Back To Work After COVID - I Now Have Back Pain

Back To Work After Covid - I Now Have Back Pain

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If you are looking for a back pain exercise program to fix your back from home click here to sign up: to Michael about your back pain, book an online you for joining us for today’s livestream where we talked about returning to work after coronavirus. We’re at that point in the UK where more and more people are choosing to return back to work in an office or returning back to their place of work. However, so many months of being stuck at home or working from home can have taken its toll on your body, so you may be finding you’re all of a sudden getting back pain when you might not have been during lockdown. You might have dealt with back pain during lockdown and gotten on top of it, but now you’ve gone back to work it has returned.

It was a very common occurrence that all of a sudden searches for resolving back pain took a spike. If you’re a member of our Back In Shape program, you might have found us as a result of this. Our bodies respond to environmental stresses, which would have been different than you would have experienced going into work everyday.

Over the last 4 months, your body will have adapted to what you’ve needed to do everyday. Recognise that you will have adapted to the stress your spine has been under. If you’ve been not doing as many steps or as much exercise as you would normally, then your body will have adapted to that. You might have spent a lot more time sitting over these last few months because you haven’t had to commute to work.

Just like moving into lockdown may have been a challenge for you, moving out may be problematic as well. Drinking more may well be a good solution for you because it encourages you to more regularly get out of your seat and move around. This allows you the benefit of getting a regular bit of movement in. It may be possible for you to have a gradient return back to work to ease yourself back in, this will ease the strain on your back as you transition as it’ll be less severe.

Use the Phase 1 exercises. You’ll know if you’ve watched any of our videos before that we recommend if you have done more than you think your body could handle or you’ve done something different, that incorporating the Phase 1 exercises - especially the towel - will help get on top of any new inflammation. Make sure that you make time for your rehabilitation as you will need it during this stage of transition.

The questions we answered today were:

What are leg raises and are they good for back pain?

Leg raises are essentially where you lay on your back and raise your legs straight up into the air. The reason we don’t advise these is that they round the spine and compress the lumbar spine. It’s not the same as doing a deadbug and puts a lot of strain through the back.

Is there any benefit in the use of an inversion table rather than the towel exercise?

An inversion table will be different to the towel. A towel offers a lordotic stretch, but the inversion table can be good if they’re used properly. Don’t turn yourself completely upside down but using it in a pumping motion, 20 seconds slightly down and 20 seconds up again. We are considering doing a dedicated livestream on this so let us know if you would be interested in this.

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