Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Why lifting weights decreases lower back pain
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Why lifting weights decreases lower back pain
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most people if you progressively load correctly lifting weights is going to reduce their pain
but in studies looking at lower back pain and lifting they show it decreases lower back pain like because one you decrease your sensitivity to pain because you're progressively loading those tissues those tissues are one of the worst things you can do is to not load tissues because then they do get really sensitive to pain