Re: Low Mainitenance human bodies

tnottle@picknowl.com.au wrote:
> 
> 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

Or alternatively, get right into no-dig gardening as I have and expend
your main energy just on spreading mulches. (A mulch a day keeps the
chiropractor away!)

Moira
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, 
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
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