For anyone with piriformis syndrome, restless leg syndrome, low back pain, hip pain, buttock pain, sciatica pain, thigh pain and back leg pain, these 5 specific stretches will help. If you feel discomfort or pain when you stretch, that’s the place that needs it. You won’t harm yourself even if it hurts if you stretch […]
Limbering up your back first thing in the morning gets the blood flowing to feed your muscles, moves lymph to remove waste products that cause pain and softens the connective tissue that restricts movement. This is the toning and stretching routine I give out at my Neuromuscular Therapy center near Boston. Best done in bed […]
Back pain from a Lower Limb Length Inequality (LLLI) is a very common phenomenon, but since it is poorly understood medically, it doesn’t get much credence. In my practice I see it all the time. Just this month I’ve seen 5 patients with LLLI in my Neuromuscular Therapy center near Boston. The treatment usually involves […]
Pain from a curvature of the spine caused by LLLI (Lower Limb Length Inequality) is a common condition usually overlooked in medical evaluations. Having LLLI doesn’t always cause a problem, but when Trigger Points have formed, even one-eighth inch difference in the length of the legs can perpetuate pain if left uncorrected. (MDs Travell and […]
When low back pain is too severe to exercise and you can’t stay in bed, here are some simple stretches you can do at your desk to keep the muscles moving and the blood pumping. Movement of any kind helps. Even random movements increase blood flow which brings the repair and rebuilding cells, nutrients and oxygen […]
Structurally, the low back is the lumbar spine (five vertebrae) and the sacrum (the triangular bone at the base of your spine below the waist) with the coccyx (tail bone) at the tip. The lumbar spine is curved to make an arch in the small of your back. It is built to support weight. The […]
Back pain can be debilitating when unwise lifting or shoveling techniques cause strain in the muscles of the low back. Dave B., a slim man in his late twenties came into my Neuromuscular Therapy center in Metro-West Boston for treatment of back pain that came on suddenly while lifting cement blocks. There were no sounds […]
In the case of Addison G., treatment for acute hip pain was as follows: The culprit was the gluteus medius as I had suspected, but other muscles were involved. All were treated with Neuromuscular Therapy techniques in my greater Boston clinic. The gluteus medius radiated hot pain all around one specific Trigger Point site. It’s […]