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Back Pain --- Why you have it ... How to get rid of it
Back Pain is one of the most common pains in the world today… at least in the USA.
Over 80% of Americans will have back pain at some time in their lives, and as much as 20% may have a back ache right now, as you read this.
Back pain steals from you… enjoyment… productivity… family time… you name it, back pain is a thief.
But you can fight back!
You can win out over back pain when you know what causes it and how to get rid of it. This short report will outline a few things that you can do that really work.
First, let’s get rid of the back pain you already have. (Since you opened this link, I can pretty well assume that you have pain or are researching for someone else close to you.) There are things you can do to help yourself, but many back pains do require outside help to resolve.
Most of what you are about to read you can do for yourself. The best thing you can do is not get back pain in the first place, but we’ll address that a bit later. First things first.
To start, let’s get a couple of myths out of the way:
1. Back pain is NOT the result of a pain-killer deficiency. Millions of people take aspirin, Tylenol, Doan’s Pills or other over-the-counter pills to get rid of back pain. Sometimes they feel better. But does that really “get rid of it”? Or does it just suppress the pain… block the nerve signal so you can’t feel it? It’s great that you feel better, but… Is aspirin (or other drug) a cure… or a cover-up?
2. Back pain does not necessarily mean a problem in your low back. Many times it comes from another part of your body and refers pain to your back.
a. For example: A neck condition can “pass the buck” down your spine to the bottom vertebra, where there is no place to go. The pain then affects your back.
b. Some back pain comes from inside: an organ condition that feels like surface pain in your back.
c. Back pain can come from your feet! If one or both of your feet roll in (pronation), they twist the leg in a bit, and unbalance the pelvis, causing stress to your low back, and pain.
Let’s Explore What Causes Back Pain and What to do about it…
I’ll let you in on the secrets that many doctors won’t tell you, or maybe don’t know.
Commonly-known causes of primary back ache include:
Tension – When you are under stress, your body tenses up. If you focus the tension in your back muscles you wind up with a backache. Relief can be as simple as a long weekend away from it all. Leave you cell phone and other electronics home!
Toxins – Another common cause, especially in the city. Air pollution, processed food, make-up, all contribute. Your body can get rid of a lot of it, but can also be overwhelmed. As toxins build, pain results – headache, backache… fatigue and malaise… This can be handled often by cleaning out your insides – knock off the junk food, sugar, etc., quit smoking and/or avoid those who do. Eat out of the produce department, not the prepared-foods aisle. Drink plenty of water. Don’t give up. You are undoing years of “stuff”. Give your body time to clean itself.
But what about injuries to your back… a fall, heavy lifting, snow shoveling, car wreck? When the muscles in your back are tight as violin strings, they pull on your whole spine and limit motion. (Can you reach down to your toes easily?) As the injury ages with improper healing, the pain becomes dull and chronic and may affect you only when under noticeable stress. You blame the recent stress, but it is only a trigger, not the underlying cause.
Back pain can also be secondary to other conditions such as a common cold, pneumonia, the flu, or various infections or tumors. We will confine ourselves here to primary causes.
A surprisingly common and yet hardly thought-of cause of much pain:
A special type of tension pain: We think of tension coming from work, the boss, the commute, the economy, your everyday killer stress. While this is true, there is more to it.
There is another kind called verterbrogenic back pain. Vertebrogenic back pain is caused by vertebrae in your spine – usually your low back vertebrae – jamming together so that they don’t move well, or at all. Stress – the kind most of us experience every day – makes the ligaments holding your back together shorten by a millimeter or so. Such a small change shouldn’t be harmful, right? ………… This is where many people (and many doctors) miss the boat…
WRONG! The structures in your spine, from top to bottom, are packed so tightly, they have precious little wiggle room for such seemingly minor injuries. When they cannot move through their full range of motion, they irritate everything around them. It is like having a tiny wire brush in the area scrubbing away on the muscles, blood vessels, and (most delicate of all) the nerve roots.
When nerve roots become irritated, they also become inflamed. Like having a thorn under your fingernail and not removing it, the area becomes red and swollen.
Just as water in your computer will cause malfunction, inflamed nerves cannot carry the sensitive signals they are supposed to.
Results: … PAIN! …
Answer to Back Pain: … Three simple steps…
1. Find where the irritated nerves are.
2. Determine exactly how and why they are affected (discover the
cause).
3. Correct the cause … No More PAIN!
Know, don’t guess, where your pain comes from!
Receive a Surface EMG – computerized nerve scan at no charge.
NASA-developed technology measures nerve function and displays it in
easy-to-read format. Learn how to read it in seconds. See for
yourself where, and how much, your nerves are irritated and inflamed
– the bottom-bucket CAUSE of PAIN.
