This is a series on low back pain. If you missed the summary of causes, go back to Part 1. Of all the muscles that cause low back pain, the quadratus lumborum is probably chief among them. This little muscle is under all the other low back muscles attaching to the bottom rib, the top […]
Recently I was asked to write something about immunity. I rarely get sick or have serious pain, but I’ve been working at prevention for forty years. Some of what I do I learned from a very forward-thinking doctor back in the 60’s and some is from things I’ve learned through my studies of health over […]
This is a series on low back pain. If you missed the summary of causes, go back to Part 1. We all hold our stress in different places depending on our personalities and experience. The low back is a common place to store emotional tension according to John E. Sarno, M.D.. His book, Healing Back […]
This is a series on low back pain. If you missed the summary of causes, go back to Part 1. “Sit up straight!” your mother would correct you. It wasn’t only because you looked bad slumped over, she knew that it was bad for your back, probably because she suffered from back pain herself. The […]
This is a series on low back pain. If you missed the summary of causes, go back to Part 1. When we move, our muscles work by contracting and relaxing, shortening then lengthening. Muscles work in opposing pairs. As one muscle contracts, the opposite muscles relax. That’s how we get movement. For instance, if the […]
This is a series on low back pain. If you missed the summary of causes, go back to Part 1. Often the cause of low back pain emerges after delving into a person’s past medical history and finding a forgotten injury or surgery. You wouldn’t think that something that happened when you were a young […]
This is a series on low back pain. If you missed the summary of causes, go back to Part 1. Whenever the skeleton is asymmetrical, the muscles are affected. Our bodies want to be in a state of equilibrium and have complicated systems to maintain that internal balance (homeostasis). That applies the musculoskeletal system as […]
This is a series on low back pain. If you missed the summary of causes, go back to Part 1. Life throws a lot of curve balls at us. After all, life is a school, not a beach. In the process of learning positive things from these events, we are also challenged emotionally. Those stressful […]
This is a series on low back pain. If you missed the summary of causes, go back to Part 1. There is no event that initiates back pain from this source. It’s just the sum total of all the tensions to which the back is subjected over time. People come into my Neuromuscular Therapy center […]
Weekend warriors please take note: My son, age 30, recently called me about his back. He was lying in the grass outside of his office building because the spasms had become so severe that he couldn’t sit at his desk without pain. I had him move in specific ways to help me understand what muscles […]