Video: Holistic Back Pain Exercise: Standing

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Breathing can be a helpful and holistic approach to treating back pain. Learn a back pain relieving exercise from a certified physical therapist in this free holistic video.

Video Transcript

What we are going to do is practice and I will give you a demonstration of how the exercise is done. After you have practiced it for a while, you can do the exercise laying down, you can do it sitting up or you can do it standing. Standing, I am going to show you initially. So you breathe in, out. In, out. If your pain is in your low back, you stretch your low back, suck in like you don't have any breath, you hold it as long as you can and you may feel something in your back. Don't be alarm that may be the disc backing off of the nerve roots or off your spine. So, it won't be as much pressure. An example of the feeling is when you cross your legs or when you lay down and your arm goes to sleep and when you move and it starts waking back up, that may be some of the sensations you have. So with the disc retreating off of the nerve root it wake up as well and not be happy. But over a period of approximately one to two weeks you will feel much better.

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Holistic Back Pain Exercise: Standing

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