It’s easy to hurt your back or neck during holiday shopping trips, especially after long days spent at the mall carrying a heavy purse or your bags of purchased items. Fight back pain during the holidays by taking several precautions to ensure that your holiday shopping trips are as painless as possible.
Shopping at the mall can be great for your health. You are walking, burning calories, and stretching your legs. When a person weighing approximately 150 pounds walks through a store at 2 mph, they will burn around 200 calories per hour. The number of calories burned increases depending on the person’s speed, so speed up, if possible.
Simply stretching and bending for merchandise is helping you to burn calories, but it can be hard on your back, despite its benefits. However, you can fight back pain by limiting the amount of time spent at the mall. Taking shorter trips is better for your body and helps you to avoid back and muscle pain. Frequent breaks are also advised, where you can sit down and relax for a while. Use this time to snack on an apple, granola, or nuts and seeds for extra shopping fuel.
It is especially important to avoid the lifting of heavy bags during your shopping trip. Shoppers should avoid concentrated weight on one section of the back. Instead, divide the contents and bags evenly in both hands, or place all of them in a shopping cart. If a cart isn’t an option, burn even more calories by walking out to your car to drop your bags off, and then go back inside to continue shopping.
If you do happen to suffer a back or neck injury during your holiday shopping, or maybe you’re just tired of feeling beat up after a long day at the mall, please contact Premier Health Chiropractors. We can help to treat your aches and pains in a natural, non-invasive way.
Aside from chiropractic care and chiropractic adjustments, our chiropractors at Premier Health can help you to manage your painful symptoms through other natural techniques as well. Through acupuncture, corrective exercises, massage therapy, therapeutic exercises, ice-heat therapy, muscle stimulation, nutritional counseling, sports chiropractic or Pilates, our chiropractors can help to find you the perfect method for your body and your family.
The cold weather may keep you indoors more often, but it’s important to continue on with your regular fitness plan. Your body needs to stay strong and healthy throughout the year, so find ways to keep your strength up. Perhaps you could join a gym, purchase gym equipment to use at home, learn yoga, or simply research ways to exercise indoors.
Contact Premier Health Chiropractors today to schedule your first chiropractic appointment, and have a safe holiday shopping season!