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It's been a while since you could stand up straight, or comfortably bend over and lift something without pain.You've been through a lot of different therapies, with middling results. This article explains why those results were what they were -- and explains something that reliably works far better -- to the point where you can do whatever you want without pain. A new category of therapeutic exercises affects the cause of back muscle spasms -- distorted muscle/movement memory -- and causes muscles to let go without stretching. I am not exaggerating, but stating a fair expectation for this new type of exercise, called, "somatic education exercises". Of course, I don't expect you to take my word for it. However, if you find my explanations make sense, I expect you will test my words by doing what I show in the video at the bottom of this page. There's nothing like experience. |
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The video at right shows an actual (not simulated) somatic education session to end lower back pain.
On-screen comments highlight key points for best results in your own practice.
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Somatic education exercises end back pain by creating new muscular control. Spastic muscles let go and relax so completely that spasms no longer occur, even during heavy lifting. You have full strength. The shift is painless and progresses with each practice session. You'll notice that the pain is less, your balance has shifted more over the centers of your feet, and you feel taller. |
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Therapists hold fairly uniform opinions about how to relieve back pain -- strengthening, stretching, adjustments and massage. |
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Their typical expectations: a long, slow recovery period with a still-delicate back and a prognosis of lifelong care. You should expect better than that. Somatic education exercises to retrain movement memory provide the results one would hope for, from therapy: reliable, rapid, durable relief.
Test what's available on this page. Results are telling. It works. If you need more, work with me, one-on-one live-on-line or in person.
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Immediate Answers to Ten Basic Questions:
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When prescribing a treatment for back pain, the obvious first question a health-care provider must ask is, "What is the cause?" Is it muscular? skeletal? disc? nerve? or something more?
While always involving one or more of those four, the more important answer is, "something more", as you will learn.
Pain in the back, itself, usually comes from muscles in spasm; the pain is the "burn" of muscle fatigue.
When it's not muscle pain,
pain in the buttock or legs comes from tight muscles that compress the sciatic nerve where it emerges from the spinal column, or passes through the buttock (sciatica).
Disc herniation (bulge) or rupture, commonly caused by tight muscles, leads to nerve root compression that shows up as nerve pain distant from the location of the disc, itself.
Although some experts and practitioners cite "ligament strain" as the cause, that's rarely the case, and in any case ligament strain is an effect, not a cause.
"Spinal arthritis" and "facet joint syndrome" are not a disease entities, in themselves, but result from overcontracted back muscles causing neighboring vertebrae to rub and irritate each other.
All of these conditions trace back to that "something more", which I will explain in detail.
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A Body is More Than a 'Marvelous Machine'A living person is more than a machine. However, most approaches to back pain treat us as if we were a machine whose parts can be adjusted, as if our muscles are unresponsive objects that, if stretched, will stay stretched.
Well, we don't stay stretched, do we? (Otherwise, we wouldn't have to stretch again, and again.) If you've had treatment based upon stretching and you still hurt, you've seen that stretching doesn't work -- though you might not yet have reached that conclusion, in hope that it might yet work.
Doctors and therapists who administer treatment based on the body-as-machine idea expect therapy to take a long time and for you to remain in danger of relapse. (If you don't believe me, ask them.) They may have told you that you'll have to be careful of your back for the rest of your life and that you'll have to maintain a neutral spine position at all times.
The "body as machine" idea misses something basic: muscle/movement memory controls our back muscles and spinal alignment -- memory, not body-mechanics. If you get a spinal adjustment or do stretches or get massage, your muscle/movement memory resets your back muscles to the high state of muscular tension that caused the back pain to begin with, and you're back where you started, or close to it.
If you have had therapy that treats your body like a machine without regard for your sensibilities (as in surgery, strengthen-and-stretch therapy, electrical stimulation, heavy massage or fast adjustments), you may have experienced a rebound spasm and even more pain. If the rebound pain lasts for more than a day or two, that's not "par for the course"; it's a setback. Isn't it?
