{"id":1251,"date":"2019-02-21T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T07:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/painpuzzle.co.uk\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2019-02-19T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:17:55","slug":"its-safe-to-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/painpuzzle.co.uk\/2019\/02\/its-safe-to-bend\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s safe to bend."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lifting and bending are not bad for your back. Moving heavy loads in an\nawkward posture may increase your risk of new onset low back pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manual handling guidelines have failed to prevent or reduce low back pain.\nThe Health and Safety Executive recognises this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don\u2019t have back pain don\u2019t even think about posture think about being\nhealthy &#8211; eat well, sleep well, move well, relate well, feel well. Tiredness\nand stress are more significant in many cases of back pain than lifting\ntechnique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifting and bending are not bad for your back. Moving heavy loads in an awkward posture may increase your risk of new onset low back pain. Manual handling guidelines have failed to prevent or reduce low back pain. The Health and Safety Executive recognises this. If you don\u2019t have back pain don\u2019t even think about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[21],"tags":[109,19],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/painpuzzle.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pain-4.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s safe to bend. - Pain Puzzle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/painpuzzle.co.uk\/2019\/02\/its-safe-to-bend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s safe to bend. - Pain Puzzle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lifting and bending are not bad for your back. 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