PostHeaderIcon What causes back pain while gardening?

Are you experiencing constant back pain? Well, if you are then you can attribute it to your hobby of gardening. Gardening involves the strenuous exercise of raking, digging up mud, sweeping and repainting the decking in your garden. All these activities can trigger back ache. Actually all these activities mentioned entails poor postures for a fairly long period of time. And you know that poor posture can lead to stabbing pain in the back.

Moreover, these activities involve transferring the hoe or the rake towards yourself constant twisting and lifting way from yourself which can cause tremendous lumber pain. A lot of people think that stopping lifting heavy objects during gardening serves as a solution to back pain but that is not the truth. The truth is that your body is not designed for unergonomic and repetitive movements that gardening involves. And considering that fact that you have to perform these movements for a fairly long time, suffering from back pain is common.

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