Bushey-based sports therapist and rehabilitation specialist Jane Collins considers some conservative solutions to address pain and reduced mobility, using clinical Pilates methods
Back with a future!
The most common physical condition that one associates with the onset of later life is back pain. This is probably the single most common reason for people being off work, away from sport and having a reduced quality of life with some eighty percent of the population likely to suffer. Whilst hereditary causes are most likely to present in the mid-40s, back pain can strike at any time resulting from modern-day lifestyle and work habits, obesity and poor posture. Most of us spend eight to ten hours sitting, usually in front of a computer, and on our journey to and from work so that the suggestion is that ‘sitting is the new smoking’, leading to suffering in later life.
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