One (exercise), they will tell you, is not possible with the other (back pain).
After all, they have just discovered that every single bone and muscle in their bodies is attached to their back bone and moving ANYTHING makes the back pain worse, not better.
Not only that, they will go on to tell you, the exercise is exactly what caused the back pain in the first place.
These back pain sufferers are partially right. The wrong kinds of exercise can only make the pain worse and increase its duration. But the right kinds of exercise can actually decrease the pain and make the pain be of a shorter duration.
Both a decrease in pain and its stopping as soon as possible are both desirable effects that those who suffer with back pain will be eager to learn how to accomplish.
Those who suffer from back pain should never do any exercises that increase the pain. Those kinds of exercise are only adding to a problem that already exists.
The exercises that a person who is suffering from back pain needs to participate in are ones that will strengthen the muscles that have allowed the back to become sore and aching in the first place.
Only a certified physical therapist or a licensed chiropractor can recommend and instruct a back pain patient in the exercises that will help rather than hurt the problem.
Medical doctors have been instructed in exercises that relieve pain, but if it isn’t their specialty, they may not be aware of the latest developments.
Ask your doctor to refer you to either a physical therapist or a licensed chiropractor so that you can learn how the exercises that will help to relieve your back pain sooner rather than later.