Making walking less painful

[Darragha 0]

"Sandra" posted on my bandster blog that she'd like me to share the exercise my step-mother taught me to help with my low back pain while walking.

1) Walk heel to toe. Deliberately. I have a tendency to shuffle my feet. Walking heel to toe made a big freakin' difference in the pain in my lower back (sacroiliac)

2) Sit on a bench (she showed me this on a park bench), put your bottom all the way back and roll your shoulders forward with your arms extended and crossed in front of you. My lower back is the first thing to go when I'm walking. After doing this "stretch" a couple of times, the pain WAS GONE. Gone!

My step-mother has done several courses of physiotherapy and has hired personal trainers in the past.

The two steps above helped me walk longer and farther yesterday. And today, I'm down another pound! That's 13lbs lost since August 1st and about 10 more to go before I join the band.

Darragha