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Snellville GA Chiropractor Explains How to Avoid Back Injuries


When it comes to avoiding back injuries, your fate is largely in your own hands. It’s true that an unexpected fall or auto accident may cause an injury that’s beyond your control, but a large percentage of back injuries are caused by your own actions, which means you can take measures to prevent them or stop them from getting worse. Here are a few valuable back injury tips from a Snellville GA chiropractor.

Pay Attention to Your Lifting Technique

How you lift boxes, laundry baskets, children’s toys, a pair of shoes, or just about anything else, has a bearing on the health of your back. When you lift correctly your spine is in the proper alignment and there is no added stress placed on your back. This means you should bend your knees and keep your back as straight as possible when you pick anything up off the floor.

If you have a lot of lifting to do try to place items on a table or chair so there isn’t as much bending required picking it up. Your back is not designed to work as a crane so anytime you use it that way you are putting stress on your back that doesn’t need to be there. Take a balanced stance, lift with your legs and move your feet if you need to change direction while holding the object.

Sensible Body Management

Performing activities with your back health in mind is a great strategy to help you avoid back injuries. That means stretching before any type of physical activity, taking it slow if you have a lot of repetitive lifting to do, and taking breaks to rest and stretch during the activity.

Getting yourself into good physical condition also protects your back and helps to avoid injuries. This includes losing weight in your midsection and strengthening core muscles, to make lifting and general movement less stressful on your back. Most Snellville GA chiropractors will also tell you that sleeping on a firm mattress is another way you can nurture your back and prevent injuries.

Don’t Let Injuries Linger

If you end up with a back injury despite your efforts to avoid it, you should seek treatment with a Snellville GA chiropractor as soon as you can. Spinal misalignment, bulging discs, herniated discs, and other injuries often only get worse if you let them linger. Prompt treatment will restore blood flow to the area, relieve any compressed nerves and get you back to normal in the shortest time possible.

At Stinny Chiropractic our team is here to help answer your questions.  Please feel free to contact us today.

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