The KISS principle of lower back pain is a helpful guiding principle for which exercises to start with when treating lower back problems. In theory, if you simply use your knowledge of Good vs. Bad Changes in Symptoms (found here) and follow the Traffic Light Analogy (described here) then you should be able to determine READ MORE
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Back Self Treatment: The Stages of Improving Posture: Love. Hate. Love.
Improving posture is a love, hate, love relationship. Consider this story: Pete breaks his arm and goes to his orthopedic medical doctor who puts his arm back in place. Once it’s in place the doctor sends Pete back without any type of brace or any instructions on modifying his day to day life. He says READ MORE
Back Self Treatment: Exploring Good Posture
Sit up straight! Stop slouching! We’ve all heard it. We’ve all ignored it. Most people recognize that good posture is important. Most people also want good posture. They want it so badly that they are constantly looking for ideas to make good posture easier. The problem? Good posture is HARD! How hard it is? It’s READ MORE
Self Treatment Series: Tracking Pain by Writing Down Baseline Symptoms
The best way to track improvement (or lack of improvement and worsening) with self treatment or clinician based treatment is to accurately record your baseline symptoms. Why bother with baseline symptoms? Baseline symptoms essentially tell us what we are starting with. Later you will revisit your baseline symptoms to determine whether there is any change. READ MORE
Back Self Treatment: Find the Best Exercises With the Traffic Light Analogy
Everyone has an exercise, a trick, and new device to help treat low back problems. “Do a plank while twisting like an owl in the downward Pidgeon position with your eyes squinted to make sciatica go away!” “Never bend forward.” “Never bend backwards.” With contradicting recommendations online, how do you determine which low back exercise READ MORE
Back Self Treatment: Good vs. Bad Changes in Symptoms
Some people say “It hurts so it must be working!” and others say “It hurts so it must be bad for me!” The most important first step in the self treatment of your low back is understanding how to interpret what you feel as a good or bad result from an exercise or activity. There’s READ MORE
Back Self Assessment and Treatment Series: What is it and who should do it?
The Baldi Movement Group believes that everyone deserves an evaluation regardless of background and social class. That’s why we’re dedicated to creating simple to follow guides for self assessment and treatment for the most common orthopedic and spine problems people face. Since low back pain is the #1 orthopedic problem experienced by the general population READ MORE