Synonyms in the broadest sense
Back gymnastics, neck school, spine stabilization, physiotherapy, physiotherapy, back training, back muscle trainingBack school are special courses that deal with the prevention of back pain. A wide range of exercises, back-friendly behavior in everyday life and therapeutic options – even for back pain that has already occurred – are presented. In the back school quite simple strengthening exercises for the back muscles are taught and repeated more often, so that even after going through a back school, regular exercises can still be practiced at home.
Instructions on how to lift, carry and sit correctly as well as strengthening and balancing exercises will help you do this. The back school gives an impulse and information on how to protect and strengthen your back and how to prevent the increasing age-related wear and tear of the spine. Special back exercises have been a current topic since the 19th century.
With the increasing mobilization of society through railroads and cars in the course of industrialization, which was accompanied by one-sided and usually difficult movements for the individual person, the general suffering of the back also increased. Special back exercises were already developed by a French surgeon in the first half of the 19th century. The first back school was founded in Sweden in the early 70s.
This was followed by back schools in the USA and from the mid-1980s onwards, back schools were also known in Germany. Today, back schools are part of corporate health care and are offered in fitness studios, adult education centers or rehabilitation clinics. In some cases, health insurance companies have special contracts with fitness studios, which on the one hand guarantee a high quality standard of back schools and on the other hand offer attractive prices.
So ask directly at the health insurance company and inform yourself about the respective conditions. The management of the Rükenschule is usually taken over by a physiotherapist, occupational therapist or sports teacher, who had to acquire an additional qualification and the license to teach. In the back school the leader will pay attention to the individual requirements of each participant.
He will first ask whether a back problem or even therapeutic interventions have already been performed on the back. Thus he has an individual picture of each participant of the back school. In addition to teaching the contents of the back school, his task is to prevent his participants from being overtaxed and from training too enthusiastically.
For this reason, recognized back schools are quite manageable with a number of participants of 10 to a maximum of 20 persons. The back school instructor will not only give a frontal teaching but will also give the participant direct corrective tips or help with exercises during the course. For individual questions on site a qualified back school teacher should always be open.
