healthy body tips

HealthNFitness News: Gardening is a great form of exercise, but it can also leave you with a painful backache.

How to maintain garden without hurting yourself:

• Use correct posture and form.
• Warm up before you garden with a 10-minute walk.
• Make sure all of your movements are smooth and steady.
• Keep your abdominal muscles taut.
• Lift with your legs (never your back).
• Don't twist your back while digging.
• Breathe regularly. Exhale when you lift, and inhale as you lower a heavy load.

HealthNFitness News: Gardening is a great form of exercise, but it can also leave you with a painful backache.

How to maintain garden without hurting yourself:

• Use correct posture and form.
• Warm up before you garden with a 10-minute walk.
• Make sure all of your movements are smooth and steady.
• Keep your abdominal muscles taut.
• Lift with your legs (never your back).
• Don't twist your back while digging.
• Breathe regularly. Exhale when you lift, and inhale as you lower a heavy load.

HealthNFitness News: Gardening is a great form of exercise, but it can also leave you with a painful backache.

How to maintain garden without hurting yourself:

• Use correct posture and form.
• Warm up before you garden with a 10-minute walk.
• Make sure all of your movements are smooth and steady.
• Keep your abdominal muscles taut.
• Lift with your legs (never your back).
• Don't twist your back while digging.
• Breathe regularly. Exhale when you lift, and inhale as you lower a heavy load.

HealthNFitness News: A ligaments sprain of the neck can lead to symptoms including spasms, headache, stiffness and numbness in the arm or hand.

Tips to manage a sprained neck:

• Take an over-the-counter pain reliever.
• Apply an ice pack to the sprain for the first few days after injury, and then switch to a heating pad.
• Gently massage the area.
• Consider ultrasound or neck traction treatments.
• Ask your doctor about whether aerobic and isometric exercises could be helpful.

HealthNFitness News: A ligaments sprain of the neck can lead to symptoms including spasms, headache, stiffness and numbness in the arm or hand.

Tips to manage a sprained neck:

• Take an over-the-counter pain reliever.
• Apply an ice pack to the sprain for the first few days after injury, and then switch to a heating pad.
• Gently massage the area.
• Consider ultrasound or neck traction treatments.
• Ask your doctor about whether aerobic and isometric exercises could be helpful.