How improving your wellbeing helps manage back pain - principle four to manage back pain
Oct 06, 2022
You can reduce and prevent back pain by improving your wellbeing and practicing being grateful.
How? There is a psychosocial connection to pain. The physical pain, versus the emotional pain, they register in the same part of the brain. If you can introduce this practice of gratitude, it can help manage your pain. Practice being thankful for the things that you do have. If you focus on the bad, that's what you'll see. If you focus on the good that is what you will see.
Your whole wellbeing is a huge contributor to your back health. Our top tips:
- Get good sleep
- Stop smoking. If you are a smoker, it would be really beneficial for your back pain to stop.
- Reduce stress.
- Eat well, even supplement.
- Exercise - Increase the variety of your movement and make it fun!
Exercise is helpful for back pain, and the best exercise is the type you enjoy. It is recommended that more than 30 minutes per day has the greatest health benefits, but any amount you can manage will result in benefit.
If you are going to introduce more activity into your daily life, find activities that bring you joy. Why? Because joy can help reduce some stress and may relieve some pain. Introduce three things each day that make you feel good. Find activities that boost your endorphin levels, such as aerobic exercise, massage therapy, walking and talking with a friend, yoga, or meditation. Endorphins are hormones made naturally in your body. What many people don’t know is that endorphins may help block pain signals from registering in your brain. Endorphins also help alleviate anxiety, stress, and depression, which are all associated with chronic back pain and often make the pain worse.
It’s important you get a variety of movement. Even try sleeping on different side of the bed each night, to introduce the variety of starting your day in a completely different way. Think about it, each morning a different leg will lead you into the day. The back is designed to do heavy lifting, bending, twisting and all manner of movement. So, get moving, even if only in a modified manner after experiencing pain or an injury to maintain your back health. The key thing is practice and let your body get used to different loads and weights.
I move, therefore I am – Haruki Murakami
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