Preventing Back Pain

Your spine, muscles, tendons and ligaments form an incredibly strong, flexible and supportive structure and you need to look after it

To prevent back pain , you need to improve the health of your spine, maintain good posture, lift carefully and keep fit and healthy. When the spine is strong and flexible, the muscles are better equipped to absorb shock before it reaches the joints, which is beneficial for back pain caused by conditions other than muscle strain e.g. herniated disc (slipped disc), sciatica, and back osteoarthritis.

It is proven and well documented, that strengthening and stretching the muscles that support the back can prevent back pain from recurring.

How Lifetime Health Can Help

Lifetime Health offers a range of supervised exercise programs for individuals and groups that will help prevent general aches and pains and further serious episodes of neck or back pain.

Many people with back pain don’t know whether it is safe to do exercise or if exercises will worsen their condition. Lifetime Health will prepare and train you so that you only participate at a level suited to your condition and do not enter into an exercise program that is too advanced too quickly. Programs will:

• Target the cause of your condition
• Help speed up your recovery process to facilitate healing
• Increase normal/daily activity
• Develop physical and mental well-being
• Strengthen weak muscles from inactivity or excessive bed rest