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Here are just a few tips and ideas for low back pain rehab and prevention exercises. If you are prone to LBP then I recommend including these as part of your regular workout program.

Little spine gremlins are stabbing you! What do you do?

So, you’ve gotten the ball rolling and have tried your best to follow my advice, but dangnabit, you’re just not seeing the results you want. Or perhaps you feel like you’re doing something all wrong. Don’t be embarrassed about it! Most beginners, by virtue of being beginners, have trouble with one thing or another. I’ve screwed up in just about every way there is.

One of the most common problems for female trainers, particularly younger female trainers, is a loosely named constellation of symptoms known as patellofemoral pain syndrome or PF. It’s a term that refers somewhat nonspecifically to pain experienced in the knee around the area where the patella contacts the end of the femur. Here are some suggestions for self-rehab of this type of knee pain.

Sedentary living and working, excess bodyfat, especially concentrated around the midsection (which exerts a downward and forward pull on the low back), and a lack of regular physical activity.. a lot of us spend a lot of our jobs wearing an ass groove into a desk chair or car seat. It’s a recipe for DJS, or Desk Jockey Syndrome. The #1 symptom is low back pain.

A handy guide to bodily ickiness. Post-squat puking, egg farts, pooplets… it’s all here.

I’ve always loved the above quaint Quebecois notation for disaster, the onomatopoeic yet distinctively Gallic words that make catastrophes fun to discuss. To me, it’s become an all-purpose expression for any kind of unpleasant event involving personal injury, and a way to make light of an otherwise nasty occurrence.