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Wellness Tip of the Week: Spare Your Spine, Hip Hinge!

Specht Physical Therapy in Swansea and Providence

The bending patterns in most western cultures are plagued with lower back pain, due to overuse of the spine. But much of the world moves differently, using a joint specifically attuned to hingeing- the hips! This amusing article outlines how we should be bending and working from the hips, not the back.

Article titled Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines, showing a man bending with a hip hinge to dig with a shovel (opens in a new tab)
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