Jim Irsay Quotes

Banish aches and pains by strengthening and stretching the muscles that affect your back.

­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

Ever since I've given up dancing, every physiotherapist or Pilates teacher has said you have to keep moving. If I don't, I'll have a hundred times more injuries because you get weak areas on your body.

I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.

What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

I think a lot of women have back problems.

Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

Personally, I don't stretch, I don't get massages. Maybe massages would be useful, but I just don't have the time for it.

From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Flexibility depends upon your range of motion and will enable you to do more day-to-day tasks with comfort and ease.

I think the two exercises that have helped me the most include using the bands with my ankles, and then another one of my favorites is where I lean on a balloon-shaped ball with my forehead touching it and rotate my head front, back and sideways to build up the muscles and ligaments in my neck.

When I blew my back out at age 42, I said, 'Okay, I've got to be more concerned about food and health.'

You become more aware of your body when you go through a long injury. You work on things you don't know about until you get injured, so different muscles.

I rest a bit more when I keep. The only thing I have to look after is my back and using different muscle groups.

Stretching exercises promote flexibility, so you move fluidly.

I've always been working with my rehab people, just to keep my body loose and fluid.

I've had 30 hamstring tears.

That's one thing I need to work on, my flexibility. I'm not mobile enough, am I.

How I hurt my knee was doing something so minimal that it was a little worrisome. To try that motion and others again, after the injury and after surgery, made you worry a bit.

By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.