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Many people find gardening to be not only relaxing and personally fulfilling, but healing as well. But if back pain is getting in your way of accomplishing your vision for your garden, how healthful is that? Most of us use body mechanics that create pain when we add load or challenge to our physical work. Our minds are not on our bodies - we are thinking about the next thing we have to do to get our garden in shape. To this end, I have created a few illustrated, step-by-step, easy to follow guides for common gardening chores. So dig in - and healthy gardening!

Back Safe Gardening Guides

• Common Garden Chores and Your Back
• Weeding Without Back Strain
• Avoid Straining Your Back by Reducing the Need to Weed
• Dig Out Your Soil
• Empty a Wheelbarrow
• Get a Mower Going
• Safe Lifting Technique
• How not to lift
• Gardening and Back Pain - Index of Step-by-Step Guides
• Getting Ready for Yard Work, by About.com's Exercise, Paige Waehner