Back Pain: Does stretching exercise or yoga help?

lifeafter41 said:

Dear nirvarq, actually upon reading your post, I actually went down to the east coast to rent s bicycle for 3 hours. Ride to changi airport and back, had makan at the east coast lagoon hawker center. Felt good, though still a little painful but seems to work, not sure if it is psychological, but I will continue to do it for the next couple of weeks to see if it gets better. Thanks for the great suggestion.

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Don't think 1 round will help so fast lar. Could be the effect of endorphins

Yoga helps to stretch and decompress the back. Try something like Hatha yoga, where it focuses on foundation. Yoga can be adopted by all ages because you do as much as you can, not someone else's standards.

Depending on nature your back problem, most are segment of bones compressing on the nerves.

One way to alleviate it is to strengthen the back muscles.

Swimming is one.

Yoga vs weight training; yoga train different type of muscles, forgot the name, but I remember its for those that involves the minor or minute movements.

Swimming helps, from one of my senior friend's testament.

lifeafter41 said:

Lately been getting back pain and ache. Sometimes can't even sleep as the pain is very persistent.
Have not gone to the doctor as my thoughts is they will only give pain killers and those cream to apply on.

Have read that doing stretching excercise helps to reduce the pain. Will doing yoga help too?. Will a person be too old for yoga exercise?

Forumers here got such problems? Any advice here would be appreciated.

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Cerebral said:

Don't think 1 round will help so fast lar. Could be the effect of endorphins

Yoga helps to stretch and decompress the back. Try something like Hatha yoga, where it focuses on foundation. Yoga can be adopted by all ages because you do as much as you can, not someone else's standards.

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Hahahaha. While not sure about the endorphins, it does help to minimise, though the pain is still there, albeit to a lesser degree.

Planning to go for a swim today, hopefully it does get better,

Thereafter need to plan for a regiment of exercise, that encompasses both cycling and swimming, maybe with a little bit of Yoga, if time permits and take it from there.

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You can also try doing continuous squats early in the morning. Try to reach 500 at one go in two weeks of gradual repetitions.:o

Equalisation said:

You can also try doing continuous squats early in the morning. Try to reach 500 at one go in two weeks of gradual repetitions.:o

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I recall reading earlier that squats are bad for the knees......not sure what are the type of squats you are referring to?

He is referring to nude squats. :o

lifeafter41 said:

I recall reading earlier that squats are bad for the knees......not sure what are the type of squats you are referring to?

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jw5 said:

He is referring to nude squats. :o

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lifeafter41 said:

Hahahaha. While not sure about the endorphins, it does help to minimise, though the pain is still there, albeit to a lesser degree.

Planning to go for a swim today, hopefully it does get better,

Thereafter need to plan for a regiment of exercise, that encompasses both cycling and swimming, maybe with a little bit of Yoga, if time permits and take it from there.

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Weather was good today and went for a swim. About an hour swim. Initially can feel the strain when started swimming, it's been that many months since I went for a dip. But after about about 20 minutes, it felt better. Leisurely type with freestyle. Now the pain has lessen considerably.

Will continue with this regime to strengthen the back muscle. Cycle, swimming and brisk walk/ jog.
Next target, to lose the stomach fats. Hahahaha. No need six pack though. Too old to impress Liao. Hahahaha ha.

lifeafter41 said:

Weather was good today and went for a swim. About an hour swim. Initially can feel the strain when started swimming, it's been that many months since I went for a dip. But after about about 20 minutes, it felt better. Leisurely type with freestyle. Now the pain has lessen considerably.

Will continue with this regime to strengthen the back muscle. Cycle, swimming and brisk walk/ jog.
Next target, to lose the stomach fats. Hahahaha. No need six pack though. Too old to impress Liao. Hahahaha ha.

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Nice to know that it helps After lose stomach fats you will pay attention to hair liao

hokkien said:

Nice to know that it helps After lose stomach fats you will pay attention to hair liao

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Thanks hokkien. For me, hair no issue. Still has a good amount of it. Apart from the slight thinning, in terms of the follicles, no M pattern or 地中海 pattern. The barber even remarked, if don't cut hair for month, it looks like a big bush. Frankly I am glad to have this problem, as compare with my peers.

Anyway, next target, reduce stomach fats, Does doing crunching helps, tried it earlier on, but it tends to hurt the back....