Now that you know common causes of back pain you may have a better understanding of how to prevent and treat it in the first place. Relief from your pain is worth the effort it takes to lose a few pounds. Minding your posture, training yourself to lift with your legs – these small changes can add up to big relief for your back. But sometimes you need to do something more than all of this. Even if you are extremely careful you still have back pain – after all, you can’t very well live your

July 14, 2009 Chronic Back Pain Relief – Treatments You Should Know About The lower back is usually the targeted area where chronic back pains are reported to occur. The pain can even extend to the legs. The pains continue for months on end, and recur even after an episode of relief. Surgical and non-surgical Chronic Back Pain Relief can be obtained, but you have to have your back examined first. Over the counter anti-inflammatory pain relievers with no steroids are often used. There are tre

It still amazes me how many so called “back pain experts” still miss the most common cause of upper back pain. The reason I call it the “forgotten cause” is that although it is the most common cause, it is seldom ever mentioned. Did you know that your spine does NOT work in a segmental [...]

Does back pain have anything to do with leg length? It is actually a common question I get asked by my patients. Why? They have been told by other practitioners that due to their “leg length” differences they will always have back pain. What the practitioner is doing is making life easier each time, but [...]

When you suffer from back pain there are common muscles people and practitioners think of that are involved. There are of course your hip flexors, your hamstrings and your lower back muscles. You then accept your abdominal muscles have a part to play as well. There are 2 muscles that are not commonly thought of [...]