OK, OK, so I lied. I just wanted to get your attention and would really like to do some brainstorming about this. It's probably not for those that have already had surgery.
When I first went to the orthopedic doctor as a child, he said the single best thing I could do was to hang. He said to stand straight and raise your arms up high and install a bar 3" +- above your fingertips. So my dad made me a bar. Whenever I got a little hunched over, I would hang and it would straighten me right up.
I've been pretty hunched over lately and remembered the bar. Got one of those over-the-door bars and started hanging. Can't do a full hang because of the height of the bar (and I'm not that strong now), so I just bend my knees up to get my feet semi off the ground (if that makes sense). I am definitely not as hunched over as I was.
This started me thinking. I did a search on here and couldn't find anything. Do we know of any research about this? does anyone else hang? what do you think about it? (It's probably not something a researcher would spend a lot of time on because I can't see it as being profitable.)
It seems like a logical thing to do. The weight of your body pulling the spine down. It seems that it would be more powerful than some of the other methods. I don't know but would like for us to brainstorm about this.
Just looking for your thoughts. Thanks for any input.
dd
When I first went to the orthopedic doctor as a child, he said the single best thing I could do was to hang. He said to stand straight and raise your arms up high and install a bar 3" +- above your fingertips. So my dad made me a bar. Whenever I got a little hunched over, I would hang and it would straighten me right up.
I've been pretty hunched over lately and remembered the bar. Got one of those over-the-door bars and started hanging. Can't do a full hang because of the height of the bar (and I'm not that strong now), so I just bend my knees up to get my feet semi off the ground (if that makes sense). I am definitely not as hunched over as I was.
This started me thinking. I did a search on here and couldn't find anything. Do we know of any research about this? does anyone else hang? what do you think about it? (It's probably not something a researcher would spend a lot of time on because I can't see it as being profitable.)
It seems like a logical thing to do. The weight of your body pulling the spine down. It seems that it would be more powerful than some of the other methods. I don't know but would like for us to brainstorm about this.
Just looking for your thoughts. Thanks for any input.
dd
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