The cause of back pain is surely lifting wrong, or your poor posture, maybe it’s your sitting position, or any number of physical imbalances. Yet when I did a survey recently of some clients who had ordered my “17 Minute Back Pain Cure”, I had some unusual feedback.

relaxationThe most common issue these people wanted to know more about was stress relief. Not more stretches, or joint techniques, not even accelerated techniques we teach them to speed their back pain relief. They all, actually over 95%, wanted to know more on stress relief.

As you know, there is a financial crisis occurring, so that is why they ask for stress relief. I thought the same, but then I checked the results of a previous survey I did about 4 years ago. Guess what?

The same results, this time it was 87% wanting stress relief answers. The sample size was smaller, so in fact the results are similar.

Why stress relief, surely if you have back pain or if it has gone (like these people) they would want answers on how to stop it coming back … they do!

To actually stop the cause of back pain, you need to address the stress related issues. Stress causes back pain, it is a well known fact.

When you get stressed, your muscles will tighten, this then leads to joints not moving well and hence back pain occurs. Back pain relief must therefore address the stress issues as much as the physical changes.

Can I ask you a puzzling question?

Why do the majority of back pain relief sites only offer physical techniques? If you know, and I know, and surely they know, that stress is a big factor in back pain. Why do they not teach you some stress relief techniques?

Now I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but if you don’t know some simple stress relief techniques, your back pain will not disappear totally, or it will return again. Maybe that is why they don’t teach it.

The beauty of stress relief is, there are many techniques that also ease physical tension at the same time. Stress does cause back pain and stress relief will help with back pain relief.

The best approach to relieve back pain is therefore a combined approach. You need to remove the causes of back pain, such as tight muscles and the various joint and pelvic issues. But you must, and I stress must, remove the stress factors that cause back pain.

Stress relief is a vital part of back pain relief. No what type of back pain you have, stress will cause back pain at some level. You must therefore remove the stresses if you want long term relief from back pain.

Be Sociable, Share!