There are four simple steps for lower back pain relief. However, fail to complete all four steps and you will only ever get temporary relief. Why?

Unless you remove both the symptoms and the cause of your pain, it will return.

In fact, the latest statistics point out that only 25% of those in pain now will be pain free in one year. The rest are worse or just the same. The reason is simple enough…

If all you do is remove symptoms only, whether it is through medication or other means, you will only get short term results.

The solution is to make sure you use all four steps. So what are these miraculous four steps?

The first step is no miracle or secret. You must first find the cause of your pain. This is not how you lift or bend, it is the various distortion patterns that twist and distort your spine.

These distortion patterns allow joints and muscles to function poorly. As a result the muscles tire and then tighten which creates pain.

Which is why the second step is essential, which is removing pain. Symptom relief is the second step, yet you will see many people say “don’t fix symptoms, fix the cause”.

However, I’ve seldom found anyone that wants to remain in pain for longer than they should. Symptom relief will ease your pain and is a vital step. If pain has eased, dealing with the underlying causes out of pain is a more enjoyable prospect.

Symptom relief can occur within minutes if you use certain techniques. You can literally turn off the pain signals and feel so much better. But you must NEVER stop there. This is where most people stop and the reason why the back pain statistics are so poor.

Lower back pain relief is a four step process, not a two step wish and prayer.

The third step is balancing muscles. This means relaxing those muscles that are tight and stimulating those that are weak. Weak and tired muscles will tighten, which is why muscle balancing is important.

To strengthen a muscle you still need to exercise it (although there are certain types of stretches that both relax and strengthen the muscle at the same time), as well as stimulate the nerve and blood supply to the muscle.

Unless you improve the function of the muscle (which relates to its nerve and blood supply) then you will find the muscle continually tires and tightens.

The final step is balancing joints. This is part of the muscle balancing also as all muscles attach into joints. The pelvis is the key to joint balancing as the pelvis is the foundation of your spine.

Lower back pain relief will not occur unless your pelvis is in balance. This is the one area that if left untreated will recreate the muscle imbalances.

These four simple steps if used together will give you long lasting relief. Too many people suffer with low back pain needlessly.

But unless you address all the causes, pain will remain.

Lower back pain relief is a simple and quick process – find the cause, ease your pain, balance your muscles and joints. Then you will have long lasting relief for back pain

You may have heard the saying that opposites attract. In back pain relief the same concept applies. Let me explain…

When you walk your right arm moves forward at the same time as your left leg. Imagine having to walk with your right arm and leg moving forward at the same time. Try it - you feel awkward and uncomfortable.

After a period of time your muscles will tire as they are not used as they are designed. At times they will tire within minutes. As the muscles tire they tighten and pain develops.

An unbalanced motion is highly stressful on your body.

What has this got to do with back pain relief?

Well, your spine works in the same fashion. Your lower back is moving in conjunction with your upper neck. Your pelvis moves forward on the left as your right shoulder moves forward.

If you have lower back pain, there may also be some disturbance in your neck. If you have pain to the side of your spine lower down (called Sacro-Iliac pain) then you may find your opposite shoulder is not working well.

So when you look to finding the causes of your pain, you need to look further away than just the area of pain.

The areas that you now have pain in, may have been caused by an unbalanced motion in your spine that tires the muscles and creates the pain you have now. The area of pain may not be the only cause.

A common reason why pain struggles to disappear is that although the pain may be centered around your lower back, unless you remove some neck or shoulder tension, it just won’t settle down properly.

What does this mean for your own personal back pain relief regime?

Check muscle tightness in your entire body. It is simple to do initially. Just stretch all the muscles in your upper and lower body and assess which are tight. Stretch those muscles no matter where you have pain.

It is also best to also balance the joints the same way, you need to assess the entire spine including your pelvis. If you have lower back pain, rub your neck and see if you feel any tender spots.

If you have Sacro-Iliac pain rub your opposite shoulder joint and notice if there is pain around the joint.

If so, then you need to look at more than just the site of pain.

Symptom relief is easy, you look at the area of pain, work on some trigger points, stretch a few muscles, and strengthen a couple of weaker muscles and pain eases.

Then it returns…

If you find you are struggling with recurring or chronic back pain then you need to look away from the actual area of pain.

Think of the opposites, back pain relief will remain temporary relief unless you remove all the factors causing it. This may sound like a hard or complicated task, but in most cases a few simple techniques performed once will eliminate the majority of issues.

Don’t be fooled into just looking at the site of pain, even simply checking the areas that move in conjunction with the site of pain can reveal many hidden causes that are easy to correct.

Long lasting back pain relief is a simple process - find the cause, remove symptoms, balance muscles and joints (in your entire body) and finally train your body to stay pain free.

Firstly, back pain relief requires a multi-faceted approach if you want long lasting results. You must balance your muscles and joints, break the habitual pain cycle and learn to prevent pain returning.

However, Acupressure is a useful tool and will help you achieve the above.

But here is some confusion. Acupressure has many different forms, no different to medicine.

If you went to hospital and asked to see a Doctor. It could take you ten attempts before you found the “type” of Doctor you wished to see. They may have sent out an orthopedic surgeon when all you wanted was a cardio-vascular specialist.

The same applies to Acupressure. There are many different types of Acupressure, the most common is where you press or rub points firmly to ease pain. You may know if the point at the base of your thumb that people rub for pain relief whether it is back pain relief or headache relief.

