Reasons Your Back Pain Exercises Don’t Work and What You Can Do About It
October 30, 2009 by Back & Neck Pain Resources
Filed under Back Pain Conditions, Pain Relief Treatments
If you suffer from chronic back pain, chances are you have a long list of cookie-cutter exercises that are supposed to provide pain relief, strengthen your back, and build the muscles that support the spine.
If you’re sticking to these exercises, you may very well see some pain relief, BUT if you’re not getting results from your back exercise routine, there’s a good explanation.
Here’s the deal, cookie-cutter back pain exercises fall short because they aren’t geared to your specific cause. In order to get rid of your chronic back problem, you need to focus on back pain exercises that target your unique circumstance. For example, If you’re suffering from sciatica, and you have pain shooting down your legs, a back pain exercise that is targeted toward the upper back may be futile for you.
You may find it difficult to pinpoint your specific back pain exercise needs. Your best bet is to first examine the balance of your body.
Believe it or not, most back pain and tension is caused by living with a body that is ‘out of balance’.
It only makes sense that the load bearing integrity of your body will be compromised if the foundation of your body is out of balance.
Your spine has a natural curve, and consists of a series of consecutive discs. If the natural curve of your spine extends beyond a certain point, or just one of those discs slips out of alignment, the strength of your spine becomes significantly weaker. Imagine your spine as a spring, as long as the coils are aligned as they should, the spring will flex and bend with ease. But, if just one coil is kinked or pulled, suddenly the spring becomes useless. The same goes for your skeletal structure.
Your skeletal structure isdesigned to work smoothly in a specific manner.
Typically, when we’re born our spine is flawlessly curved, our joints work smoothly, and the balance of our skeletal structure is perfect. But, as time goes by we spend more and more time sitting, we develop poor posture, we suffer trauma, we develop poor stress management habits, and the list goes on.
As a result of these developments, our once balanced physique becomes contorted, and when the pain starts, as it inevitably will, we neglect to take steps toward correcting our balance issues, and instead we be begin doing cookie-cutter back pain exercises.
For this reason alone, it is imperative that you practice back pain exercises that are designed to eliminate your specific issue. In many cases, this will mean addressing your posture, your alignment, and your overall physical stature.
So, where do you begin?
Start by examining your current needs. Where is your pain, do you slouch when you stand, what about when you sit, is one shoulder higher than the other, are your legs at even length, etc.?
Once you’ve assessed your specific problems, be they upper back pain, middle back tension, or sciatica associated with the lower back, with the right instruction (guided by a uniquely qualified practitioner or therapist) you CAN pinpoint the exact exercise and pain relief techniques that will eliminate your pain and heal your back.
If your current back pain exercises are bearing no fruit, consider exploring other, more successful and beneficial options. You have nothing to lose but pain, and there’s no time like the present.
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