main focuses we were going to talk about back pain at me because 17 million
people are affected by that in the UK that's over one-third of the adult
population however if you're suffering anything from my Manor twinge to an ich
you can make a difference here is Coby Langford to tell you one we hope
back pain needn't be a life sentence amazingly ninety percent of back pain is
not serious and only ten percent requires medical attention I've suffered
with back pain since my early 20s the pain is always there but some days it's
so bad I can't glow I just have to stay home and lie out straight until the pain
subsides the causes of back pain are surprisingly simple the muscles and
consequently the joints are either too stiff and tight or to mobile and too
weak both of which result in pain
and he's around to the right lovely and I in the back heel to raise up off the
floor perfect whether you have chronic back pain or just a slight niggle in my
experience your back pain can be dramatically reduced by doing the
correct exercises that target the specific tissues that are causing your
problem and twist around to the front lovely bringing the lip right foot
forward and allow the left foot to twist out to the left and worse around to the
left allowing the right here to raise up getting a lovely twist through these
tissues here
you don't need to do ours now as a laborious exercises even if you can
dedicate 15 minutes a day you will really help to reduce your baby and
relax well we'll be joins me now with back pain sufferer Jane hodgkin's or
should I see former back being softer because you've seen no you feel great
yeah it's amazing hello fantastic how long did it take to feel better I've
been doing the program for four weeks so far four weeks rent and did you notice
the different traitor we're was you notice a difference probably the last
week to two weeks as well it's been significant and before that were you
taken medication for your back p no I wasn't taking medication i would take
painkillers when i got really bad and no i wasn't taking anything for right but
with this presumably no side effects at all you know you just you doona it
looked very gentle actually it was quite gentle carbon chains intent is targeted
to certain muscles of the back so you're really kind of targeting exercises to
the muscles that need strengthening and certain muscles need stretching but it's
kind of like a formula because obviously if you do strengthening exercises on
muscles that are too tight you're just going to send them into spasm and you're
going to make your back pain work right and if you do a really strong stretching
program on over mobile joints you're going to make yourself you can
destabilize your back I'm going to make it worse so you find that sometimes you
can make your back pain worse and if you tell me what you're doing so you have to
know what your daddy really do really really do so drew yoga it's called this
this sort of discipline of yoga can you go and have lessons in this or you go to
a practitioner to help you out oh no you know thus created class is all over the
world and factor all over the UK so absolute you can go to classes or you
can come someone like myself where if you want to target back pain we do train
when I teach on through yoga teacher training course like a train our
teachers how to address back pain so really I say if you have back pain and
you want to try yoga for your back pain do try yoga because it's they're trained
to hear ya so you have to you have to be careful about to do it helidon s is good
because again there's no side effects is clearly working for you working very
well for you which is fantastic and also I suppose what's really good is you
you're doing it not yourself you did it together but you've taken control of
your onus of your yeah you can do it yourself and it's
actually quite easy it's easy to do you don't need to be a yoga expert oh you
know what you're doing I guess it's a good idea it's another way is very good
ninety percent of all back pain would respond to something like this and I
wish there was a Kobe in every GP surgery thank you know because you know
so many back pains would respond just to lifestyle changes to exercise which is
targeted to the area that's concerned and I think the conventional medical
fraternity are very poor at diagnosing back pain and sorting it out we don't
assess properly we just say well just rest up and you know give it six weeks
but actually rest is the last thing you should be doing you should be
strengthening those weak muscles because the muscles support the spine and ease
the pain so pain killers have side effects this doesn't and this would
actually be very cost effective if the NHS but it in place it's not money it
cause back pain you don't even think they meant people that off there were
absolutely and of course work is work the workplace is is an area where a lot
of people initiate their problems that the you know the seat aren't in the
right place for the desk so they're looking at the right angle in the neck
is constantly in one wrong position that lumber spine is in the wrong place and
it's very important that people get their workplace it says if at there are
five tips that I would give people the first is to have your workstation assess
make sure you're in the right angle your posture is good I mean you look at the
Waco be sitting there I know and get some supportive you've got pain in your
lumber spine or elsewhere get a support for that area so that it's actually you
know got some s and support behind it get up and walk around every 40 minutes
if you're sitting at work at a desk get up every 40 minutes or so minimum have a
little walk have a little stretch as well stretch every couple of hours in a
minimum and drink lots of water to keep healthy dehydration doesn't help muscles
just live sensibly and it does pay dividends and these exercises you've got
back pain much better than painkillers much better than epidurals much better
than anything that lets us traditional doctors do you have a fantastic
but mostly and it's all it's all about being able to do it by yourself as well
you know when she once you know when she got the skills then you can I found I
could puncture from my bed back worked really well because the medication was
really upsetting my stomach and the acupuncture works beautifully so worth a
try absolutely I'm sorts of special seats you know the exercise balls that
you can sit on four core strength at lunch back and back saddle seats are
very good cheer all sorts of seating that you can get in your workstation to
to help don't suffer in silence thank you very much HC thank you
