Gardeners Back Care – Raised Beds
Raised Flower Beds Preventing Back Stress!
Another way you can enjoy pain free gardening is to use raised flower beds and raised vegetable beds. The raised beds should be roughly 4 feet wide and have a height of about 2-3 feet. This will allow easy reaching across the raised bed without stretching and give a height that should eliminate the need to bend.
Also: ensuring high maintenance flower and vegetable beds at ground level are wide enough for you to comfortably reach the middle without over stretching is a sure way to help prevent back strain and pain.
WRITTEN BY BBC GOLD MEDAL AWARD WINNING GARDENER CHRIS MYERS-FROM HIS SERIES “BACK CARE TIPS FOR GARDENERS”
Chris’s Story: For over 10 years I suffered with back pain. Generally striking after a particularly hard day’s work the pain could be unbearable with my resorting to taking strong anti-inflammatory relief and regular visits to the osteopath. Since I discovered VertiBaX and tried the Heavy Task Core Lumbar Active Support VB121 my working life has totally changed - for the better.
A hard day’s graft used to be followed by a day of pain. Now I can do as much hard work as before but every day, and without the pain striking. The great thing about the VertiBaX: Heavy Task Core Lumbar Active Support is that it cost me less than a trip to the osteopath, someone I am more than glad to see the BACK of !!
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Disclaimer: Professional independent medical advice should be taken before acting on any of the information given in this article.
