Fixing that pain in your back Community: Health tips from Cody Scharf Cody Scharf, back pain Iowa Prep Sports facebook twitter google plus newsletter hooplanow Most Popular Iowa leaving $53 million for Amtrak service sitting on the track Hawkeye fan goes 36 years, 422 games without missing football game BIG Rewind: Officiating woes, Michigan Stakement Friendly spirits walk among the guests at southeast Iowas Mason House Inn Week 9 in Big Ten: 1. MSU, 2. Wisconsin, 3. Illinois Gazette Sports Blogs Find a job October 26, 2014 | 3:44 pm Editor’s note: Cody Scharf is the owner of Thrive Spine and Sport, a chiropractic and soft tissue clinic in Cedar Rapids focusing on sport and overuse injuries. Scharf is a graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic and certified through Integrative Diagnosis for diagnosis and treatment of soft tissue injuries. By Cody Scharf, community contributor Four out of five people will experience low back pain at some point in their life. That’s an astonishing number. For many, the low back pain will leave almost as fast as it arrived, but 50 percent of low back pain sufferers will have another episode within the next 12 months. What if there was a way to tell what your chances are to suffer from low back pain or experience another episode? With these 4 tests you can. Test 1: Straight leg raiser. Lying on your back, with assistance from a partner, or a stretch strap attached to the end of one foot, lock the leg into place and gently lift the leg as far back as you can. Your leg should easily reach perpendicular to the floor. Anything less than perpendicular to the floor is a positive test. Pain or “stretching” in the back of the leg is not normal. buff.ly/1ww9dzF
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