Orthopedic physicians understand how the body's total alignment can cause pain in various parts of the body and muscle tone and lack of exercise can cause many people to suffer from pains in all areas of their back. There are several exercises for back pain that can be performed at home, but the important this is to perform the exercises based on the level of your physical condition. Beginning any exercise program should be done slowly, and working through beginning exercises for back pain should continue until you feel comfortable enough to move on to the next, more strenuous level.

Beginning slowly can be nothing more that lying on your back and moving your ankles up and down. Recommendations are at least 10 times for each foot. From the same position, other exercises for back pain include slowly bending the knee while leaving the foot flat on the floor. Bend the knee as far as possible and then straighten it back out, ten times on each leg.

Using a wall for support, exercises for back pain can include standing about a foot from the wall, leaning against it, and slowly bending the knees to about a 45-degree angle and then slowly standing back up straight. Again, repeat this 10 times. From this position, you should turn and face the wall, still about a foot away and slowing rise up on the toes, bringing the heels as far off the ground as possible, using a hand on the wall to maintain your balance, if necessary.

Moving On To More Intense Exercises

After a few days of this type of easy exercises for back pain, you may feel ready to move onto to the exercises, recommended by your doctor, to help ease back pain and to prevent it from coming back. Hamstring stretches and lumbar balancing exercises can help strengthen the muscles most often causing the pain, especially die to a lack of exercise.

Lie on your back with your knees bent, then lift one leg and hold it up with you hands. While it is being held, slowly straighten you knee until your leg is as straight as possible. Performing these exercises for back pain with each leg, ten times slowly, will help strengthen the lumbar muscles while extending the hamstring.

Whenever you are performing any exercises for back pain, you should never bounce attempting to get the body to move just a little more. Bouncing put unnecessary stress on the muscles and can result in a muscle or ligament strain.