Caring For Your Spine

Your spine plays an essential role in helping your body stay upright and move around. It is also where your nerves that enables you to feel sensations, such as temperature, pressure and pain, are housed. A healthy spine will be able to flex and twist easily and smoothly, allowing everyday activities such as walking, sitting, and standing to be done with ease.

People with poor spine health may experience difficulty not only in doing the aforementioned actions, but also in sleeping, as well as headaches, and muscle and joint pain due to the spine’s lack of strength and flexibility. Poor spine health may lead to long-term disabilities if not treated.

Cause of Spine Problems

Spinal problems could be caused by a number of reasons such as poor posture, lack of exercise, injury or disease. Other causes may include age-related degeneration or not using the right furniture – such as using a table that is too low or sleeping on an old mattress that doesn’t provide adequate back support.

Many of these causes can be prevented with regular exercise, good posture, maintaining a healthy weight and swapping out your furniture for more ergonomic ones.

You should also be careful when lifting heavy weights if your legs or core is not strong enough to support it as your back may overexert itself to compensate for the weakness. This may result in back injuries and may contribute to disc degeneration.