Pain Control Tips for Avoiding Gardening related injuries
Before you start gardening warm up muscles and joints by performing simple stretching exercises.
When you are kneeling down to do your planting, place both knees on a knee pad or kneeler. You can even use an old cushion or blanket.
Rather than using a large spade to dig use a small spade. This way you will put less strain onto your back, avoiding lower back pain.
Avoid repetitive strain injuries by switching tasks. Digging for long periods of time can cause a repetitive strain injury.
When lifting anything remember to bend your knees and keep your back straight. If using a hover mower, you should push it in front of you and face the direction in which you are cutting the grass, rather than swinging it from side to side.
When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
What to do if you suffer a Gardening related injury.
If you have suffered a gardening related injury Pain Control have the products to help.
If you have suffered a lower back injury Pain Control recommend a Lumbar Support
Whilst we recommend a Lyrca Neoprene Adjustable Wrist Support for a repetitive strain injury
About Pain Control
The Pain Control site is owned and managed by a group of highly qualified and experienced professionals in the fields of physiotheraphy, podiatry, orthotics and chiropractic.
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman—a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
Their aim is to provide a comprehensive and easily understood guide for people of all ages and activity levels who seek relief from their pain our range of braces, supports and equipment can provide real benefits without the side effects often associated with other methods of treatment.
Their products can help with a wide variety of commonly occurring conditions, diseases and injuries which affect so many people during their lifetime. Whether your pain is due to sporting activity, is work related or simply due to the wear and tear we all encounter with age, paincontrol.co.uk can help.
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Pain Control.