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Your body has lots and lots of muscles.  Yes, even when you consider cardio to be running to and from the bathroom before the commercials are over.  You get back pain because your back muscles aren’t being worked enough.

I know that seems counter-intuitive.  What muscle wouldn’t like a nice long rest in front of a Twilight ZoneTM marathon?  With nachos?

Believe it or not, most of them.  Granted, you overwork anything, and it’s going to hurt.  The same applies when you start exercising something that hasn’t been put through a workout, well, ever.  But, by the same token, the stronger your muscles are, the more they can withstand anything, including sitting all day at a desk or all night in front of a cathode ray or plasma, You get back pain when your back muscles get strained or overworked.  Strain can come from bending wrong, lifting with your back rather than your knees or any number of other things, but the weaker your back muscles are, the more prone they are to injury.  In fact, if the rest of you body is strong, it will help support your back as well.

There are ways to combat this.  The first, especially if you’re already having mild to moderate back pain is not (no matter how much you want to) keep sitting still.  You need to move.  If you start moving, even for short periods, your back will start to feel better.

This is not to say run a marathon while you have shooting pains in your lower back or up and down your vertebrae.  Just move a little.  Walk around the living room, the house, the yard — movement will prevent the muscles stiffening, which will make them hurt even more the next time you move.

Next, you will want to start some sort of exercise program.  Again, you have muscles, but they get all weak and flabby with inactivity and stop being able to support you.  Even mild exercise will make them stronger and better able to do what they’re attached to your bones to do.

Finally, it can’t hurt to see a chiropractor.  Actually, you can kill several birds with this one stone. 

Going to see someone to help you with your back will force you to move at least a little.  Then, it will reduce or eliminate your back pain, which will make you able and should make you willing, to move even more.  Finally, a chiropractor can provide you with advice on how to avoid a repeat of this back pain.

Depending on what hurts, where and for how long, there will be a range of treatments.  There will also be different exercises.  The lower back does not have the same set of primary support muscles as the middle or upper.  Different sets of movement will alleviate any residual pain and different exercises are required to strengthen the specific muscles. 

The other reason to have a professional help you in this process is that if you don’t exercise, or haven’t for a while, you are more likely to hurt yourself if you randomly start out at a level you aren’t ready for.  Getting rid of your back pain, only to hurt everything else isn’t really the way to go.

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