It's Summer, Time to Get Out and Walk! How to Tackle Low Back and Buttock Pain To Help Get Yourself Moving

It’s Summer.

For most of the nation that means: get outdoors!

While the weather is nice, try to challenge yourself outdoors. Push yourself, sign up to an event designed to push both your physical and mental self.

Be it a 5K walk, a 10K, half marathon, full marathon, cycling centuries, boot camps or even one of those extreme events such as zombie survival runs or the aptly named “Tough Mudder.”

Those events are wonderful and popular and the pride one feels afterwards is exhilarating.

And even better when you are walking or running or biking for a cause like helping to fight heart disease or breast cancer.

But are you concerned about the training and physical strain?

We understand. That's why it's important to follow a training schedule, get proper sleep, eat healthy, and our favorite, stretch. 

Make sure you warm up those muscles before hitting the trails. Simple side steps, hip rotations, toe touches, lunges, and of course, stretch your piriformis muscle. This muscle, located deep to the glutes, works extra hard helping you walk, run, and cycle. 

Why is it important?

It can become tight and if not properly stretched, can compress the sciatic nerve creating low back, buttocks, and radiating leg pain. The key is to target the piriformis with proper leverage and control to gently stretch and relax the muscle. The Miracle Stretch® Piri-Stretcher® patented home exercise tool helps provide you that leverage and control for a safe, effective stretch.

The idea of exercise can be daunting for those of us who suffer in silence with daily chronic pain like Sciatica or Piriformis Syndrome. But little by little, with stretching and movement, exercise can help pain subside. We know it can be an everyday challenge to simply get out of bed. 

Set goals. Take small steps. 

The idea of a 5K walk may seem far off, but our fans who have felt like they couldn't possibly do it, have sent letters relaying how they are walking without pain - starting at home and moving beyond to finish 39-mile breast cancer walks and beyond. We are so proud and happy for them. 

It's not about getting a free race T-shirt or medal. And it's not about admiration of others. It is about living. Going on. Moving. Feeling great.

Not once a summer, but every single day.

Turning the Everyday Question "What's New?" into One you Can't Wait to Answer!

“What’s new…?”

A question asked millions of times a day. Sometimes with genuine interest, and sometimes rhetorical, but always an open-ended starting point.

“What’s new?”

What if the answer is a rhetorical, “nothing?”

Many people may feel that scenario is the worst, and it does lend itself toward self-pity.  “What do I say?” “Should I prep for the question?” “I don’t want to look like a loser.”

According to succeedsocially.com, it is very common: It can be hard to think of what to say right away. That's one main reason these phrases often lead to little awkward moments. People will often initially respond to, "How are you?" with something like , "I'm good... I'm good... yeah, things are okay..." to buy themselves time to come up with a better response. I think everyone feels a little caught off guard and on the spot to come up with a fascinating answer sometimes. Nothing unusual at all about taking a few seconds to gather your thoughts.

Don't worry if you don't always have a great answer to the literal "How are you?" question. Often we're really not up to much or not a lot is new. The point is to get someone talking, and as long as that happens then everything is fine. Plus if someone really does want to know what's new in your life, saying "Not much" and then changing the topic technically did answer the question.

It may seem like an end-of-the-world-man-does-my-life-stink scenario, but it is not.

Not by a long shot.

Imagine your friends or loved ones who are suffering from chronic pain. Imagine how they look at that simple question.

“What’s new…?”

(“Nothing…nothing but pain at least.”)

Everyday chronic pain sufferers dread the question for many reasons. Mostly because it asks if there is any change, any hope in the fight against their chronic pain.

Dreading the question becomes hating the question because it reflects the daily struggle.

“What’s new…?”

(“Nothing, nothing is new…I can’t do anything new—I can’t even do the things I USED to do…so how could anything be new except an increase in my pain.”)

Perhaps you are already aware and quite sensitive to the question because you, a loved one, or friend already suffers from chronic pain. Perhaps you have cringed at asking the question and then catching yourself wishing it was a courtroom setting, and you could voluntarily withdraw the question.

Because you know it hurts.

This is where Miracle Stretch® comes in. The mission is to end the suffering of those who suffer in chronic pain, to end a life of missing out and to return people to where they were before the crippling pain.

…to literally be what is new.

The Piri-Stretcher® by Miracle Stretch® is an answer to “what’s new?” And a positive one. We get updates on what’s new by the thousands. People are finding that incorporating a simple stretch with the aid of a professional stretching tool has been the answer, the difference, in their search for success to fight chronic low back, buttocks, and leg pain.

The Piri-Stretcher® allows them to get back in the game and become the person who looks forward to the question of “hey-what’s new…?”

They can’t wait to tell you.

Their chronic pain has ended, and they feel they have re-joined life. The best part? People can’t wait to help others by sharing what they have experienced.

Go ahead, ask them…

“What’s new…?”