What do you do to prevent or ease back pain?

What do I do?
Stretch every morning, every night, anytime I feel the need. Back excercises every day. Ibuprofen or another otc pain reliever only when needed.
Chronic... says it all.

 

I think the first problem your going to have is the whole sitting thing. If you are having back problems from just going to school for 8 to 10 hours a day goodluck with getting into a career which involves constant sitting!!!

 

There are some great stretches that you can find on any physical therapy site.
It is also to do proper lifting at all times, and also keep your weight under control. If sitting long periods of time bother you, there might just have to be lots of breaks in your driving future.

 

lupe if you do a google search for chronic back pain exercises you'll find a wealth of information.

 

So true and stretching is a great tool for helping back pain,when you don't strectch injurys get worse.
If you are haveing back problems like someone else said look at some of the back stretching programs on google.

 

Make sure you don't sit on your wallet all the time too! Guys forget about that and the wallet can change how you are sitting and will put your back out of alignment. Sit up straight imagine a pole in your spine a string pulling your head up~we all slouch and is so bad. Strteching is good but you really need to strengthen the abdominals as these muscles are really what supports your back.

 

I change the seat adjustments if I start to feel any kind of back pain,....Sometimes a simple change seems to help,.......

 

Try cold for 20 minutes then heat for 20 minutes. I have one of those bean bags you throw into the microwave and it works perfect.