It's that time of year when many of us are enjoying the great outdoors and working in our yards and gardens. Gardening offers a relaxing reprieve from the stresses of life and can be cathartic. While it's a healthy activity with its own rewards, the physical demands you're putting your body through may be more than you realized!
Whether you're planting a window box full of flowers and ferns, a row of tomato plants in your garden, or colorful perennials to embellish your landscape, it's easier than you think to over-exert muscles that you may not have used in a while.
While you're gardening this weekend, keep these facts in mind:
- Digging, pruning, and weeding can cause elbow pain.
- Repetitive and prolonged forward bending along with lifting while gardening can cause back pain.
- Bending, squatting, and kneeling while gardening often causes knee pain.
- Repetitive, especially overhead, pruning can lead to aching shoulder pain.
To help prevent aches, pains, sore muscles and even injuries associated with gardening before they start, check out these gardening tips! And be sure to drink plenty of water while you're enjoying the wonderful weather this weekend.
