with your other leg."
..."Extend your big toe
Try walking around for a bit without using your big toes and see how difficult it is. It may not seem obvious, but you need them to be able to walk and run properly. When movement of these toes are limited, it can change your gait and contribute to pain in the plantar fascia — the rubber band-like ligament that stretches from your heel to your toes — and tightness in the calf and hip, says Pham.
This exercise, called the Big Toe Extension, aims to relieve or guard against discomfort you might feel in your foot and calf. Put your big toe against a wall so it's pointing upward. Lock both your knees in a split stance and rock in and out of it ten times, moving slowly so each lunge forward lasts about two seconds. Switch and do the same exercise with your other leg."
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Just did them...saved them as favorites on my computer. Many thanks!
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth We All Need a Few Helpful Tips! 46 Years I've been working with Keyboards and Computer Screens!
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