11 Ways to Strengthen your Spine

The spine is the backbone of the healthy, optimally functioning body, so keeping it strong is essential to good health.

Contrary to common belief, back exercises are not the only way to keep your spine healthy. Like all muscles in the bodywork in complementary systems, a strong core is mainly responsible for a safe back. Additionally, lifestyle changes and habits have a huge impact on the spine.

Try these simple, chiropractor-recommended ways to strengthen your spine

Make exercise your lifestyle. Exercise can be more in motion than the daily trip to the gym. Thread habits into your daily routine that work strengthening and stretching the hamstrings, abdominal and back muscles.

Think about what you eat. Everything you put in your body affects your body. Whenever possible, limit foods to those found naturally in nature and avoid anything processed. Some foods are healthy for the spine, specifically those with high calcium and vitamin content.

Evaluate how you sit. Along the spine, we have sensitive spinal nerves that can be damaged if we don’t maintain a good posture that supports our natural curves. You don’t need to sit identically to your peers, but you do need to sit with a disciplined posture that compliments your spinal curves.

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Meditate. At first, meditating might not feel great. Overtime and in small increments of improvement, it will become easier to sit, to focus on calm, positive imagery, and eventually to sit and talk erectly naturally, and without pain.Exercise in the water. Water eliminates the force of gravity, making it easier to exercise without the stress of extra force on the body.Take walks. Walking strengthens the core, which directly works to keep the spine erect with little effort, allowing all fluids to travel as necessary. Walking is a low impact exercise.