Back In Shape Podcast

🎙️ Is Running Good If You Have Lower Back Pain? Running can sometimes be a supposed source of lower back pain but more often than not it is aggravating a weak or previously injured lower back. Like so many things, it comes down to how you go about running as well as the complimentary activities you're doing to reinforce your lower back health and resilience. This week we map out three steps that y...

🎙️ The Secret Of How To Improve Vitality As You Get Older This weeks episode is all about the one major way that you can maintain vitality as you get older. Depending on how well you have been keeping up with this to date, you might find that you end up having more vitality in the next 5 years than perhaps you've had in the recent decade or longer. Check out the full release below: 🗞️Issue 31 - Th...

🎙️ Diagnosed With Spondylolisthesis Causing Back Pain Or Sciatica? This is one of those more severe diagnosis that can be considered a cause of your lower back pain or sciatica, however, in many cases you'll likely have been walking around with this condition for some time without any symptoms to speak of, in spite of the present pain you might find yourself in. Today we talk about this rather mor...

🎙️ 3 Pillars To Fix Back Pain For Good   So how does this all play into getting your back fixed, and fixed for good? Well, today we thought it prudent to propose 3 “pillars” that will ensure that your back recovers, for the long term, but not just your back, your whole body. Because let’s face it, there is a limited understanding, only in the last week a member had been advised post low back...

🎙️ Is Walking Good For Back Pain Or Not? Like anything it would be nice if there were a nice and easy yes or no answer to the question of whether walking is bad for back pain and sciatica. It would seem that even the topic of walking, something so simple, the answer is rather varied. Today we will try to give you a full account on the benefits as well as the hazards when it comes to walking with a...

🎙️ Why Back Pain Keeps Coming Back & How To Stop It   Back Pain and Sciatica are problems that are often rooted in history with many factors that contribute to the injury and its continued poor condition. The reality is that until you've addressed these contributing factors properly and begun to make significant strengthening improvements, their influence on your road to recovery will be...

🎙️ How To Get Back In Shape After Time Out Every year brings new opportunities to get back in shape and make positive changes in our lives. However, it's important to avoid overdoing it and causing injuries by trying to do too much too soon. It's important to have a plan and to make sure you're consistently challenging your body by increasing weights or changing up your workouts. Injur...

🎙️ Spinal Decompression For Lower Back Pain Spinal decompression is a topic that is something you’re going to come into contact with one way or another if you have back pain, or sciatica, at some point sooner or later. It is however a term that is used by many different professions, and even within professions to mean different things. Today we’ll explore our take on spinal decompression, why it i...

🎙️ How Knee Pain Develops With Back Pain You might be thinking what on earth knee pain has to do with the lower back, and that’s understandable, however today we’re going to make the case for the intrinsic relationship between these two areas. Particularly for those who’ve had more long standing back troubles. Be they sciatica, be they back pain specifically. And to the degree you have a more form...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 22: What Causes Neck Pain & How To Fix It Neck pain and injuries share so many similarities with the lower back: the forces at play that challenge them, the way they are designed, as well as the way in which misguided approaches encourage excessive flexion as a treatment approach. Understanding the structure of your neck and the way in which it functions will le...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 21: How To Lose Weight When You Have Back Pain It almost goes without saying that carrying extra weight when you have a lower back injury is not helpful. Because of this it is very easy to take actions that make your back pain worse in the noble pursuit of weight loss. There is however a better and more sensible way to proceed that will combat both the back pain, an...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 20: Should You Flatten Your Lower Back For Back Pain Relief Anyone who’s been unlucky enough to experience sciatica or low back pain will know that the first thing you’re instructed to do to “relieve your back pain” involves flattening your lower back, or in some cases actually rounding it completely. This is supposed to provide relief of pain and you’ll find immedi...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 19: Relieve Spinal Stenosis In The Lower Back Spinal Stenosis in the lower back can be associated with a variety of symptoms from sciatic type symptoms of pain down the leg, to hip pain and localized pain in the lower back. It is a diagnosis that deflates those who receive it, not least because it has a shroud of mystery to it. Our task today is to help you better u...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 18: How To fix Sacroiliac Joint Pain With Exercises The sacroiliac joint is a joint in the body that is quite different to many others and when pain occurs in the vicinity of the sacroiliac joints it can be somewhat confusing as to what can be done to help it. This poor understanding of the region is fundamentally why so many people struggle to make improvements wit...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 17: Why Hip Degeneration With Lower Back Pain Is Common In those with chronic and long standing lower back pain, it is common that the factors that have led to the injury of the lower back have also taken their toll on the lower body joints as well. This is why it is common that we find that those with lower back pain will have hip issues too. In today’s article we’...

