Gardening Tips for Preventing Back Pain
Article by Daniel Neiheisel
I started my first garden when i was in my early 20s and my young body had youthful stamina and flexibility. 20 years later i’m reaching the time officially known as middle-aged and like clockwork I become aware of the limits of my aging body. I don’t know about you but i would like to garden for as long as i live. I want to be able to weed, plant and harvest until my days are done, but these activities include bending over for long periods, and lifting or carrying weighted objects, which have already caused great strain and chronic problems to my back. That makes these gardening tips, some of my most important.The gardening tips that are solutions to this problem cover a wide range. First you can attend to your body directly by preceding gardening with a series of warm up stretches. I practice yoga each morning before foraging into the soil. Gardening like yoga, can be a very meditative activity so beginning with yoga stretches can add a zen quality to your gardening activities while raising awareness of the health of your body. It is this body awareness that can help us to put a stop to the unnecessary injuries that happen to our backs just because we’re distracted away from what our body needs. Investing in high-quality gardening tools could be the wisest and most basic of gardening tips. If you have the means well designed tools make all the difference. There was a particularly bad year for me when i broke the handle on my pitchfork and rather than replacing it I turned to the soil with a shovel and paid the price for it in back pain. Another bad year of watering much of my beds with a can resulted in a good find, my U Can Watering Can, which has an ergonomically designed handle to make watering natural. I especially love it now with a new baby in the house because I can water with one hand effortlessly while I hold the baby with the other. The marvelous handle is what makes it so ideal for me as even carrying it filled to its 2 gallon capacity is easier to handle than a conventional 1 gallon watering can.Purchasing or building raised garden beds is the final of my gardening tips and another great solution to the problem of gardeners back pain. I have seen garden beds raised to table height. If you already have back troubles these are terrific and for the elderly or the handicapped make the difference between gardening and not gardening. The designs are very simple, and they look very tidy. They also make good use of vertical space, and can be taken indoors, enabling people with little to no yard to garden.There are many solutions to preserving your back, which will keep the chiropractor at bay, and get you “back” in to the garden. I hope you found my gardening tips for reducing and preventing back pain useful so that you can garden all your life.
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About the Author
Today’s gardening tips will keep you from having to quit gardening due to back pain! How can we, as we age, continue to enjoy gardening without doing harm to our backs? This is a problem gardeners face, young and older, new and experienced alike. We need strong backs to keep up with the maintenance considered necessary to produce good gardening results. So no matter what size garden you have, here are my gardening tips for stopping back pain.
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