Back Pain Ruining Your Golf Game?
Posted: Monday, October 11, 2010
by Carlton Hill
Back pain could be ruining your golf game. After 20 years of suffering with arthritis pain in my neck; and 5 years of enduring the pain as I played amateur tennis. I am now virtually pain free. And you can be too. As an expert on joint pain relief I was curious about how joint pain, (back pain) affects other sports. Specifically golfers and back pain. Here are several tips that golfers should know to eliminate and prevent back pain caused by golf. And no, giving up golf isn't one of them.
1. The golf swing is brutal on your back. It is unnatural, and physically abusive to the body. Think about it, you are swinging a 3 foot club at over 100 miles per hour while standing still in a very uncomfortable golf posture. It is physically demanding to rotate your upper body over a stable lower body and it can wreak havoc on your lower back and cause a high level of pain.
2. Back pain in golf is the most common injury among amateur golfers world wide. Many books have been written on the subject and many chiropractors have dramatically improved their bank accounts thanks to golfers' visits multiple times each week.
3. The repetitive nature of the golf swing leads to stress, strain, pain and injury of the back. The movement occurs over a hundred times per round when you combine practice before play, pre-shot swings before every shot, actual swings, and bending over to put the ball on the tee and to get it out of the hole after making your putt.
5 Ways To Treat Back Pain Naturally:
1. Exercise to strengthen the lower back and core muscles. Exercises specific to the core from a rotational standpoint will be the most effective in preparing the body to withstand pressure of the pure rotational movement of the golf swing
2. Core strengthening exercises do not have to be performed in a gym with fancy equipment. You can perform simple and effective exercises with light dumbbells, exercise tubing and light-weight wrist bands. Hold the weights and slowly twist the torso while keeping the lower body stationary.
3. Stretch to increase flexibility and keep out tension. Since the golf swing requires a higher level of flexibility, golf stretching exercises should isolate the core, lower back and even the glutes. Stretches can be dynamic (movement) or static (holding), depending on the time they are done. For example, before golf or practice should be dynamic stretches to prepare the body to perform, and after golf or after a warm shower in the morning should be static stretches isolating the core, lower back and glutes.
4. Golf stretching is only effective if done consistently. Preferably on a daily, or every other day basis. Muscles have memory and can return to an "unstretched" state very quickly if left alone.
5. Take a natural supplement with glucosamine and chondroitin which include the building blocks of cartilage and cushioning between joints. This type of all natural supplement is rated most effective for joint and back pain relief and is regarded as safe with no side effects.
Don't let back pain handicap your golf game. Visit my website today to get your copy of my free report on how you too can be free from joint pain using all natural methods and supplements:
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