Are you a gardener? Do you find yourself spending hours on end bending over caring for your plants?
Gardening season always excites us to get outside, get down on our hands and knees, and dig in! Common aches and pains from over exhuberent gardening:
- Low back ache
- Arm and hand pain
- Shoulder or neck stiffness
- Knee pain
While you’re out rescuing the earth, REMEMBER:
- Stretch before, during, and after your work, especially if you anticipate working for more than 1 hour.
- Work with awareness of your body position. Instead of constantly twisting, turn your body to face your work.
- Breathe. While doing small, repetetive tasks such as weeding, we tend to take small, shallow breaths or barely breathe at all. While this seems to help us balance and focus, it limits our movement and ease. Please, Breathe.
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