Today's podcast we explore if stretching can help for lower back pain or if it can be something that gets in the way of your recovery. 🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 16: Nearly all cases of lower back pain involve a degree of stiffness developing in the lower back when you have an injury. Back pain is often made much worse with these tight muscles. The hamstrings for example play a role in many c...

What Is The Best Spine Position If You've Injured Your Back & Why?  🎙️ Back In Shape Podcast Episode 15:    Lower back pain is a common complaint in all modern societies and one which exacts a large physical, emotional and financial cost on the individual, be that through lost productive days of work or expenditure on treatment. Financially the impact is significant on society a...

🎙️ Back In Shape Podcast Episode 14: Why Do I Keep Getting Lower Back Pain & What Can I Do? Back pain, just like any other joint pain, has a causative injury. However there are some details when it comes to back pain that are often overlooked that lead to back pain seeming to come and go with a degree of frequency that is certainly not appreciated. In today’s article we’ll explore this in a li...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 13: Is Your Back Pain Caused By Weak Glute Muscles? Gluteal musculature plays a pivotal role in your lower back health, as well as the health of your lower limb in general. The gluteal muscles allow your lower limb to effectively transmit forces into the trunk during all manner of movements. These muscles are unfortunately left without cultivation in modern life. We...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 12: Best Food Supplement For Back Pain & Sciatica We can probably all agree that nutrition has a role in how our body functions. When it comes to lower back pain, the injuries responsible for it, and the recovery process nutrition also has a role to play. Establishing what supplement is going to play the biggest role in your lower back pain recovery you might be...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 11: Should You Be Doing The Cat Cow For Back Pain Relief? When it comes to back pain stretches there are a variety of stretches that are touted as helpful for lower back pain. These stretches or exercises are claimed to provide relief for lower back pain but are they really helpful or are they at best, a waste of time, at worst making your back problem worse, or do...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 10: Are Lunges Good For Lower Back Pain When we think about getting back in shape and rebuilding our body to make it more resilient, one of the important principles to adhere to is that our exercises are somewhat applicable to daily life. What is meant by this, is that the exercises are similar to movements that might well be carried out on a daily basis. Now of cou...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 9: How To Fix Chronic Lower Back Pain Chronic back pain is something that we want to avoid especially if this is the first episode of lower back pain. In today’s article we’ll talk about some of the phenomena that occur when a back injury becomes chronic and the importance of avoiding this. Towards the end of the article we’ll also work on covering what is required...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 8: Should You Squat If You Have Back Pain One of the most important early rehab exercises for anyone with lower back pain or sciatica is the squat, which is why it features so early on in the Back In Shape Program. This comes at a time of crisis in the mind of those with lower back pain, a time when the prospects of exercises like a squat are worrying to say the lea...

🎙️Back In Shape Podcast Episode 7:   Piriformis Syndrome And Back Pain   Piriformis Syndrome is a diagnosis that states the hip and leg pain that you’re experiencing is the cause of a tight or dysfunctional Piriformis. Sciatica is also often directly associated with Piriformis Syndrome as symptoms of these two are fundamentally the same. Today we’re going to once and for all give you the...