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Top 5 Golf Exercises To Reduce Back Pain
To play golf without back pain, you need to strengthen the muscles that surround the back. Here are the best golf exercises that will keep your back safe so you can play golf without pain. This blog takes you through each exercise and the mechanics that will benefit your back and your game. Hands & Knees Upper Back Rotation Bird Dog Anti-rotation Bridge Side Plank Hands & Knees Upper Back Rotation A lack of mobility in the thoracic spine (upper back) causes over-rotation in the lumbar spine (lower back). This puts too much stress on the lumbar spine, resulting in...
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Don't Let Arthritis Pain Keep You From Playing Golf
There is still hope for playing pain free golf if you have arthritis or degenerative joint pain! You CAN PLAY golf with arthritis pain. Have you been told that you have arthritis, degenerative joint disease (DJD), or degenerative disc disease (DDD)? These terms basically mean the same thing. Doctors commonly use these terms to describe what are mostly natural changes that occur in the joints and spine. The two major categories of arthritis are osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis. By far, the most common type is osteoarthritis, which is typically what we mean when we say “arthritis.” When osteoarthritis is in...
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The Secret to Relieving Lower-Back Pain for Golf
Learn how strengthening your upper back can relieve and prevent nagging lower back pain. The golf swing is the major cause for lower back pain. On the downswing, a golfer exerts up 20x their own body weight in force! Before the start of any rotational movement in the golf swing, a golfer needs to get positioned into their setup stance over the ball. To get into that proper setup position, you need to hinge your waist. This requires flexibility in your hips and flexibility in your hamstrings. Exercises like the Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift (SLRD), work to develop that flexibility. It...
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How to Treat and Prevent Golfer's Elbow
Learn to relieve golf elbow pain and adopt proactive steps to prevent golf-related injury in the future We have all heard of it: the dreaded Golfer’s Elbow. In the medical community golf elbow is known as medial epicondylitis. Whatever you want to call it, it’s a common pain that interferes with your golf game and life. At times, it can even become so severe that it can make gripping the club extremely difficult and swinging a club nearly impossible. What is golf elbow? Golfer's elbow is a condition in which the forearm tendons that attach on the bony bump on...
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What I Learned From A Recent Illness
Exercise plays a key role with your age. Recently, I was stopped in my tracks by an article in the national news with the headline: “Average person feels too OLD to workout at 41”. Surprising? Disturbing? In this survey of 2,000 adults, most pegged 41 years old as the age when one becomes too old to work out regularly. I read this article with fascination. I had just been thinking about this subject, but in an entirely different way. After a recent trip to Australia, I got knocked down by an unusually severe cold-like virus. Though my illness lasted about...
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Why Do I Have Lower Back Pain After Playing Golf?
Here’s a scenario you may find all too familiar: You start a round of golf feeling physically great and excited about the day ahead. Then, a few holes in, it happens. Your lower back starts acting up and it becomes increasingly more difficult to make a swing, place the ball on the tee and pick it up after you’ve made a putt. Fact is, lower back pain is the most common complaint and injury in the game of golf. Of course, there’s been no shortage of attention with the likes of Tiger Woods, Jason Day, Fred Couples and many others...