Back Pain

Back pain affects over 80% of adults, you will read countless articles about why it happens, the theory behind why it happens and very little on what you can do. Most people search for backpain looking for answers.

Read on to find out what the actual "true" cause of your back pain is and what you can do now to ease your pain.

But first, some statistics to make you aware of how important it is to take action and remove your pain before it becomes chronic.

You know that over 80% of adults will suffer with back problems at some stage. That right now 7% of adults are in pain and 47% of adults will suffer this year.

Did you now that only 255 of those in pain now will be pain free in one year. The rest are worse or the same, and this included those seeking help and advice from various structural experts.

Why are there so many people with painful backs, when you know what causes it...

The causes of back pain

You know that you lift too often and objects that are too heavy. You sit poorly and your posture is not ideal. You stoop when you stand and you bend the wrong way at various times.

All of these cause your backpain, or do they?

If these caused pain, then there would be more than 80% of adults in pain, you would also have children being in pain more often. These factors are the last situation that allows pain to occur. They do not "cause" your pain.

You will see various modalities saying that pain is caused by tight muscles causing your body to fail to work correctly, leading to pain.

Others say it is weak muscles, Chiropractors say it is joint movement.

Who is right?

Actually they are all right and wrong. It is not one thing that causes your pain, it is a combination of factors, and not just physical.

If your spine twists and distorts back pain will develop with time as your muscles and joints fail to support your spine. Then when you lift, bend, twist or sit, pain will develop. A recent study showed that the final situation that people said caused their pain, was not big enough to cause any pain at all.

The study concluded it was an accumulation of micro-injuries that lead to back pain. These micro-injuries occur as your spine is distorted and allows the smaller movements to irritate the muscles and joints.

The physical cause of your back pain is the spinal distortion patterns that occur. The patterns are a combination of tight and weak muscles poor joint movement and a pelvis out of balance.

And these are just the physical causes. You also have stress, general health and fitness and your energy levels that will also allow muscles and joints to tire and create pain.

This may sound like backpain is impossible to cure. In fact it is easier now than ever before.

What can you do now?

Back pain is easy to cure, all you need to do is remove all the factors that cause it. But you need to use effective techniques.

You need to stretch tight muscles, but the important aspect is not what to stretch, but how and when to stretch. You do not need to spend half an hour or more stretching a few times each day.

You also need to build strength in weak muscles. This actually has the poorest success in back pain relief. Why? Unless you improve the nerve and blood supply to your muscles, exercise will fail to improve your structural strength.

Then you need to balance your joints and pelvis. Until recently this was the area of seeing a practitioner. Now there are self-adjustive techniques you can learn to get joints moving and your pelvis balanced. You still need to use effective and SAFE techniques, not those from people with no expertise in this area.

The first and VITAL step to relieve backpain is finding the distortion patterns. Unless you know which pattern you have you will not know what muscles or joints to target. There are only 4 main patterns to detect, which makes life a lot easier.

What is the best approach to ease your back pain?

To get long lasting results you must both remove the symptoms and the cause. First you must identify which spinal imbalances are present, then attack the symptomatic processes. This can be achieved by using many techniques from ice/heat, Acupressure and anti-inflammatory measures. Then you must perform corrective techniques that target the spinal imbalances.

The principles of Spinal Balancing address the both the pain and the root cause of the condition that is responsible for your lower right back pain. Through self assessments, your individual spinal imbalances can be identified, and a targeted corrective program can be developed for your specific needs.

Continue to the ... 3-Step-System for Back Pain Relief!