Thank you for joining us for today’s livestream where we talked about how to get around daily with back pain - how you can reduce back pain during daily tasks.

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Hopefully this is going to be helpful for you to be able to manage your back pain better, as well as how to manage things when you’re going through your recovery so that you don’t relapse.  These daily tasks can be anything from long drives, gardening or putting your children in the car. We’re going to go through 3 principles to bear in mind: Recognising The Strain On Your Back Recognise that there are activities that put a great deal of strain on your back, just when weight bearing when standing up. Doing the gardening or lifting your shopping bags is much more strenuous on your back. Try To Do The Activity Safely You can do this through maintaining your natural lordosis. We demonstrate this in the video just to be clear but we’re making sure to not round the spine in the lower back. Engage your core during the activity as this helps to protect your back.   Use your knees and hips to get down on the ground if it’s gardening you’re looking to do, or to unload shopping from bags.   Square yourself to the task as much as possible, don’t twist when you’re bending down as this can cause a relapse, turn around fully to do those things.   Know your limits in terms of time or strain. If you are in the early stages of recovery, don’t try and take all the shopping bags from the car at once. Go back a couple of times and make the extra trips. If you want to do the gardening and you know you want to do it during the day, don’t do it all in one go but just split it throughout the day.  You all have access to the free Phase 1 area of our Back In Shape. If you’ve had a busy day and you’ve done more than you probably should have done - do the entire Phase 1 protocol as this will help ease that strain on your back. Adding in extra towel and ice combinations over the next few hours if you have done something very strenuous, that should help. 

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