A Powerful All Round Exercise for Back Pain, and Other Joints.

This is a great exercise if you're suffering from knee, low back, shoulder and/or neck pain, but only if done correctly.

This illustrated article by Colin Hoobler shows you how. It is a resistance exercise, this is much different than lifting weights. Lifting weights is boring, carries a high injury risk and requires little skill because the movement speed is inconsistent and uncontrolled.

Resistance training, however, is powerful medicine to combat disease and injury due to focus on specific muscles and total control throughout a specific range of motion. Further, sessions also take up to 75 percent less time to complete compared to lifting weights.

Don’t worry about the mention of weights. It is recommended that you use light dumbbells, but to see if this is something you can use you can always start with bottles of water, cans of beans, whatever you have to hand really.

Then if you wish to use it regularly proper dumbbells can be bought cheaply on auction sites and such. I got some at a local charity shop for £3. It's certainly helped my own back pain.

Anyway check it out here and maybe give it a go.