4 Types of Lifestyle-Induced Spinal Pain And How to Relieve It

Today, people spend too much time without physical activities. Office jobs, crazy traffic that requires you to sit in your car for hours, an unhealthy diet, and laying on the couch as a leisure activity create multiple health risks. Spinal pain is the most common discomfort you may feel while leading such a life.

There are several types of lifestyle-related spinal pains that may occur due to a lack of exercise and staying in uncomfortable positions for long periods of time during the day. If the pain is consistent and affects your quality of life, it is a reason to visit a spine care center is a reason. However, you can relieve it by correcting your daily routine and adding special; exercises for the spine into it.

There are four types of spinal pain related to lack of physical activity. If the pain isn't constant and occurs only occasionally, you may find ways to rearrange your seat or working space to avoid the positions in which it occurs.

• Lower back pain radiates into your legs. It may become more severe as you bend forward or sit. With such pain even tying your shoelaces can become quite a struggle. However, as you bend back, you may feel relief. Such type of pain may be induced by disease of the intervertebral disc.

• This type of pain is very similar to the one described above, but it worsens if you bend back and walk or stand for a long time. The problem may be caused by a disease of the intervertebral joint. These two types of pain are the most common; they make up around 90% of all lifestyle-induced spinal pain cases.

• The third type of pain you may feel more in your leg rather than in your spine. As you bend your body or sit, it may become worse. In its acute period, every movement can be painful. This pain can lead to numbness, muscular weakness, and even difficult urination; make an appointment with your doctor if these symptoms occur. This condition may be caused by hernia of the disc that affects your nerves.

• This type of pain also affects your legs. They may hurt; you may feel weakness, numbness, and heaviness in your legs. The discomfort often occurs when you walk. Sitting or bent forward position may relieve the pain. It often occurs in elderly people and can be caused by the narrowing of the spinal canal.

How to Relieve the Pain

There is a special type of exercise for relieving the pain of each type.

• 1st type - Lie on your stomach, and if this position doesn’t increase the pain, lift your elbows. Stay in this position for 2-3 minutes, then lean on your palms and straighten your upper body. Repeat 10-15 times.

• 2nd type - Sit, bend forward, and stay like this for 2-3 minutes. Then sit on your feet and stretch your arms forward. Lie on your spine, bend your knees, and pull them up to your chest. Next, put your hands behind your head and lift your upper body. Repeat 12-15 times.

• 3rd type - Lie on your spine, and put your legs on a chair. You can also lie on your stomach, putting a pillow under your pelvis. You need to sleep with your knees bent and add extra pillows between them and under your lower back at night.

•  4th type - Exercises for the 2nd type plus the exercise for bending and unbending your lower back in the so-called “cat” position, standing on your hands and knees on the floor.