{"id":4988,"date":"2016-11-30T14:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2016-11-30T14:30:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:30:20","slug":"how-to-fix-your-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/?p=4988","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix Your Back Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2016\/11\/30\/back-pain-and-back-strength\/\">this outstanding article at PJ Media<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>There are times when The Conventional Wisdom and The Reality of the Situation are at odds. Our recent presidential election provides a poignant example, as does the idea that running makes you skinny, that little kids always tell the truth, and that we have to pass another law so you&#8217;ll stop doing things we don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one: Your back hurts, so you have to rest it, stretch it, go to the chiropractor for 30 visits, and then get your \u201ccore\u201d stronger with situps and various odd-looking movements performed on a balance ball, and if that doesn&#8217;t work, surgery will. The reality is that your back hurts because you are a bipedal, upright human over the age of 30, you can&#8217;t alter this fact, and the best way to make it stop hurting is to make it stronger with squats and deadlifts.<\/p>\n<p>Deadlifts and barbell squats for a low back in pain sounds like the stupidest idea that has ever appeared on PJ Media, I know. It flies in the face of The Conventional Wisdom. The fact is that it works nearly 100% of the time if you do it correctly, and that 90% of the time a stronger back not only stops hurting but also returns you to full unencumbered activity in less than a month.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2016\/11\/30\/back-pain-and-back-strength\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"iLikeThis-4988\" class=\"iLikeThis\"><span class=\"counter\">0 <a onclick=\"likeThis(4988);\">I did this!<\/a><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this outstanding article at PJ Media: There are times when The Conventional Wisdom and The Reality of the Situation are at odds. Our recent presidential election provides a poignant example, as does the idea that running makes you skinny, that little kids always tell the truth, and that we have to pass another law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}