Back in the late 1990s, “Core Stability” started getting popular. Studies found that people with back injuries and chronic lower back pain had wonky timing in their trunk muscles, basically, their muscle coordination was off. This got researchers thinking -maybe strengthening certain muscles, like the transversus abdominis (TrA), could help fix this and prevent pain and injury. They came up with all these exercises: the "tummy tuck", “trunk bracing” and the “core stability” craze grew.
Read moreBackache, Pain & Yoga
You’ ll find a slew of studies. Just to share one I looked at was a review of 10 studies involving a 967 chronic low back pain patients. The results showed strong evidence that yoga can provide short-term relief in terms of pain, back-specific disability, and overall improvement... More and more studies are raving about the benefits of yoga.
Read moreTen Back Pain Facts
We've all had a niggly low back at some point and like me you began to think the worst.
My thoughts generally go something like this “It'll get so bad, I won't be able to teach yoga. I won't be able to earn a living. I won't be able to buy food. I'll have to cook my own liver to stay alive…”
You get the gist. So before our thoughts get out of hand, I thought it useful to look into back pain. (Though I did get a little lost researching 'why humans love to catastrophise?'* and 'can you eat your own liver?'**)
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