back pain

Thanks for keeping us in step

What if your left leg is an inch shorter than your right?

Flat stilts

stilt anyway
Balanicing sides a big factor as your pelvis can move and cause nerve issues by moving as little as 1mm.

Balancing

I wish it was as easy as flat shoes, I spend 40 quid a pop quite regularly with an osteopath, not even tax deductible

Go on Dragon's Den with this revolutionary cure and see if you get an offer bud.

It's a thing you don't appreciate until it happens to you the back is involved in everything,it's about 4 1/2 years since my last bad episode but I've been affected ever since it controls my life to a certain degree.

I had to stop playing squash because of back pain, I had locked facet bones in my lower spine and although the osteopath eased the acute agony after many sessions it was never to be the same and although I did persevere I can't play again. I loved my squash but that ship has sadly sailed for me Just getting older and wear and tear and not the recovery rate that I once had.

and all that was needed was a pair of slippers

It's funny how you don't notice how many muscles are used going around doing daily activities. Like when I pulled my groin, and kept getting pain twinges doing nothing .. ."groiny", but the groin was obviously being activated.

Had a terrible time with a slipped disc a few years ago,had to give up squash too and looked 20 years older. Eventually needed micro surgery to trim the disc protrusion but the feedback was always that we spend 2/3 of our lives in shoes and 1/3 in bed and should buy top quality stuff. Blindingly obvious but 50 years too late for me,fine now and whizzing around the squash courts slippy !

all you have to do is wear flat shoes.

Do you mean as opposed to six inch heels?

The only true flat footwear is "flip-flops" I think, but aren't most shoes (for men) almost flat, in today's fashion?
I don't wear shoes in the house, so isn't that equal to flat shoes?

Brassneck has clearly never suffered a damaged disc or he would not post such flippant nonsense.

Spot on Saddo seen such Reduce men to wrecks had Friend was  as fit as a Fiddle could just about Raise a Pint in the bar ,another Guy laid out on a Wooden floor  for months could hardly move .

flat shoes don't cure the bad back but they ease the pain when you walk.something to do with the shape of the bones,and the pressure a person puts on their back when they walk but according to bad back experts most say proper footwear can ease pain in a high percentage of complaints.

so i am sure there is such a thing as bad back shoes on the market."if not ,there is a big opening for someone in the shoe business"

Sounds like bollocks? What is true however is a people can concentrate on their back when they should pay more attention to their front. If you've good abdominal strength/core and good posture you can take a lot of strain off your back.

And vice versa JC The old rule NEVER train abs on leg day.