Standing Upright & Other Easy Posture Exercises
Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back
Back pain is one of the most common ailments in today’s industrialized society. You are most certainly not alone if you are a sufferer. Back pain has in fact reached staggering proportions.
Every year one in seven individuals suffer with back pain lasting at least two weeks and at least one episode of lower back pain shall be experienced in 80% of the general populace over a lifetime.
Over 60% of all adolescents have experienced neck or back pain by the tender age of 15 and back pain is the second most common reason for visits to the physician. It’s no surprise that back pain is the foremost reason for work-related injury and disability.
There are those who will tell you that we experience back pain because we stand upright and having evolved from apes, were not designed to do so. If you believe this then why does everybody not experience back pain? Surely more than 5 million years of evolution has allowed us to adapt to our new posture.
It is not because we stand upright that we experience back pain but more the way we stand upright that causes the discomfort.
To learn more about Esther Gokhale’s refreshing techniques which could potentially allow tens of thousands of back pain sufferers to avoid major back surgery every year you can check out the manual here. It’s an excellent read for those who want to empower themselves and get back in the driving seat with their back pain problems.