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Stretching Exercises for your Back

By Laura Inverarity, D.O., About.com

Updated: December 22, 2006

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Stretches for your Back

Day to day activities can often cause tight back muscles. Over time this can result in significant back pain and increase your risk for back injury.

In this article, you will learn three exercises to stretch all of the major muscles of your back in a quick and effective way. Performing these stretches will help prevent back pain and assist in reducing present back aches.

Look below and click the links to review these back stretching exercises.

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