You Can Relieve Back Pain Naturally at Home
Should I visit a chiropractor when I experience back pain?
Maybe; it may speed up the rehab process but it won’t take the place of a regular and systematic flexibility and strength training program that gets your skeleton back into better alignment. You can’t sub-contract out a flexibility and strength training program to a chiropractor.
Should I get an Xray when I have back pain.
Maybe, but while the Xray will show you that bones are out of alignment and discs herniated, it won’t provide you with information as to what has caused bones to go out of alignment and discs to herniate. For that you need a clinical diagnosis assessment of personally-generated joint and muscle pain.
What is a clinical diagnostic assessment of personally-generated joint and muscle pain?
The ability to perform a range of flexibility exercises will let you know if your skeleton is in good alignment. Those flexibility exercises you have difficulty performing will indicate which muscles need to be loosened off.
It’s pointless embarking on a course of treatment for back pain if you don’t know what’s caused it. It’s frequently the case that lower back pain is the symptom of a personally generated musculoskeletal dysfunction – that is, it’s something you’ve caused yourself.
There may be an incident you can blame – like lifting the groceries into your car or swivelling around to pick up a phone book. Still, before the incident came along, your body was so far out of alignment and so weak that you were a disaster waiting to happen.
Over the weeks, months, years and decades, weak and tight muscles have drawn the pelvis out of alignment. Tight hamstring, buttock and hip flexor muscles will do this – aided and abetted by weak muscles throughout your body.
If you don’t have a regular and systematic strength and flexibility training program, it’s almost inevitable that this will happen to you, and you’ll end up with back pain.
When the pelvis moves out of alignment, it drags the bones above it out of alignment, and that’s where you feel the pain.
Ligaments, tendons and muscles attached to the lower vertebrae are stretched beyond their pain threshold. Discs become herniated, and every time you sneeze or cough, the disc bulge hits your spinal cord, and it feels like someone is ramming a red hot poker into your back.
You could also get sciatica as the bulging disc traps the sciatic nerve.
Most doctors and therapists will direct their attention to the spot where it hurts. The doctor will prescribe a painkiller, but back pain is not due to a lack of Nurofen!
Most therapists will want to rub, crunch, heat, and vibrate the spot where the pain is. But, of course, the underlying cause of the pain is not at the site of the pain.
Rubbing, crunching, heating, and vibrating might temporarily relieve the pain, but they do not fix the underlying cause of the problem. You have to keep going back, forking out money that would be better off in your pocket than someone else’s.
So you need a good set of exercises to loosen off the tight muscles and strengthen the weak muscles that cause the problem.
You can do these exercises at home every evening in front of the TV.
You’ll save yourself a fortune in therapy, and as you gradually get your body back in better alignment, the pain will go away.
Treat lower back pain as a symptom of a body out of alignment. Since it is personally generated, it’s your job to personally ‘ungenerate’ it.
Straighten yourself up.
John Miller
