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How Excess Weight Affects Your Body

soreback — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:17:30 +0000

WEIGHT AND THE BACK Your back is probably the one area of the body that works the hardest when you’re overweight, along with your heart, lungs, and joints. Your back is working all the time to keep you upright and balanced and to support your upper body no matter what you’re doing. Whe... read more

Being Overweight Causes Back Pain

soreback — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:14:10 +0000

BODY WEIGHT WEIGHS ON BACK People often have a hard time understanding why body weight causes so many various health problems. After all, if you’re six inches taller than the average person you’re probably not suffering very much, so why should sixty extra pounds be an issue? The truth... read more

Stress and Back Problems

soreback — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:10:33 +0000

PREVENTING STRESS Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just take a pill that makes us impervious to stress and anxiety, or flip some type of switch that shuts off all the problems and stresses of the world? Yeah, right. That would be nice but until that time occurs we need to do whatever we can to ... read more

It May Not Be Your Back

soreback — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:36:56 +0000

Go back over the section that outlined the many muscles of the back and take another look at that. Notice how the many muscles of the back are connected to the muscles of the neck, shoulders, arms, hips, legs, and so on? Every part of the body is connected in some way to every other part of the bo... read more

6 Common Causes of Back Pain

soreback — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:30:39 +0000

So we’ve looked at the major muscles of the back and have a better understanding of how each of those muscles or muscle groups are involved with movement and even with the functions of the body. But knowing how the back can cause chronic pain with every single movement doesn’t exactly explain how that pain [...]