Lower back pain can be a debilitating, grueling experience that makes life not worth livingAs a fellow sufferer of lower back pain, I can sympathize with you. You CAN beat lower back pain without drugs, surgery or doctors. This program can help the vast majority of low back pain sufferers. Most people have something wrong with the muscles that surround and support the spine. The muscles are either too weak, too tight or don. t get enough blood supply. Even people who have mechanical problems with their spines can be greatly helped with this program. This series of stretching and strengthening exercises can definitely and dramatically help this problem. This program can save you from mega doses of pain-killers, back braces, surgery and untold thousands of dollars of doctors and hospital bills. The biggest thing this program can do for you is to make you completely pain free in a very short time.How This Program Was DevelopedAs a sufferer of lower back pain, I went to Medical Doctors, Chiropractors, Faith Healers and outright quacks. Nobody really had the answer for me. They all seemed to be interested in curing my current back pain symptoms, but very little attention was given to prevention or curing the back pain on a long term basis. I began to read everything I could get my hands on about lower back pain. There were a number of articles by people who had . cured. themselves by using strengthening and stretching exercises. I did not want to use drugs or surgery to get rid of the pain, but I equally wanted to get my life back. So I focused on developing a regimen of strengthening and stretching exercises that would give relief. The group of exercises and stretches that I put together is a mixture of yoga, ballet stretching exercises and exercises I learned at football practice. When I began using the strengthening and stretching exercises, the relief was almost immediate. It was shocking how quickly improvement came. It was a much better relief and certainly less expensive than any of the medical professionals had been able to give me.Twenty years of resultsI was in my early 30. s when I began to develop lower back pain. The episodes got progressively worst for a year or so. Then, they became debilitating, intensely painful and lasted 7 to 10 day. This is when I began to research lower back pain. It took me around 5 years to develop this series of exercises, but when it all came together, it really came together. That was 20 years ago. Since then, I have been virtually pain free and life is beautiful again. The back episodes have diminished drastically in frequency and intensity. These exercises that I do are now like a maintenance program for my back and I fully expect to have to do this for the rest of my life. Thank God for the exercises, instead of the back pain.AttitudeAbout 15 years ago, I told a woman scheduled to have her fourth back surgery about these stretches and exercises. I asked if she would do them. She very quickly told me, . No, I . m not going to do any exercises, THAT doctor is supposed to make my back well and he didn. t do it. Your best chance to avoid the surgeries and pain that this woman had endured is to take personal responsibility for your back. No one can do as well as you in making your back better. You can do it, but you have to be motivated and know what you are doing.Anatomy And Architecture Of The Spine And Supporting MusclesIt is important for you to understand that your spinal column is very much like a radio or TV tower with the supporting guide wires. The guide wires are the muscles that support the spinal column. They must be strong and yet flexible enough to allow for movement. The stronger and more flexible these muscles are, the more your back will be able to move and function without pain. They must also be balanced so that one set of muscles is not vastly stronger that the opposing set of support muscles. When your spinal column support muscles are strong, supple and balanced, you will have a healthy, functional, pain free back.Why strengthening and stretching exercises?There are three conditions that will dramatically help lower back pain. They are SLIMNESS, STRENGTH AND SUPPLENESS.Slimness is a very important component of a healthy back. Being slim can greatly reduce the stress on your spinal column. However, slimness is not the topic that we are dealing with here. I leave you on your own to get rid of your obesity, if you are over weight. Strength is the second component of a healthy back. You will feel very differently with strong spinal column support muscles. You will have a confidence and ease of movement that only strong muscles can give you.Suppleness or flexibility is the third part of the healthy back equation. You will have much more range of movement than you have had before. Your back and you will know and appreciates this. General RulesThere are some general rules about doing these exercises. All of these exercises are to be done in a most gentle manner. You will have to make an effort, but no grunting and straining. All exercises are to be done in slow, smooth movements, never jerky. And finally, if any exercise or component of any exercise causes pain, STOP IMMEDIATELY. Proceed on to the next exercise. At some later date, if you feel comfortable, go back to the exercise that caused the pain and try it very gently. If you have pain again, simply omit that exercise in the future. You probably will not be able to do all the recommended repetitions for each exercise at first, but continue to work toward it. You will become much stronger and more flexible. |