A Trick to Alleviate Back Pain

Want to learn a new trick to help back pain?

To get started I need a volunteer from the audience. How about…YOU! Come on up and tell me your name and where you’re from.

That’s great! Good to meet you. Here’s what I want you to do. Stand up nice and tall and take a deep breath. Great. Now push the fingers of each hand into the sides of your stomach. Not too hard, but enough that you can feel it.

Awesome. Now here’s the trick.

Using your abs, push your fingers out. Feel that? Feel that pressure going all around your midsection? That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you engage your core. Not by sucking in, like so many people think, but by pushing out! This is how to properly engage your core and that’s what can help with your back pain!

Next time your back feels a little tweaky, try this and feel the difference in what engaging your core the right way can do.

Let’s give our volunteer a hand, folks. They did a wonderful job. You can head back to your seat now. Thanks!

What to do with this information?

The next time you have back pain, do this little trick to engage your core. It may not completely fix the pain…after all I’m not your doctor and I can’t diagnose you through my laptop…but maybe it’ll help a little bit and understanding how your body works can be one of the most empowering things you can every know.