Although eighty percent of adults suffer at some point with lower back pain it still remains very much a mystery to the medical world. Are we missing something? Is the answer a little closer to home?
If you have a medical examination for your lower back pain and no specific cause has been diagnosed, what can you do? You May have been told that it is either "all in your head" or, worse still, the suspicion of forgery to be absent from work. The problem is that if medical tests may not find probable cause it is assumed there is nothing wrong with you. Now, this is not much to you is it!
The problem I see is that medical science still does not realize what could be an important factor in back pain. This factor, in my opinion, is that most adults, because of the stress and the pressures of modern life, have lost the art of natural movement. "
How often are we stuck behind a desk, the wheel of a car or clued on the couch in front of the TV? What is it doing to our backs? We all know that we should be more active, but if we exercise or play a sport, we do still know how to move freely and efficiently as we have, such as young children?
Has your doctor advised exercise? Yes, it is true that activity as opposed to bed rest is better for the back, but how do you know if you are moving, right? If attitude and the way we are a cause of lower back pain, we are not the thing even worse, using our body more vigorously?
I would suggest that before you start on an exercise program so that your lower back you should consider how you stand, sit, walk and run. If you can learn to a lot of unnecessary stress on our lower back, this can go a long way to solving the problem for many patients.
One of the best ways to re-educate your muscles to the strain and we unknowingly place on our body is the Alexander Technique. This remarkable system can show you how your body as nature intended and can help to eliminate or drastically reduce lower back pain. As the teachers themselves, I see many people who once demonstrated a few simple "tricks" are amazed at how much effort they are unnecessary even for the simplest, everyday tasks. Once this was removed she feels lighter, their movement is freer and the pain just melts away.