Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Your back pain won't get better on its own. It is wise to get to the bottom of this issue now, before time runs out. You will have to take action to see results, but action is all you will have to do, since all the information you need is right here at your fingertips.

No matter what you try on this website or any other, if at any time you feel sharp pains or the movements don't feel natural, stop. There's nothing wrong with seeing a chiropractor and they know all this stuff really well (though they can end up costing a pretty penny).

So why are these considered unique approaches?
There are a variety of things you can do to help your back pain, and there are a lot of traditional approaches. This author is fed up with the traditional approaches that don't work. I will describe as many of my unique approaches as I can here in detail so that you can feel relief from day one. You won't find most of these approaches on other websites, because not that many people know about them. Try the following approaches and you'll have a good shot at relieving your back pain permanently.

First things first. Strengthen your core muscles. These are the muscles around the abdomen area that keep you upright and keep your back straight.

  • Do the simple exercises which encourage your back to be straight like a plank: Simple rigid back Pushups and Pullups can help with strengthening the correct core muscles and keep the back straight.

  • Hold each of the following for 15s and then rest for 15s and move to the next one:

    • Stand against a wall, put an arm behind the small of your back. Tilt your head and body to the opposite side sliding your free arm down your leg. Repeat for the other arm

    • Stand facing a wall. Place your hand on the wall. Rotate your feet and body 90 degrees away from that arm until the arm is off to your side and a little behind you

    • Basic Cobra Pose (based on Cobra Yoga Pose): Lay face down on a mat. Arms by your sides palms down. Keep your face down with your chin near your chest and lift your upper body up with your back muscles.

    • Basic Fish Pose (based on Fish Yoga Pose): Lay flat on your back on a mat. Arch your back and push up with your elbows keeping your chin near your chest so your head does not tilt.

    • (Note: These yoga poses are intentionally lower impact and easier than the full yoga poses, and to be clear these are NOT real yoga poses (which are harder)).


So far, so good.

In the next post I will show more approaches and ideas to get your back firing on all cylinders again. Whatever is causing your back pain, I hope this blog helps.


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Sunday, January 24, 2010

When it comes to getting rid of back pain keep your eyes open. Keep trying things until you hit the nail on the head. Never give up.

As I promised, here are more of my unique approaches for you to work through:

Improve your posture. This is a common problem and a cmmon contributor to upper and lower back pain. There are several elements to good posture: sitting up straight, keeping the head back, laying down properly.

  • Sitting up straight is impossible if you are sitting on the wrong part of your bottom. Lean over so your thighs touch your chest before you sit down. You'll be on a different part of your bottom when you sit. Sit on that part of your bottom every time you sit.

  • Keeping the head back so it becomes business as usual. Many people have the "forward head" where the head sticks out in front of the shoulders which causes problems in the upper back. My wife calls it vulturing. Do the following 10 times per day (anytime): Move the head back (don't tilt it back) making a double chin. Try it again after you've done the yoga stretches below and the increased mobility will knock your socks off.

  • Rotate your shoulders forward and up and around and let them settle low and as far back as they'll stay. They belong in that position not hunched up and forward. You will find things your arms staying closer to your chest. Do this shoulder roll 10 times per day until keeping them back and down is business as usual.


One thing to be sure you never do:
  • Never lift with your back. You've probably heard to lift with your legs. That is the right approach. Lifting with your back puts tremendous strain in the wrong places. What if your legs aren't strong enough? Work them out until they are. Its that important.


Last but not least try "hanging by your teeth". Stand tall and look up and imagine biting into a trapese bar at the circus. Imagine you are hanging on a bar by your teeth. Then tilt your head forward again. This exercise pulls your body up straight and gets you in good shape to walk into a room standing tall.

Try these exercises and approaches, and when the dust settles, you are likely to have much more control over your posture and core muscles. Some of them are likely to relieve pain the first time you try them. Go whole hog with those and try them in different ways.

One more tip: Never give up. Don't throw in the towel. You can crack this egg and cure your back pain.


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Friday, January 22, 2010

Another Back Pain Solution:

One effective solution to lower back pain is Muscle Balance Therapy. This is a therapy that can be done at home and works quickly (often in just a few weeks).

Let me describe the process. It is ultimately pretty simple:

  1. Perform a series of simple self-assessments to determine what muscle imbalances are really causing the back pain (10-15min)
  2. Find immediate relief using up to 12 Pain Reduction Strategies. This will solve the prolem for now so you can treat and remove the dysfunction in the next step.
  3. Create long-term pain relief that lasts by treating and removing the actual dysfunction. This is the most important step.

The pain you are experiencing is a warning sign that indicates an underlying problem. By really solving the problem you cure the pain as well.

This is the system described above. It contains all the information you'll need to self-assess, relieve the pain, and cure the underlying problem.

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