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  Reverse Snow Angels If you've read my posts on How to Alleviate Tech Neck and Stretches for Lower Back Pain Relief , then you know how important and impactful it can be to do stretches for back pain relief. Essentially, pain comes from the same imbalance in muscle tension that causes bad posture. If muscles and fascia are too short in some areas of the body, it will cause the opposing muscles to become over-elongated. These over-elongated muscles have to work harder to do the same job because muscles are at their weakest position when they are fully extended. In addition, a bad posture causes leverage against the over-extended muscles.     To allow the posture to come back to a nice, straight, and efficient posture, the short muscles and fascia must be elongated. If these tissues are too short, then no matter how hard one tries to come back into an ideal posture, it won't really be possible. Or, if it is possible, it would require a lot of muscular work to come back into and

Photo by Bench Accounting on Unsplash If you've read my post on Stretches for Lower Back Pain Relief or Stretches to Alleviate Tech Neck , then you've already learned some useful stretches that can help you reduce the severity of those problems or prevent those problems from occurring in the first place. Also, you would have learned that I believe that the most impactful thing anyone can do to get rid of back pain is to change the ergonomics of the activities that they tend to do for extended periods of time. Yes, I am a massage therapist, a Rossiter coach, a health coach, a life coach, a practitioner of neurolinguistic programming, a Qigong instructor, and a level 2 Reiki practitioner. But, I still know that no massages, bodywork, strengthening, or stretching will hold a candle to the power of good ergonomics and body mechanics when it comes to alleviating or preventing your aches and pains.     What does ergonomics mean? If you read the full definition , it's essentia

How Posture Affects Back Pain     Are you a person who has begun to suffer from low back aches? Does it seem that these aches and pains have come from nowhere and no particular activity seems to have caused any injury? Perhaps you've been to a doctor, but they can find no back injury or any other reason that you would be in pain. If you can relate to any of the above scenarios, this blog post may be very helpful for you. The good news is that I'm going to share with you how to relieve lower back pain  with stretches and simple improvements to ergonomics. Those who might benefit from this post may also benefit from reading my post on How To Alleviate Tech Neck .      If you have checked out my post on relieving tech neck, and you agree that it seems like that information would be very helpful for you, then odds are that you have a sedentary job or other activities that involve a lot of time sitting down: driving, computer work, reading. How Sitting Causes Low Back Pain     A ver