Back Exercise No 2

Back Exercise No 2

This exercise is simple and is good when feeling a bit stiff when doing physical work e.g. gardening in the summer or shovelling snow in winter. If doing physically hard work, take a few minutes out to do this exercise every 20 minutes. By doing this you will find that your back is less tired at the end of your activity.

1. Stand with your feet about shoulder width apart.
2. Slide the palm of your hand down the outside of your thigh as far as comfortable, then return and repeat on the other side.
3. Alternate repeating 5 times each side. Doing it smoothly and rhythmically.

This simple exercise stretches out the spinal ligaments and muscles but not by forward bending. As a consequence it does not put your discs at so much risk.