There are also forms of Acupressure that use light touch, similar to jumper cabling a battery. These are older forms of Acupressure and the concept behind these is for your body to return to balance naturally, using your body’s internal ability to heal.

Acupressure looks at your body as having a series of energy channels running through it. If one or more of these channels becomes blocked, tension builds. No different to a river that suddenly has a dam placed in it.

The dam causes the river to flood above and the river below becomes dry. With meridians (the energy channels) you get many symptoms from one blockage.

This is why you can have back pain and note you feel bloated, constipated, tired, or many other symptoms. They are all part of that one blockage.

This is why so many people fail trying to relieve back aches. The blockages may cause muscles to tire or tighten, you may stretch and exercise these and get temporary relief. But unless you remove the blockage these will return.

This is why back pan relief requires a multi-faceted approach. You must balance muscles and joints, make sure your body is working well and break the habitual pain cycle.

Acupressure will help in this process if you use it as part of an overall approach. So to answer the question…

But does Acupressure work for back pain relief?

Yes, it has worked for many centuries and still works today. The firmer types of Acupressure are still more symptom related, but the softer forms work on points that help the underlying factors ease and disappear.

Only relying on a few stretches or exercise will only ever give you temporary relief. To make sure your back pain disappears long term, you need to look at all the factors causing it.

Acupressure is a great tool to help remove the causes that stretches and exercise won’t fix. Back pain relief will occur quicker and for longer if you add in Acupressure.

I suppose the obvious reasons why you should relieve back pain jump right out at you. After all who wants to be in pain?

But there is a problem…

Most people only ever do precisely that. They relieve back pain and then decide that is enough.

The reason you decided to ease your pain was to remove the pain that stops you enjoying your day to day life. You would rather be exercising, playing with your family or just being able to do your daily work without pain.

Yet as soon as pain eases, the majority of people stop there. They don’t carry on making sure all the underlying causes have gone. Why would you?

Surely working on the underlying factors takes hours in your day, takes months or years to change, you just don’t have the time or patience. Who would?

Did you know you’ve been misinformed though?

Removing all the causes of your back pain does not take much time at all. You only need to spend a few minutes each day to remove them and once new better habits have formed, you only need to check your body monthly to make sure things are still in balance.

The underlying issues are simply a few muscle and joint imbalances, you may have some daily stresses that tighten your muscles, possibly you’re more tired than you should be and a few other minor issues.

But look at it this way…

If you only ever relieve back pain, your future will be filled with pain. As time goes by the underlying issues will increase in number and severity. Pain will occur more frequently, be harder to correct and the repetitive episodes of pain will become more severe.

Prevention is just an investment. A few minutes each day for a week or two, then a few minutes each month to maintain a good healthy spine and you can look forward to years of pain free living.

But the one area that most people always forget to learn is not how to remove these underlying issues, but knowing what and where they are.

Unless you can assess your muscles and joints for imbalances you won’t know what the “true” cause is. You may only ever end up chasing symptoms. A few stretches and exercise will not remove all the physical causes.

Releasing stress is easy if you know simple techniques that take literally seconds to use. There are many simple natural techniques to build your health that you can do while relaxing watching TV. Exercise becomes normal as pain eases, energy levels rise and you feel great.

Don’t just relieve back pain, make sure you remove and eliminate it permanently. You will then lead a life free of pain now and

When you look at finally getting back pain relief, how does it make you feel? Can you actually imagine being pain free?

The secret to getting long term back pain relief is precisely that. Feeling good now, imagining the feelings you will have when you are able to perform all the activities you once did.

Being able to enjoy life with those you cherish most. Playing sport not watching it from the sidelines. Going for a walk because you want to not because it is supposedly good for your back.

Just think how you will feel when you can put in a full days work, come home play sport, enjoy the games with your children or your friends and still be completely pain free.

And not just pain free. Not ever thinking about your back and how painful it was. Having the 100% confidence that you can do anything at all and not ever have even a twinge of pain.

Can you imagine that?

Now don’t get me wrong, this is not some new age funk that tells you to sit on a mountain top for hours on end, to meditate your pain away or start eating bean sprouts even.

You still need to work on the various muscle and joint imbalances. There will be some physical techniques you need to use to make sure you can start this process. You may even need to do some exercise to help get your joints moving.

But one of the simplest things you can do now is hook into those feelings of being pain free and healthy.

You don’t even need to do this for 24 hours a day, not even 12 hours…

In fact if you can spend just 60 seconds hooking into the feeling of being healthy and having no pain at all. How it will make you feel and hold that thought in your mind for 60 seconds.

Even better, if you do this 10 times each day you will find you have an amazing ability to attract this situation. You are training your mind and body to accept this as the NORMAL way of life.

It will help to change the cellular, muscular and inherent internal memories of your pain to one of being pain free. It allows the healing process to work faster and more efficiently.

Back pain relief is not just a physical process, it is a mental process also.

Think of all the goals you have had in the past. To achieve them the first action you took was to think of a solution, to hold this in your mind so a process could follow.

The same applies with your back pain. If you think of your goal of being pain free, hold that thought in your mind, care for like you would a child and repeat this often, you will achieve your goal.

All it takes is 60 seconds, ten times each day, adding in some simple back pain relief techniques and you will lead a life you can only imagine now. But imagining it will allow it to happen.