Back Pain

Winter months in the midwest obviously come with the chance of snow.  If you were anywhere near St. Louis the past few days, then you probably experience more than your fair share of snow.  Shoveling snow is great physical activity, and can actually be a decent workout on days when you can’t get out to … Read moreBack Safety Tips For Snow Shoveling

Low back pain is can be incredibly painful, and often scary.  If something hurts really bad, we assume that it must be a sign that something is really wrong.  However, in most cases, low back pain is nothing serious…it just hurts like the dickens.  Last post we looked at research showing that just knowing more … Read more7 Facts About Back Pain Every Person Needs To Know

If you read my previous post, you now know that no one type of exercise is better than any other type for recovering from lower back pain.  However, adding pain education to an exercise program can further improve results versus just exercise alone.  Two recent studies have demonstrated this.  In the first one, “De-educate to … Read moreLower back pain: knowledge is power

A recent research study on chronic low back pain sought to find if walking was more effective than other types of exercise for improving pain, disability, quality of life, and beliefs in patients with chronic low back pain.  To do this they searched for results from previous randomized controlled trials, which are considered to be … Read moreBest exercise for chronic low back pain?….Just move!