walking for pain relief

Walking Can Relieve Your Back, Hip and Pelvic Pain

Does walking cause back pain? You bet it can! It also causes pain in your hips and pelvis IF you don’t move the way your body was designed to move.

Every week I do another episode of Pain Relief Radio. Today we talked about how to walk to prevent or get rid of back pain. We talked about how our walking patterns become faulty and how that causes pain.

We talked about walking with stiff knees and hips. This kind of stiff walk contributes directly to arthritis in your hips and knees and fragile bones in your pelvis. But bones stay strong and healthy when we use all of our muscles as they were designed to be used.

Meir Schneider wrote a great book, “The Handbook of Self-Healing, Your Personal Program for Better Health and Increased Vitality,” and I quoted lots from Meir and threw in plenty of my own thoughts, too.

Meir is a brilliant bodyworker in San Francisco. I’m so fortunate to have taken classes from him. There are people who understand how bodies work and what we must do if we are to be pain-free. Meir Continue reading “Walking Can Relieve Your Back, Hip and Pelvic Pain”

May 22November 7

The Sitting Disease

It’s a serious problem, and lots and lots of us are affected by it! The Sitting Disease is caused by…too much sitting!

All that sitting causes lots of muscle and body malfunctions and aches and pains and premature aging.

Knots in your back, problems breathing, constipation, carpal tunnel syndrome, osteoporosis, back pain and headaches and MORE are caused by “The Sitting Disease.”

It’s practically an epidemic! But there is a simple, natural cure.

Walk.

Can’t get much more simple than that, right?

When you walk correctly, you use almost all of the muscles in your whole body! Pretty cool.

My friend, Rosalie, had the sitting disease. At first, she could only walk around her own back yard and then, eventually, around the block. And then she ended up race walking and had a ton of health benefits!

All from walking, even though she didn’t want to, and from gradually ‘stepping up’ her walking distance as her ability increased. 🙂

April 16November 7

Hip Pain? Try Nordic Walking to Relieve Pain in Your Hips

If your hips hurt, you might wish to consider walking a different way.

Nordic Walking uses “walking sticks” (poles) and can help people with hip pain more than using a cane. A cane supports you on only one side, but walking with a pole in each hand gives you support on both sides.

Using these walking poles helps propel you forward.

They also cause you to swing your arms in a good, neutral position. When you swing your arms correctly as you walk (next to your body rather than in front of your body, and with your thumbs pointed upward as when you shake hands) you use all of your Continue reading “Hip Pain? Try Nordic Walking to Relieve Pain in Your Hips”