Most men carry their wallet in their back pocket. Often the wallet is at least an inch thick with cash, cards, and receipts. When you sit on that wallet, raise one hip by the thickness of the wallet. Your misaligned hips cause your pelvic muscles to compensate, and higher up your spine, your shoulders cantilever the other way to compensate.

How do I know this? I used to be a call technician driving long hours for a living. After several months of driving, I had lower back pains and a very sharp pain on one side of my butt and a large accompanying bruise. I always felt as if something sharp was stabbing me in the buttock.

I first checked the car seat thinking there was a spring or bolt poking me but nothing. I then consulted with the doctor and chiropractor about the cause and they explained that it was sciatic pain caused by pressure on the sciatic nerve that runs from the pelvis to the thigh. They wanted to give me painkillers and operations to loosen my nerves.

Fortunately, a little common sense kicked in when I realized it was sitting in my wallet the entire time I was driving. When I took my wallet out of my back pocket and put it in the console or glove box in just a couple of days, the pain and bruising was gone.

This strategy also applies to everyone who sits at a desk all day to make a living. Put your wallet in a desk drawer or on the table in front of you. It just takes a little time to get in the habit of remembering where you put your wallet when you take it out of your pocket, and also remembering to pick it up when you get out of the car or the office.

But you don’t have to go through the trouble of forming a new habit if you don’t want to. Instead, you can spend hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars on expensive therapies and operations to relieve back pain and that will reduce the size of your wallet while achieving the same end result. The choice is up to you.

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