{"id":5580,"date":"2013-04-11T07:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2014-10-29T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:22:55","slug":"is-your-fat-wallet-causing-big-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/is-your-fat-wallet-causing-big-back-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Fat Wallet Causing Big Back Pain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5584\" title=\"wallet pants back pain\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wallet-pants-back-pain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back pain, these two words alone strike fear into the hearts of millions.\u00a0 And yet for some men, it may be as preventable as throwing away a grocery store receipt.\u00a0 I lost my wallet a couple of months ago and had to replace all of the contents in it.\u00a0 My new wallet is about half the size of the old one and I\u2019ve noticed I don\u2019t wake up as stiff in the morning as I used to.\u00a0 It got me thinking if maybe there was some correlation, so I did my research and here\u2019s what I found.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a fan of Seinfeld you&#8217;ll remember when George Costanza, played by Jason Alexander, got back pain from too big a wallet.\u00a0 This happens because your wallet sits in your back pocket and on the sciatic nerve (a nerve that runs down your leg).\u00a0 This in turn causes pain in the back and tingling in the lower extremities.\u00a0 <strong>Large wallets have also been linked with causing sciatica,<\/strong> which is a syndrome that causes pain in the lower extremities.<\/p>\n<p>Many doctors and physiotherapists say that the best way to alleviate this pain is to make your wallet smaller by taking out unneeded cards, old receipts and carrying less cash.\u00a0 By doing so, you\u2019ll put less pressure on the sciatic nerve and the nerves of your back.\u00a0 I experienced this relief first hand. While I would never recommend losing your wallet, because that\u2019s a pain the \u201csomething else\u201d &#8230; \u00a0I would recommend downsizing.\u00a0 After all, it&#8217;s better to shrink the wallet now than to shrink it later with medical bills.<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I1X8_xftmA4?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"640\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I1X8_xftmA4?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Fitzness\/218599521492381\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5739\" title=\"facebook_button21\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/facebook_button21-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many doctors and physiotherapists say that the best way to alleviate this pain is to make your wallet smaller by taking out unneeded cards, old receipts and carrying less cash.  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