Another quick reminder of proper posture. It is best if you can bend your knees and keep your back straight when you lift. This is not always possible, soeven if you need to bend at the hips to lift, here is a tip for decreasing strain on your back.
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Bending incorrectly does indeed carry consequences. In fact, one of the emerging epidemics in spinal health is “text neck.” The human head weighs about
12 pounds, which doesn’t sound like much, until you bend forward and increase the weight on your neck.
In a recent study, Dr. Ken Hansraj, chief of…
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Postural problems are very common today. Thanks to the sedentary lifestyles that are now considered “normal” for most people, we spend much of our time with our bodies fixed in unhealthy positions. For example, eight hours of sitting at a desk puts the low back discs and muscles in…
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The final reason most people have not developed an optimal amount of back strength is simple – it takes hard work to build up muscle.
While our ancestors lived a lifestyle that naturally required regular physical activity during their days—bending, lifting, and moving—most of us today experience a more sedentary…
Kamshad Raiszadeh, M.D.
Dr. Raiszadeh's completed medical school at UC San Francisco, orthopedic surgery residency at UC Davis and his Pediatric and Adult Spine Fellowship at the Hospital for Joint Diseases/NYU in New York City. He has 20 years of experience with the broad range of spine surgery including minimally invasive surgery, complex spinal disorders such as scoliosis and kyphosis, and cervical spine disorders. During this 20 years he has noticed a dramatic increase in patients turning to surgery for treatment of neck and low back pain, but many of them not getting their desired long-term result. He therefore became increasingly interested in improvement and standardization of non-operative treatment. By developing the best aspects of non-operative treatment in an atmosphere of empowerment to maximize the body’s own healing capacity, he noticed that many fewer patients required surgery, and the ones who underwent surgery had much better long term results.