Your back is already sensitized and reactive. Wouldn't you like to be brought to ease? What if, instead of treating you like a machine (or with a machine), we bring you to ease with a non-invasive, self-controlled, "low-tech/high-touch" procedure that addresses your muscle/movement memory? What if changing your muscle/movement memory could bring you to a lower-stress, more easeful state even under desperate conditions such as severe back pain with disc bulges or nerve entrapment -- and do it so completely and so reliably that you no longer have to have any treatment or worry about a recurrence of symptoms?
I'm not posing this as a casual, fanciful, speculative "what if" question. I'm posing it as a question with consequences for your life, comfort and well-being. What I've just described is what I'm promising, here.
The approach I present here has helped thousands of people (not millions, yet) who have already had unsuccessful back surgery or other procedures to end back pain and recover freedom of movement. The results are highly reliable.
The video, above, shows one such person. This is a good time to take a moment to view it, if you haven't, already -- or listen to the webinar recordings, or both.
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Still, according to one physical therapist, the likelihood of a back pain patient returning in another episode of back pain is about 80%. Back surgeries have a success rate of about 15% and orthopedic surgeons are reluctant to perform them. The most commonly used approaches to muscle spasms, including massage therapy, help, but typically bring only partial relief. Has this been your experience?
Patients also face a quandary: money concerns. If you limit yourself to methods of treatment covered by health insurance, you are, in effect, choosing (at best) a longer recovery period. Is the money saved worth it? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
However, back exercises of the type described and shown here -- somatic education exercises -- potently support all forms of conventional treatment.
That means complete recovery in days or weeks, instead of months or years. Your trying something new will be rewarded by new results: faster improvement.
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About Back Pain Therapies -- Old and NewMost therapists hold that back pain comes from weak muscles and so have you doing "strengthening exercises".This conclusion is understandable, but wrong. Your back muscles may feel weak and in need of strengthening, but they're just tight and tired. They need relaxation, just as you do -- not higher muscle tone (exactly the direction leading to spasm). Most therapists see that you have tight muscles and so have you doing stretches. This approach is also understandable, but wrong. Muscles get and stay chronically tight from one cause: muscle/movement memory formed by injury, repetitive movements, or long-term stress. Stretching changes muscle/movement memory, at best, very very slowly. If stretching were a good answer, people who stretch would no longer have back problems. It begins to look as if "The Stretching 'Emporer' has no clothes", doesn't it? Tight muscles change spinal alignment, and unhealthy spinal alignment implies the need for strengthening and stretching to those who think of the body as a marvelous machine. But the problem isn't in your back muscles, themselves, but in the muscle/movement memory that controls them. Change your muscle/movement memory, change your back. It's simple: When muscles relax, they get refreshed (feel stronger); they lengthen and no longer seem to need stretching. Spasms end, spinal alignment normalizes, suppleness improves, and strength returns faster than by biomechanical methods. That's the breakthrough. A more direct approach, then, is to change your muscle/movement memory. With that, you still may not believe that you're 'out of the woods' until you test yourself with the demands befitting a healthy back. Test youself -- after you've thoroughly done the complete program offered, here. Lift something heavy. |
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Muscle weakness is not the issue. Muscle fatigue is the issue. Try as you might, you can't remedy muscle fatigue by strengthening tight muscles.
Spinal alignment is not the central issue. Muscular pulls that shape spinal alignment is the issue; bones go where muscles pull them.
Muscle/movement memory is the issue. It has final say on the activity of your back muscles.
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Before you try something new, you should:
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One or two practice sessions are enough to feel your back relax, lengthen, and flatten to a more comfortable alignment. The release accumulates.
Click for a free two-week evaluation period of Get Free from That Back Pain, the entire program. You get the full electronic download of the program. Get some experience. You'll know within two days if it's for you.
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