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Exercises For Back Pain For Seniors And The Elderly

Exercises for back pain for seniors and the elderly include the cat and the camel exercise below.

Try these exercises 3 - 5 times per week for increased strength and endurance during the day.

Even though we use our muscles regularly during the day for bending, rotating and extending, they will show a decrease in flexibility due to biological aging.

For this reason it is important to maintain our mobility in our back with daily exercise and stretches.

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Cat and Camel

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Purpose of this exercise:

• To stretch and extend the lower back and mid back muscles. It is also a great exercise for losening up the pelvic area and learning the pelvic tilt.

How to do it:

Step 1

• Begin by getting on your hands and knees on your bed or the floor only if you can safely get back up.
• Keep your back in a neutral position.

Step 2

• Round your back up and bring your head down to make the cat arching his back.
• Then reverse by allowing your back to relax forming the valley between the camels two humps.
• Return to starting position and repeat 10 times.

Breathing:

• Exhale during the upward movement phase.
• Inhale during the downward movement phase.

Tips:

• Keep breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth.
• Tighten your tummy muscles and place your pelvis in a neutral position to start.
• If your wrists are painful, lower yourself onto your elbows.
• Use gardening pads if kneeling on the floor.

Take it up a notch:

• Keeping elbows straight, lift your back even higher by moving from the shoulders only. Then bring your shoulder blades together when lowering your back.

Try these other back exerxcises

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1. Eccentric Straight Leg Raise

• This exercise works your abdominal and hip flexor muscles which will improve your ability to get out of bed, get out of a chair and maintain your posture and help back muscle pain.

2. Bent Knee Raise

• This back pain help exercise works your abdominal and hip flexor muscles which will improve your ability to get out of bed, rise up from a chair and maintain your standing posture.

3. Curl Ups

• Abdomial back pain symptoms exercises help with posture and balance by strengthening your core muscles. Simple things like getting out of bed or up from a chair can become easier when your
•  abdominals are strong. 

4. Cat and Camel

• To stretch and extend the lower back and mid back muscles. Exercises for back pain and losening up the pelvic area and learning the pelvic tilt.

5 Back Extension

• To stretch and extend the lower back and mid back muscles. It can also help with mid back pain associated with postural strain. This will make it  easier to maintain good posture with sitting and
•  standing.

6. Leg Extensions

• To stretch and extend the lower back and hip pain muscles. It can also help with strengthening the pelvis and leg muscles reducing symptoms.

7. Bridging

• These lower back pain exercises help strengthen the hip extensors, buttock muscles and hamstrings. It also helps strengthen the low back and sacroiliac. This can improve your ability to stand and maintain your balance.

8. Pelvic Tilt

• To stretch the lower back and hip muscles. This is a great treatment for back pain exercise for tired or sore backs after a long day of walking!

9. Sit Backs

• This back strengthening exercise will firm your abdominal muscles.
• It will help your ability to get out of bed or up from a chair. 

10. Arm Raises On Back

• This back muscle exercise improves the range of motion in your upper back and shoulders.
• When correctly stabilizing the lower back, this exercise will  help strengthen your postural muscles including the abdominals.

11. Arm Raises On Knees

• This back pain and exercise movement will improve your upper back and shoulder stability.
• It is also  helpful in reaching to a high shelf, opening the refrigerator door or even combing your hair.

12. Hip Flexion

• This lower back exercise will improve your lower back range of motion and flexibility.
• It will help with activities such as doing the laundry, sweeping up with a dust pan or reaching to a low cupboard.

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