1. SE5:EP6 Retrain Back Pain: How to get relief from your menopausal back pain with ease. Clarissa Kristjansson 33:20

Research has associated the lower estrogen levels that follow Menopause with increased lower back pain in women compared to men of a similar age.

This week I am honoured to have Dinneen Viggiano as my guest. Dinneen helps active people with low back pain develop holistic think, eat, move skills they need to retrain their back pain with ease

A true “teachers’ teacher” with 23 years of experience, Dinneen is the creator of Retrain Back Pain®. She is also a Certified Nutrition Counselor, a NeuroKinetic Therapist and a Backfit Pro.

In our conversation, Dinneen shares her own story of debilitating back pain, her feeling of failure as a pro and faced with very little support from her clinicians she set about developing Retrain Back Pain®

Tune in to hear about:

  1. How did you get into the work that you do?
  2. What’s unique about Retrain Back Pain?
  3. What do you wish people knew about back pain?
  4. What mistakes can people avoid so they can get back to their active lifestyles as soon as possible?
  5. Does posture matter?
  6. What’s one thing most back pain programs don’t address that they should be addressed with patients?
  7. I hear that yoga is good for back pain, is that right?
  8. Is back pain a result of a weak core?
  9. What are some things that people can do right now to help their backs?

and more……

To find out more about Dinneen and her work go to her website https://retrainbackpain.com/ and follow her on social https://www.instagram.com/retrainbackpain/

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Clarissa Kristjansson Independant Podcaster

At 62 Clarissa Kristjansson knows that menopause can be positive, transformational and an upgrade in our creativity. Clarissa is an internationally recognized menopause educator, third-age women's health coach, and certified mindfulness and medical qi gong practitioner.

A neuroscientist and former corporate high-flyer it was her own perimenopause experience that set her on a different path to empower women. And by cracking open the conversation about our beliefs and behaviour we can shift the collective mindset to seeing menopause not as the end but as an opportunity for reinvention and revitalization.

She is the host of the popular Thriving Thru Menopause podcast.