Back Pain Relief

Back pain relief is actually a simple process if you follow the right steps to remove all causes of your pain.

The biggest mistake made in back relief is not completing the task. If you only decide to remove a few causes, then only expect temporary or short-term relief.

These five back pain relief steps are also easy to understand, which helps to emphasize the importance of completing each step. So what are these five steps...

Step One - Finding the Cause

The first step is vital, unless you know exactly what is wrong, you will not know what to fix. You may believe this area is simple - you have some tight muscles causing your back pain.

In fact ALL back pain, no matter where it is, is created by muscular tightness or spasm.

Please Note: I said created NOT caused.

The causes of your back pain are muscular and joint imbalances. These imbalances allow certain muscles to tighten and therefore create your pain.

There are 4 main imbalances centered around your pelvis that twist and distort your spine. These imbalances which you can read more about in our Free Back Pain Relief guide are commonly left untreated.

Unless these imbalances are corrected, any treatment that is directed just at the muscles creating your pain will give short term results.

These 4 imbalances occur from the many micro-injuries that happen over time. How you lift, bend, twist and carry objects are a factor. As is the stresses in your life, your general health and numerous other factors.

Once present they become a habit, which is the main reason why back pain repeats. Unless these imbalances are removed and your body is trained to remain in balance, pain will return.

Step Two - Symptom Relief

Although removing symptoms is for temporary back pain relief, it is still the best second step. Nobody wants to remain in pain for longer than they need be.

Symptom relief is directed towards the muscle tightness and spasm. In fact over 75% of your actual pain is created by Trigger Points.

Trigger Points are the tight knotted fibers of muscle. They are usually where the nerve meets the muscle and can be felt as tight, painful nodules in your muscles.

There are numerous ways to release trigger points and once eased, pain levels can dramatically decrease.

The easiest way to release these points is applying digital pressure on the point for 20 seconds, followed by a stretching he muscle. If you then use some simple Acupressure techniques you can prevent them returning while you address the underlying causes of your back pain.

Which is where the next steps enter...

Step Three - Muscle Balancing

Muscle balancing is another vital step in back pain relief. Balancing muscles is a combination of both relaxing and strengthening a muscle.

When a muscle tires it will tighten. The tight muscle allows trigger points to form and has an overall tightness too. These factors then create your pain.

Muscles are also affected by joint movement and the overall spinal balance, which is changed when one of the four main distortion patterns occur.

Relaxing muscles is simple; all you need to do is stretch. However stretching is commonly misused and hence has poor success with back relief.

Stretching has three essential parts - knowing what to stretch, how to stretch and when to stretch.

The "what to stretch" is simple enough; you stretch those muscles which are tight. It is the "how" and "when" that will change an ineffective stretch to a highly effective one.

Stretching need only take a few seconds if done correctly and will help to remove the imbalances that occur in you spine.

The fourth step is used in conjunction with muscle balancing and together they will remove the physical causes of your back pain.

Step Four - Joint Balancing

Joint balancing has two main areas to focus on.

The first is essential as it is the area that creates the spinal imbalance. As we said above, there are 4 main imbalances that occur in the spine.

These are centered around your pelvis and hence you need to rebalance the pelvis.

The pelvis is the foundation area of your spine. If you hurt a foot you can limp on the other side. If you hurt your back you have no other side to limp on.

When there are minor (and painless) injuries your pelvis will change position to remove tension from the area. Once in this imbalanced state for a period of time it will become "set" in this position.

This now creates one of the pelvic imbalances that allow overall tension in your spine to increase. This is why these distortion patterns MUST be removed to get long lasting back pain relief.

These patterns also allow individual joints to become under intense pressure. At times you need to target these joints and release the tension. Stretches and exercise won't help, this joint motion becomes "sticky" due to the ligaments and small muscles around the joint.

You can release the joint pressure by firmly pressing on the joint while you breathe in and relaxing the pressure as you breathe out. This helps ease tension and combined with the pelvic balancing will help joints to move freely.

The final step thought is the most important...

Step Five - Breaking Habits

This may sound unusual, but this is the main reason why back pain repeats for most.

Unless you train your body to heal and become pan free, it won't.

Back pain relief requires five steps. If you remove find the cause, remove the symptoms and then balance the muscles and joints, but forget to make sure your body stays pain free - pain will return.

Breaking habits is the easy part of this process though.

All you need to do is be "consistent".

If you learn to do the four steps, then you need to keep using these not until pain eases, but until the balances return. This is why being able to detect the various imbalances is the key.

If you can find these you can also use the same methods to monitor your progress. Checking and balancing the areas until the CAUSES have gone not just the pain.

You must think of your back pain as a fire alarm. The alarm is triggered AFTER the fire starts, not before. You put the fire out NOT just turn off the alarm.

The same with back pain!

You must remove the symptoms and the causes until they have all gone. By knowing how to find the causes you can use this assessment to make sure your spine is balanced and not just pain free.

What to do now

Back pain relief is a simple 5 step process. To get long term results for your back relief, you must complete all five steps. Simplify these to three steps and you can get faster and better results.

The first thing you should do is request a copy of our Free Relief Guide teaching you how to identify these distortion patterns...