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Tai Chi for Back Pain - DVD

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This video is easy to follow and really does relieve back pain. For those with limited mobility, it even details how to do the exercises sitting down. After hip surgery and the loss of part of my leg, I was happy to find this. I built up the strength in my leg and eased the pain in my back.

I am 29 yrs old and I have recurring back pain. I bought this hoping to find a method of exercise that would be safe for my back. Well, it's safe alright, but not so sure it's "exercise" for me. The setting of the video appears to be shot in a gym, bland, not appealing. And the class behind the instructor is full of about 6 elderly people and maybe 2 middle-aged people. I found it both hysterically funny and depressing that I was basically doing exercises with a nursing home! The quality of the exercises were very slow-moving, several done while sitting in a chair, and because of the distraction of all the old people standing in front of me, I found it distracting and could not relax. In summary, if you are older, this would be perfect for you (I actually want to give it to my grandmother), but if you are younger like me, I don't recommend it. The instructor was very helpful though, it's a shame that the rest of the video was so distracting to me, and that it wasn't a bit more challenging. By the way, I believe a lot of the work he was doing in the beginning was more Qi Gong rather than Tai Chi.