National Golf Month

Golfers & Back Pain

Golf is a fantastic way to keep moving and exercise with sport of the summer. Well, in honor of national golf month coming to a close, were going to discuss a bit with golfers and low back pain.

Most Americans usually experience some back pain at some point in their life (fun fact- there is a reduced chance of needing spinal surgery when the first point of contact for back pain is a chiropractor!) weather it be from a muscle strain, filamentous sprain, disc derangement, stenosis or something different. Back pain is arguable the most common injury in golfers. If the pain is severe, please go and visit a provider first to evaluate the symptoms and provide the appreciate care and recommendations based on your specific needs. As posted in an earlier blog, the mobility/stability continuum indicating alternating portions should be mobile vs stable. If there is a lack of mobility in the thoracic spine or the hips (they should be mobile) then the low back may be compensated and become mobile when it needs to be stable. A couple of exercises that can be tried may include cat/cow to keep some mobility in the pelvis while the dead bug exercise will improve core contraction and activation to help with stability through back and fore swing.