Upper Back Pain Relief Exercises

Upper back pain can be decreased every day, with pain relief exercises done three times a week.

If you have severe neck, shoulder, or back pain, a physical therapist or a chiropractor will help correct your posture, stretch you some, and help you learn to reverse your habits of chronically straining your neck.

 It's up to you to follow up with upper back pain relief exercises!

If your work station, for example is poorly set up, your your neck muscles are tense all day, unnecessarily. You may need a lumbar support on your chair, and you may need to lower or raise your computer monitor.

Your muscles don't work in isolation. Poor use of the neck muscles will involve

• the shoulder

• upper back

• low back

• chest

• arm muscles 

You may feel the pain in your neck first. Then you will most likely feel upper back pain, low back pain and shoulder pain too, at some later time.

A little about myofascia "wrap".

Fascia is a wrap, connecting all of your soft tissues. It would look like plastic wrap, enveloping your muscles and other soft tissues.

There is one section that goes from head to toe. When your myofascial wrap turns to Shrink Wrap - you'll feel it! Your fascia can wrinkle, shrink, get tense and less flexible.

Yet you can learn to change that, so easily. 

The following short video clip shows pain relief exercises for the upper body:

Developing chronic neck and back pain can be prevented, by changing your lifestyle a little bit, and including a routine from the best stretching exercises I've found yet.

Classical Stretch The Complete Season 8 -Age Defying Series

Your overall flexibility will increase with neck tension release, and you can buy this neck and back pain relief series right now!

Hip Flexibility Exercises - How They Work

Hip flexibility is important. Hip flexibility exercises will help balance the tension in the hips, and prevent strength training from resulting in spasms or soreness. Muscle relaxation increases muscle tone, as tense muscles cannot function with the same strength as relaxed, stretched muscles.

A stretching routine that includes the whole body is the best, starting with the neck muscles and working down. For chronic muscle pain in any area, a full body approach to stretching exercises will serve you best.

To become more flexible at the front of the hip you will stretch:
***the quadriceps muscles at the front of the thighs
***the psoas muscle that runs from the top of the front of the thigh over the hip bone and up into the front of your spine.

To become more flexible at the side and back of the hips you will stretch:
***the ballet turnout muscles. Your lateral rotator muscles are your prime turnout muscles, specifically: Piriformis;Obturator Internus;Obturator Externus;Quadratus Femoris; Gemellus Superior; Gemellus Inferior. These muscles lie underneath your gluts, or "butt muscles' which can retain much tension from weakness and overuse.

If you are not particularly athletic, the sooner you learn about hip stretches the better. As you age, you can preserve hip strength and balance, preventing falls and hip fractures.

Get your DVD that includes the details of hip flexibility exercises, all the important body stretches, as well as myofascial release instruction, Flexibility Workout For Athletes.

An Easy Stretching Exercise To Increase Your Ballet Turnout

This isn't one of those ballet stretches that you need a studio a ballet barre, or dance wear for. This one is easy, because you do it sitting in a chair.

You can do it right now!

You will feel your turnout muscles, and feel an easy but deep stretch. Releasing tension will help you increase your ballet turnout.

Stretching exercises are necessary to relieve tension in your muscles, thereby improving muscle tone.

So, sitting on a chair, with both feet flat on the floor, lift up one foot and cross it over the other thigh. Just like a normal sitting position. Next, clasp your hands under your bent knee, and push down into your hands with that thigh.

The feeling is subtle, and a little different. This is resistance stretching.

Different angles: you can turn into the bent knee further, and you will get a slightly different stretch in your turnout muscles.

Turning away from the knee, the stretch will feel a little different.

Do each side. If you have a tighter side, you can always repeat that side again, to get an extra stretch.

Get your own DVD of stretching exercises, beautifully demonstrated so you can learn them all. Here's an interview with the lady who will see when you buy your DVD:

You can hip flexibility exercises - buy it here.

Winter Workouts And Back Pain Relief - Stretches Help!

Winter workouts are important. Workouts learned and done correctly will help back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and more. Following up with stretching exercises is important too.

Workouts warm up your soft tissues that respond to exertion and movement by becoming more elastic. This means your connective tissues, myofascia, not just your muscles. Collagen becomes softer, just like hard butter that warms up, so your movements are eased.

Here is a short demonstration of stretching/fitness exercises by Miranda Esmonde White, author of the best seller  "Aging Backwards Miranda Esmonde White". This one is for upper body pain.

Many people get worse aches and pains in cold and/or damp weather, so keeping up the winter time workouts is crucial. Seasonally, our hormones accommodate the fall and winter cycles, and most people feel like hibernating. We may not have sunshine in the evenings to get us motivated for exercising. If we do, it may be too cold to go out and do it, if that is what you prefer.

And sometimes it is too hot in the summer to exercise outdoors!

Buy a DVD with stretching exercises for back pain relief.

 You'll be fit for all seasons!

Dynamic Upper Body Stretches For Breast Cancer Survivors

 Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Post Surgery

My friend and classmate from The National Ballet School of Canada, Miranda Esmonde White is the creator this DVD of dynamic upper body stretches.

I applaud her work in this area for breast cancer rehabilitation.

(Miranda's work may now be best known for her best seller "Aging Backwards Miranda Esmonde White".)

Miranda is a breast cancer survivor - and she is proof that these breast cancer post surgery exercises work!