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Improve your back pain -- or learn to prevent it!

Human Resources: Join the Better Back Challenge & learn stretches/exercises to keep your back healthy. Complete 4-week challenge to enter prize drawing!

Wed
3
May
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM May. 3, 2023
Online webinars at 9:30 am, 12:00 pm, and 4:00 pm
Registration Required

Did you know that lower back pain affects 80% of adults at some point in their lives? Depending on the severity, it can make everyday life harder, and keep you from doing the things you love most—but there's a lot you can do to help prevent it.

What's the Better Back Challenge?

First, check with your doctor to be sure it's okay for you to start any physical activity. Then, do 1-4 of the healthy back activities on the attached flyer every day for four weeks. Log your activities on the challenge tracker -- submit that tracker to be entered into the prize drawing!

Learn more about the challenge, back health, and how to use the tracker at the kick-off webinar on May 3rd: 9:30 am, 12:00 pm, or 4:00 pm CST (NOT required to participate in the challenge!)

Join the 4-week Better Back wellness challenge either individually or as a group or department. Employees can join the challenge virtually by following the steps below:

  1. Click HERE to register for the Better Back Challenge. 

  2. Upon registration, a health coach will email you a tracking form to use during the challenge. 

  3. Read the attached Better Back flyer to learn how this challenge can help prevent or improve low back pain. 

  4. Email your completed tracking form to your health coach by July 10, 2023 to be entered into a Prize Drawing. * 

  5. If you'd like more information, attend the kick-off webinar May 3rd 9:30am, 12:00pm or 4:00pm CST. The webinar is not required to participate in the challenge; it's 30 minutes and will provide useful info about the exercises and about the challenge itself.

Click HERE to register for the webinar. 

Wellness programs are sponsored by Mississippi’s State and School Employees’ Health Insurance Plan’s health initiative, Motivating Mississippi–Keys to Living Healthy and administered by ActiveHealth Management, the Plan’s wellness vendor. ©2023 ActiveHealth Management, Inc.

*Prize drawing Rules: No purchase necessary. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Legal residents of the 50 United States and D.C. 18 years and older are invited by the sponsor to participate. Void where prohibited. Sponsor: ActiveHealth Management, Inc 

Wellness programs are sponsored by Mississippi’s State and School Employees’ Health Insurance Plan’s health initiative, Motivating Mississippi–Keys to Living Healthy and administered by ActiveHealth Management, the Plan’s wellness vendor.

For assistance related to a disability, contact Lynn Wilkins: lwilkins@olemiss.edu |

Event posted by: lwilkins@olemiss.edu