By Leslee Jaquette Back pain is a big pain in the you-know-what! While I try to be careful with lifting, I’ve “spronged” my back with as little as trying to hold back a sneeze and reaching down into a cupboard. Otherwise, I often exacerbate low back pain when I have overtrained and my old bod […]
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7 Tips for a Safe and Successful Strength-Training Program
Those Harvard Medical School students, who contribute to the Health Beat blog, must have read my mind. Not only do I occasionally suffer from low-back pain, but it seems like everyone I know does, too! And it’s just not “mature” individuals who feel the pain. My 30-year-old neighbor to the north has chronic back pain […]