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Back Pain Exercises For Effective Back Pain Relief

When I talk about tailoring a back pain exercise program to my clients specific needs, I have in mind the specific condition - provided that one can be identified - that is the root cause of your chronic back pain.

Many, if not most, back pain problems elude specific diagnoses agreed on by different kinds of practitioners. Some conditions, however, are easily recognized. And according to the results of a recent US survey, specific back pain exercises that take these back problems into account offer the best chance of improvement.

Whether or not you can name your condition, you may still be able to categorize your back problem according to the nature of your pain, the type of situation that may aggravate your pain, and the area of your back that hurts most.

Please don't feel at a disadvantage if you can't rattle off a bona fide medical term such as 'herniated disc' or 'scoliosis' that neatly pigeonholes your backache. Hardly anyone knows such things for certain. More than half the above mentioned US survey respondents had received two or more different diagnoses from two or more practitioners. Most of these discrepancies represented major differences of opinion - not just variations in terminology. So don't pit too much emphasis on the type of back pain you have been diagnosed with - as it could be wrong anyway.

The good news is that even if you never find out exactly what's wrong with your back, you can still get well. After all, you do know your own symptoms, and that knowledge will help you 'categorize' your own pain, so long as serious medical conditions have been ruled out as the cause of your chronic back pain.

Following is a list of what we have found to be the seven most common categories of back pain or causes of back pain (for obvious reasons, some of the names sound more specific than others):

neck pain

osteoarthritis

sciatica

scoliosis

spondylolisthesis

You may be able to place yourself in one of the above categories, or you may feel that you belong in two or more of them. Indeed, if you have a herniated disc, you may well have sciatica as a result.

Low back and neck pain are frequent companions. And osteoarthritis may superimpose itself on one or more existing back problems.

According to the US survey results, for example, cycling turns out to be an excellent workout for people with scoliosis.

Michelle Spencer

The right back pain exercises can have a profound effect on your health and well being, and will make a considerable impact on helping to relieve back pain. But not every type of exercise will be suitable for your type of back pain. Find out which lower back pain exercises work best and which you must definitely avoid at topbackpainexercises.com

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