Musculoskeletal Dysfunction
There are five fundamental principles underlying musculoskeletal dysfunction.
- Muscles pull bones out of alignment. Based on this principle, there’s a fair chance that by training the muscles to do the job they were designed to do, muscles can pull bones back into alignment.
- The cause of the pain is rarely at the site of the pain. It’s pointless to ‘crunch’ L4 and L5 when the problem is caused by tight muscles elsewhere in the body. The chiropractor crunches the bones back ‘in’, and you pull them back ‘out’.
- It’s expecting a lot to get better by being poked, prodded, rubbed and crunched by someone else. You can’t sub-contract out your own strength and flexibility training program. Delegating or outsourcing your situps and press-ups doesn’t work!
- Therapy probably contributes about 20% to the rehab process. The other 80% comes from the exercises you do.
- Chances are you don’t have an injury; you have a dysfunction that was brought to light by an incident. You’ll blame the incident, not the underlying cause of the dysfunction – which is a body that’s weak, tight and out of alignment. Not lifting the bag of groceries into the back of your car caused the problem; instead, you could not perform the lift without tipping yourself over the edge.
Musculoskeletal dysfunction is certainly not caused by a lack of rub-downs, hot pads or crunches. A lack of Nurofen does not cause it!
How to relieve back pain fast?
The faster way to relieve back pain is to embark on a systematic flexibility training program to get your skeleton back into better alignment. Initially it will take you a couple of hours a day, which you can incorporate into your TV watching time. You’ll also need a regular and systematic strength training program.
Do stretches help lower back pain?
Definitely; they are the most potent remedy for restoring poor function to good, particularly when accompanied by a total body strength training program. They are the key to getting the skeleton back into alignment because they loosen tight muscles that have taken it out of alignment.
What is the most common cause of back pain?
Most back pain is personally generated. Most people with b ack pain don’t have a regular and systematic flexibility (and strength) training program that keeps their skeleton in good alignment. Then along comes and incident that ;’tips them over the edge.’ The incident gets the blame.
In the meantime, remember you can’t outsource your situps and press-ups.
Regards and best wishes
John Miller
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