Re: Low Mainitenance human bodies

Dear Bill and all Medit-planters,

It is not just garden designs, garden hardware etc that need to be thought through in terms of their low maintenance application. Our bodies and how we use them as we get older needs some thinking through too. Our backs may ache from poorly designed tools, badly designed layouts and gardens that require awkward postures to maintain and manage them but our backs may also ache just because we have failed over the years to maintain flexibility, or because we have lifted, handled, lugged, dragged, pushed and shoved heavy loads (inc. patients, unruly students, bags of cement and farm animals) without due care. One of the best things all gardeners can do for their backs as they get older is make sure they get some advice about warm up exercises, limbering up, exercises to maintain flexibility and strength and to understand and know and practice not asking too much of our backs, to understand the mechanics of backs and safe lifting techniques. Too many men, and quite a few women, think they are tough and have to show it by bad lifting and working postures.
There should be courses for such stuff at the University of the 3rd Age and in community colleges. If not just ask you Dr. or chiropractor, physiotherapist etc for professional advice.

keep digging - carefully

trevor n
Trevor Nottle
Garden Historian, Garden Writer, Designer, Consultant
WALNUT HILL, 5 Walker Street, Crafers, SA 5152 AUSTRALIA
Tel./ Fax. 61 8 83394210

















































   



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