{"id":4454,"date":"2016-01-14T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2016-01-28T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:27:37","slug":"how-to-end-lower-back-pain-for-web-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2016\/how-to-end-lower-back-pain-for-web-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to end lower back pain &#8211; for web developers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coders-lower-back-pain.png\" alt=\"coders-lower-back-pain\" width=\"25%\" height=\"25%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coders-lower-back-pain.png 248w, https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coders-lower-back-pain-150x300.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Coders can get lower back pain because:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>They sit all day.<\/li>\n<li>They don&#8217;t exercise.<\/li>\n<li>They don&#8217;t stretch.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>How to end lower back pain:<\/p>\n<p>First, do the opposite of what is listed above: don&#8217;t sit all day, take breaks, walk around, and do some hamstring stretches. Here&#8217;s the list of what to do to end lower back pain:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Stand up and do light hamstring stretches many times a day. The tightening of the hamstrings puts pressure on the lower back. So it&#8217;s important that you keep the hams stretched.<\/li>\n<li>If you are generally in good shape and not overweight, you will have less pain overall. Get in shape.<\/li>\n<li>Strangely, I find drinking lots of water helps. Sometimes lower back pain can come from toxin build up. Water helps flush it. This though can take a month before you start feeling the effects.<\/li>\n<li>Stretching the calf muscles can help as well, since they can also be pulling on the hamstrings, which in turn pull on the wimpy lower back muscles. It&#8217;s all a chain of painful events.<\/li>\n<li>Short term relief can come with heat applied to the lower back. There are belts that can do that.<\/li>\n<li>Support belts: yes, you can buy lower back support belts at the drugstore. But you should be concentrating on healthy habits rather than belts and heat.<\/li>\n<li>Sit up straight &#8230; keep the spine straight.<\/li>\n<li>Get a good chair.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are other things you can do, things like inversion tables and getting a handheld massager. But I find that regular daily stretching and being in reasonable shape, are the best long term solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Hope that helps,<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<br \/>\nKillersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coders-lower-back-pain.png\" alt=\"coders-lower-back-pain\" width=\"150\" height=\"300\" style=\"float: right; margin: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coders-lower-back-pain.png 248w, https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/coders-lower-back-pain-150x300.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Coders can get lower back pain because:<\/p>\n<p>    They sit all day.<br \/>\n    They don&#8217;t exercise.<br \/>\n    They don&#8217;t stretch.<\/p>\n<p>How to end lower back pain:<\/p>\n<p>First, do the opposite of what is listed above: don&#8217;t sit all day, take breaks, walk around, and do some hamstring stretches. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list of what to do to end lower back pain:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}