Swimming Technique With Back Pain
How to adjust strokes, breathing, turns, volume, and pool access based on individual response.
Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly place different demands on the neck, trunk, hips, knees, and shoulders. No stroke is universally best or forbidden for back pain. Unilateral breathing is not automatically harmful, and bilateral breathing is not required.
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