Why Movement is your Best Medicine 🤸🏼♀️
If I had a dollar for every time a client has said to me “my back is feeling so much better since I started doing your exercises regularly”, I’d be a very rich woman! 💰💰💰
Now I know that when you’re in pain, it can feel instinctive to stop moving - to rest, protect, and wait for things to get better
BUT…
here’s the truth: movement is often the best thing you can do to ease pain and help your body heal..
Here’s why:
🧴 It keeps your joints lubricated and less stiff…
💪🏽 It prevents muscles from weakening, which can make pain worse…
🩸 It boosts circulation, delivering nutrients that support healing…
🧘🏼♀️ It reduces stress and lifts your mood (your body’s natural pain relief!)…
🤸🏼♀️ It protects your long-term mobility, balance, and independence!
The key isn’t doing “more” or pushing through - it’s doing what you can, safely and consistently. Even small, gentle movements send powerful signals to your brain:
🧠 you are safe, you are strong, you can move.
When it comes to chronic pain, the pain signals over time can become so wired into your nervous system that the signals keep getting sent, even after the tissues have healed and when there is no longer any damage or harm being done to them.
This is particularly the time when it is important to reinforce good movement patterns and create stability, strength and mobility around the affected areas. To keep pain away in the long term! ✨
So instead of waiting for pain to disappear before you move… consider movement as part of the solution. Each breath, hip hinge, bridge or squat you do is an investment in a stronger, freer version of yourself. 💫
And if you are suffering from back pain and don’t know what to do, I’d highly recommend starting with your breath.
You can download my FREE Diaphragmatic Breathing Guide that can guide you to work on your breath. This will help improve the function of your core muscles to support your back better.
And if you don’t know where to start with getting stronger or more mobile, check out my Strength and Mobility Guides…
