Back to a Bad Back By Mrs Vera West

I have had a bad back for a long time, with arthritis in the lower discs. While I can still get around with a walking stick, I feel my mobility decreasing year by year. It is scary, indeed, and a bane of one’s life. But, better than being dead, though.

I have been reading two classic books on treating bad backs naturally, since the surgical options are limited, I think even orthodoxy admits this. The books are Hans Kraus, Backache, Stress, and Tension, (2012), and Norman Marcus, end Back Pain Forever, (2012). The key figure here is Dr Hans Kraus, who treated President John F. Kennedy’s back pain, after all other treatments had failed, with success.

In a nutshell, the idea of Dr Kraus, developed by Dr Marcus, is to treat the muscles, not with aerobics as traditionally done, but by a series of special exercises. Both books go into great detail about the origins of pain, but really those of us with bad backs are mainly interested in what to do to get relief.

There are a series of exercises described, and apparently that is all one needs. These are a bit hard to describe without diagrams, but I mention some basics. First, are relaxation exercises, such as deep breathing with shoulder shrugs. Then frog-leg release, head rotations, knee-to-chest release, side slide, buttocks squeeze, double knee to chest, cat stretch, partial sit up, pectoral stretch, seated forward bend in chair, bicycle hamstring stretch, full-sit up, and others. Some of these which require being on the floor are beyond me, I would get down and not get back up again, but some exercises I can do, and will do, those that stretch the back muscles, softly.

Of course, one of the big problems is long hours at the computer, and even many young people are getting bad backs from this. It is necessary to get up at least every half an hour for a bit of a stretching maybe a quick walk. This is difficult for many people in the new sweat shops of today, where instead of sweating over a machine on a production line, one is chained to a computer, crying electronic tears.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3055658/5-simple-exercises-to-fix-the-damage-your-desk-job-does#:~:text=Sitting%20chained%20to%20your%20desk,common%20work%2Drelated%20back%20problem.&text=Slumping%20back%20in%20your%20desk,and%20muscles%20in%20your%20back.

 

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