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chest at the same time. Maintain the abdominal draw in through-out the entire exercise. Repeat 10 to 20 times. 4. Abdominal draw in with heel slide. Lie on your back on table or mat. Draw the heel back to-wards the buttock while maintain-ing the abdominal draw in. Main-tain as you return to the start position. Repeat 10 to 20 times each leg. 5. Prone bridging on elbows. Using forearms/elbows on the table/mat, rise up so that the fore-arms and toes are resting; main-tain the abdominal draw in. The back should be straight. Hold this position for 15 seconds to a min-ute. Progress to 15-second incre-ments. Repeat five to 10 times. 6. Supine dead bugs. Lie on your back on table or mat with arms perpendicular to floor and hips and knees bent to 90 degrees. Draw in abdominal muscles and maintain throughout exercise. Extend one arm above head while simultaneously lowering the op-posite foot to the floor. Contract abdominal muscles to bring arms and legs back to starting position. Repeat on opposite side. Repeat 10 to 20 times. Before commencing a lumbar stabi-lization program, the patient should first be evaluated by the chiropractor. The doctor will then design a compre-hensive rehabilitation program with the above-mentioned techniques, along with any additional lumbar stabilization program specified to the patient. Since every patient is an indi-vidual and presents with different conditions, a chiropractor (or co-man-agement with a PT) is needed to de-sign and monitor the rehabilitation program. Supine abdominal draw in Abdominal draw in with knee to chest Abdominal draw in with heel slide Prone bridging on elbows BackSwing ‘15 British Columbia Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club, Coquitlam, BC www.cmcc.ca/BCBackSwing Sponsors: Silver Biological Botanicals McQuarrie Hunter LLP Bronze Hammerberg Lawyers LLP NYRC Hole-in-one GoldKey Automotive Group Investors Group Media Canadian Chiropractor CMCC’s golf tournament fundraiser Alberta Tuesday, June 23, 2015 Bears Paw Country Club, Calgary, AB www.cmcc.ca/ABBackSwing Sponsors: Friend of CMCC Optimum Wellness Media Canadian Chiropractor Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College 22 Canadian Chiropractor May 2015 www.canadianchiropractor.ca