Stretching your lower back daily can save your body

 When it comes to day to day life of everyone, there is always that one thing can annoy the average person. Lower back pain that can be caused from the lower back becoming stiff. By stretching everyday when you wake up and then again before you go to bed can reduce the tension that your back may have against your spine and your lower back muscles that can be important in your life. Too many times have individuals not stretched enough before performing strenuous moves that could harm your back. Not only can that harm your back, but also performing the same movements daily that could put a lot of wear and tear on an individuals lower back. Not only are you harming your back, but you are also compressing those nerves that are in your back as well. because of lower back pain, people will start to feel nerve pain because their back is being consistently pressed upon. The most common cause for back pain is sitting for to long. According to an article that I found, "Why Does My Lower Back Hurt When I Sit and How Can I Relieve the Pain?" by William Morrison, M.D. It states that when sitting too long, it can start to irritate the nerves that are around your lower back and on your glutes. The most common nerve that can be found with sitting is the sciatica nerve that is put into a state of numbness. By making it numb that nerve will come back and shoot pain through the legs and around the area causing the individual a lot of discomfort and sometimes thrashing pain. Not only does that happen when you are sitting but the other nerves that come with the lower back area can be hurt and irritated by consistent weight being put onto it. For example, with police officers there is an extreme amount of number of police officers that have chronic back pain from their duty belts. The duty belts that police officers have to wear can weight from 8 to 14 pounds. This is due to the equipment that they have to carry. With a duty belt, officers are not only carrying their radio, cuffs, gun, pepper spray, taser, knife, safety pack, glove pouch, and numerous of other things, but they also have to carry their weight. According to the article, "Police officers and Back Pain" by Sarah Butler, 62% of police officers experience back pain. The most common explanation for these back pains are constant sitting, constant standing, late nights working where their bodies don't get enough sleep, and their duty belts. With that being said, police officers also have to wear there safety vests, which can be pretty heavy after a long shift.  With all of that being said, stretching your lower back everyday can relieve those joints and help prevent back pain in the future. The article from Sarah Butler states that chiropractics can help with back pain and can prolong the strength of your back. Not only will that help, but if you start this practice everyday and add some sit ups, your back will start to grow in strength and then back pain will be non-existent. By, "Medical News today, There are 10 excercises that anybody can do each day that will help strengthen their backs. The link will be posted below for any of you to see. I can give some first hand experience with what back pain has caused me and how I was able to relieve it. I work at the St. Joseph County Jail as a correctional officer. With that being said, I to have to wear a duty belt that weighs a good bit. I wear this belt for anywhere between 8-16 hours for each shift. This belt puts great strain on my back sometimes. Not only does the belt put strain on my back, but then I may have to fight inmates that do not want to comply with the belt on. I have had some back pain for a while but then I said enough was enough. I started to stretch my back everyday when I got out of bed. I laid down on a flat surface and did these 10 excercises. I started to do sit-ups and strengthened my back every day. This helped improve the pain that I was feeling everyday going into work. These steps can help you relieve any back pain and then get your live back on track and not have to be subject to pain. Not taking care of your back can lead to throwing your back out because it wasn't taken care of properly. Your muscles can strain and not work properly from improper form from slouching and not keeping your back in a proper position. Take the advise that has been given to you and take back control of your back today! 










https://www.healthline.com/health/lower-back-pain-when-sitting#causes

https://www.thejoint.com/georgia/roswell/roswell-04028/191210-police-officers-back-pain#:~:text=There%20are%20many%20reasons%20why,in%20their%20cruisers%20%E2%80%93%20hours%20sometimes.&text=This%20places%20a%20lot%20of,lead%20to%20discomfort%20and%20pain.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323204


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