Lift With Your Legs? No, Your Hips! | Chiropractor Plymouth, MI
Channel: REACH Rehab + Chiropractic Performance Center
Date: 17/08/2018

➡️Lift With Your Legs? No, Your Hips! ⬅️ #60
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🔸WHAT IS THIS?🔸⠀
A savvy little trick to help you learn how to lift with your hips, and not your legs or back where many back and knee injuries tend to occur!⠀
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🔸WHEN SHOULD I USE IT?🔸⠀
Every. Single. Time. You lift anything off the ground. Especially, if it weighs more than 10 lbs.⠀
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🔸WHY SHOULD I CARE?🔸⠀
Back pain is one of the most common complaints people show up with at a Doctor's office. And our health/medical system's lack of ability to treat and prevent back pain effectively has led to the current opioid epidemic. Band-aid treatments which cover up symptoms don't work because they're not addressing cause.⠀
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The vast majority of people will experience back pain at some point in their life, and the greatest risk for injury is a previous injury. So, if you're one of the many that have or is currently suffering from back pain, the chances of it returning at some point is exponential -- it's a matter of "when," not "if."⠀
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Don't be the person who "throws their back out" (where did it go? 🤔) from something as nominal as picking as picking up a pen off the ground. Bending forward is not inherently bad -- it's the accumulation of the bending, sitting, and forward postural behaviors that lead to, "the straw that broke the camels back."⠀
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Without getting all high school physics on you, using this strategy -- the hip hinge -- greatly reduces the forces on the structure of the spine. By using our all our muscles in conjunction to stabilize and control in a mechanically sound position, we can lift more without compromising our boney structures!

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