back pain

Society has a tendency to excuse personal weaknesses as fixed traits, rather than obstacles that can be overcome with training and the proper approach. We are conditioned to want a quick fix for our ... Continue Reading

The discs that make up our spine are super-hydrated and fat when we wake in the morning. Sounds good, right? But as we sit through the day, our hip flexors tighten, our glutes quit working, and our ... Continue Reading

If you’re struggling with tension or pain in your back, it’s more than a nuisance. It affects your quality of movement from the ground up. Your back—specifically your spine—is literally the axis you ... Continue Reading

Throughout my seven years on the gym floor, the most common complaint I hear is lower back pain during abdominal exercises. The most common culprits are the plank and the leg raise. As frustrating ... Continue Reading

Have you ever had back pain? After it went away, did it come back again? Did that motivate you to do more ab and core work? Did it still come back? The recurrence of back pain despite doing back and core ... Continue Reading

Last week I pointed out that it is a lack of balance that leads us to pain, whether it is too much exercise or too little. Balance, though, goes beyond just what we do physically. Balance also refers to ... Continue Reading

Chronic lower back pain is a major health problem that affects 85% of Americans, and costs the U.S. economy around $100 billion every year. The pain often comes from one of the 23 discs that are critical ... Continue Reading

Everyone knows the abundance of benefits that accompanies exercise. A new experimental study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia suggests that in addition to the known benefits, exercise also helps to ... Continue Reading