There are solutions for low back pain. But first, to correct the problem and maintain long-term success, you need to know how to work with the body and not against it. Your body will always do the best it can under the circumstances you provide, so lets look at the physical side of back pain first.
Team Work
Muscle pain is rarely a one muscle problem. Muscles work in teams and every movement will have a prime mover, a leader in the action, with other team players supporting the movement. The opposite action muscles receive a signal to stop working. Muscles ideally respond to signals to switch on or off as needed.
When experiencing back pain, according to research published in The British Medical Journal, to keeping moving in spite of the pain is more helpful for long-term recovery. But just doing exercises only may not fix the problem. Exercise for the unprepared or unwilling muscle can actually make matters worse.
Activate slack muscles
If the under working muscles in the body are not receiving or sending a clear signal to the brain to be included in an exercise, then other muscles compensate automatically and the tension and pain problem can be compounded if you are not aware of what is happening and what to do.
When you use muscles regularly, the brain recognizes that activity as a request to keep those muscles in readiness, willing and able to respond as needed. When muscles are rarely used or used in a limited range with very little load, then the brain does not register these muscles as essential to your life work or life style. Muscles get attention by the brain when they are used and will lose tone rapidly when not part of your regular activity.
Muscles not used for a prolonged period, as when recovering from injury, may be dropped from the “working circuit” and will likely lose tone and muscle mass. They need to be reintroduced for the brain to reconsider how and when to include them in with other working muscles and gradually be given more duties as they rebuild and strengthen. The brain can and will build new circuitry or add to existing neural networks to do this. It’s quite amazing when you think about it.
If a muscle has been out of the working program for a while or the tone is very low, then exercises are difficult to perform and even a little effort can feel like a strain. Gently upgrading the working program in the brain with kinesiology techniques makes it easier to activate muscles so they can be exercised safely and appropriately. It speeds up building muscle mass too.
Kinesiology Solutions for Back Pain
In Kinesiology there are a variety of ways to deal with the physical cause of muscle pain. The Touch For Health style of kinesiology focuses on identifying and activating the under working muscles throughout the body first, so they can take up their share of the load and the overworking painful muscles can relax off and do less. The aim is to redistribute the demand on postural muscles and improve energy flow. This can often reduce back pain 60% if not more, just through a basic 14 or more extensive 42 muscle energy balance process.
Kinesiology correction techniques can bring immediate changes in muscles. Spinal Reflexes are applied when a muscles shows poor response on both left and right of the body. Poor activity on either left or right side only responds well to specific points that stimulate the lymphatic system to improve clearance of waste products in the muscle area. This reduces congestion and improves energy flow and the muscle becomes more responsive immediately.
Other points increase blood flow to the muscle. Running the meridian that supports a specific muscle may be required or activating cells within the muscle or in the attachments work well when the muscle has been over strained or damaged.
These are basic techniques that anyone can apply to reduce pain once they learn where the points are and the type of stimulation required.
Corrections Reduce Pain
In kinesiology the muscle response monitoring procedure can identify which muscle is under-working and which specific point or correction will reinstate the muscle responsiveness. The results are immediate and the point or points can be done at home to maintain the improvement till the body is able to maintain the improvement on its own.
Each muscle is preprogrammed to know its own job and to help out other muscles if they are failing or struggling. This is a natural compensating and supporting ability that we take for granted or don’t even recognize is happening, yet is essential for smooth and graceful as well as powerful use of your body muscles. It is a beautiful example of community work within the body.
As the body is holistic in its communications, in a TFH balance the whole system of meridian energy distribution for muscle use is checked, not just the muscles in the pain area. Rechecking the subjective pain level at the end of a muscle energy balance typically reveals reduced pain levels and a more relaxed and improved alignment of posture plus greater mobility.
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The body is very willing to respond to the caring touch that activates specific points which connect internal resources. Pain is a signal. This is your body’s language for something needing help and it responds to your specialized input.
There are other causes for back pain that I’ll cover separately.
You don’t have to feel helpless or stuck when wanting to reduce pain to feel better, look better and be better. Book in for a kinesiology balance and experience the impact of working with your body to gain the results you want.
Register for the next Touch For Health Workshop and discover the safe and simple techniques that can keep your back pain free and functioning efficiently and effectively, expanding your options for joyful activity at every age and stage of your life.
Cheers
Anna McRobert