Top 3 Exercises For Lower Back Arthritis | El Paso Manual Physical Therapy |
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Are you dealing with back arthritis? Are you having trouble in the morning when you get up? Do you feel really stiff and achy in your back and you just need a good 20 minutes 60 minutes even in some cases, to just free up and move better? Is your back just kill you after you've been sitting for a while? Or do you have trouble bending over to get to your feet?
If you have these issues, or if you've been told by somebody because you took an X-ray or an MRI, that you have arthritis in your lower back, then these tips are going to be helpful. I'm going to cover with you today the top three exercises for back arthritis. Real quick, just a bit about me. My name is Dr. David, I'm a specialist physical therapist at El Paso Manual Physical Therapy, and I've been helping people with back problems for years. Back arthritis is one of the most common things that we see here. Specifically, with back arthritis, the joints have changed a bit inside the back. There is, at every level of the spine in the in the lumbar is the lower back, there are three joints. The disc is one where the disc connects one bone to the next bone. But then you have something called a set joints on the back of the spine. And that's where we're talking about the Arthritis occurs. You may have been told you have a set arthritis. That's the kind of arthritis that that we're talking about here. Just to be a little more specific, there are different kinds of arthritis. There is of course, osteoarthritis, which is the most common one, and that's what I'm looking at addressing here. Psoriatic arthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis are two of the common ones as well. But we are not talking about that, that's a different condition. But the age-related arthritis, that most people talk about, which is osteoarthritis, that's what these exercises are going to help you out with. ========== Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you won't miss any new releases. Find us online at: https://www.epmanualphysicaltherapy.com Tune in to our Podcast https://www.StayHealthyElPaso.com Connect with us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/epmanualpt/ https://www.facebook.com/massageepmanualpt/ |