4 exercises that can prevent (and relieve!) pain from computer slouching and more : Life Kit

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What if there was a way to stop chronic pain in your body before it strikes?

That's the concept behind Vinh Pham's new book, Sit Up Straight: Futureproof Your Body Against Chronic Pain with 12 Simple Movements. Pham, a physical therapist with over a decade of experience, shares a set of exercises aimed at helping to prevent bodily pain that lasts for over three months due to injury, exercise, bad posture or other factors — and relieve it, too. Practicing these movements consistently, he says, can extend your range of motion and increase your flexibility.

"There's research to support the decrease in the incidence of chronic pain with the addition of exercise," says Christipher Bise, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences who researches lower back pain and is not affiliated with Pham's book. "Exercises that are going to balance the body front to back [such as mobility training] are really going to be the ones that help over time."

Life Kit asked Pham, the Los Angeles-based founder of the physical therapy studio Myodetox, to walk us through four movements that target areas prone to chronic pain, such as the neck, shoulders, spine and lower back.