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Research Notes on Back Pain and Weight Training
Weight training may ease common back pain. A study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, showed people who trained with weights had a sixty percent improvement in pain and function.1 Some of the weight training exercises to ease back pain include leg press, leg curl, bench press, shoulder press, and abdominal crunch.2 When weight training use less weight but do more repetitions.
Fast Facts:
- Eighty percent of Americans suffer from lower back pain at least once in their lives.3
- Americans spend more time at the doctor’s office for back pain than for any other medical condition except high blood pressure and diabetes.4
- Aerobic training such as jogging, walking, or using an elliptical machine only shows a twelve percent improvement in back pain.5
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Research Notes References
- ↑ About.com: Sports Medicine Blog: Weight Training Best for Easing Back Pain
- ↑ About.com: Top Weight Lifting Exercise to Ease Back Pain
- ↑ ScienceDaily: Exercise More, Not Less, To Ease Aching Back, Study Suggests
- ↑ WebMD: Back Pain Health Center: Relieve Back Pain with Core Strength Training
- ↑ Suite101: Use Strength Training to Beat Back Pain
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- Contributor: Jamie Sutch
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 14, 2009
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- Contributor: Jamie Sutch
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Weight Training and Back Pain, Back Pain with Weight Training, Weight Training with Back Pain
- Last update: Sep. 25, 2009
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