Back pain relief … you may be asking what back pain has got to do with habits.

The answer actually comes in two parts – chronic back pain especially is habitual, so you need to change the habits of your joints and muscles if you want permanent back pain relief. Secondly, if you don’t use techniques habitually, do not expect to have permanent change.

The first answer can be explained as such…

Anything you do consistently over time is assumed to be “normal“. For example, the side of the bed you get out of in the morning. If you get out on the left, try getting out on the right tomorrow. It is almost impossible. Why?

Habit has made you automatically get out on the left side. To change to the right side you need to change the habits buy working on this aspect each day, until it becomes automatic to get out on the right side.

How long does it take?

It takes 31 days to form a habit… it also takes 31 days to break one!

This leads you into the second answer.

The most common mistake people make when dealing with back pain relief, whether it is you doing techniques at home or seeing a practitioner. You need habitual change to make permanent change.

Seeing a practitioner will not change your habitual back pain. Sure seeing a practitioner is advisable at times, but all they can do is implant a new way of working. You need to make it a habit.

You therefore need to do techniques at home to reinforce their procedures. Otherwise the habits remain, you will get back pain relief, but your back pain will return. Why?

Because the habits remain.

This is why there is so much negativity about practitioners. There are those saying “don’t go to see your Chiropractor – you will see them for the rest of your life” … or “don’t see a Physio – as they never seem to get you better” … and even medicine “drugs are good to ease pain – but stop them and pain comes back“.

The practitioners are not at fault (some may be though…), but the fault lies in not being taught techniques to reinforce their methods so that your habits break and better ways develop.

Then there is also the problem where even if you know what to do … you feel your back pain has gone… so you stop using the techniques.

What should you do?

Simple, use techniques daily for at least a month (31 days). Use techniques that you can see working and you can assess to make sure the habits are forming. You need to be able to pre-test and post-test, to make sure you are improving and that habits are forming.

Then you will know that…

1. Your back pain has gone
2. Habits are broken and new ones formed.

Then and only then should you continue on with the techniques on a maintenance basis.

So many questions and so few answers you may be saying. How do you learn simple and effective ways to remove your back pain, break the habits and be able to monitor your progress?

Back Pain Relief needs techniques you can use at home to remove your back pain. Ways to assess your spine to make sure it is balanced. Techniques to makes sure the habits have formed and are maintained. Techniques to realign your spine, balance your pelvis, ways to stretch effectively and techniques to strengthen muscles … all taking only minutes each day.

Back pain will disappear … totally … permanently … only if you change the habits that allowed it in the first place…