Here is a short areicle from live journal.
"After a day of shoveling and housework yesterday I managed to wrench my back pretty bad but after some meds and a heating pad I was felling pretty good until I went to bed. I awoke this morning barely able to move, my back had tensed up over night and made me as stiff as a board. Every move I make brings tears to my eyes, the pain is excruitating and made 10 times worse by kids who want to climb all over me and not listen to a word I say. I have taken countless medications today from tylenol and ibporfen all the way to a muscle relaxor. I have used ice packs and heating pads. I have even used topical pain relieveing gels like Biofreeze and still can barely move. And then the news so kindly informs me that we are under a winter weather watch until Tuesday morning which means more snow and more shoveling. The even thought of more snow makes me want to cry, I do not know if my body can take another another round of shoveling so soon. It hurts to move and I know I have to go to work tomorrow as I have things that need to get done."
Dont overexert yourself and expect to be fine next day
As usual if you want more related info, goto www.backpainloss.com
Be well
Paul
Showing posts with label Back Pain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Back Pain. Show all posts
Monday, 12 January 2009
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Causes of Low Back Pain
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"Causes Of Low Back Pain
December 7, 2008 · Filed Under Back Pain Relief, Low Back Pain During Pregnancy, low back pain
Low Back Pain
Low back pain is the most common problem of men and women who are active in the work place.
So great tips on how to prevent it is a welcome piece of information.
It is one of the most common problem of active men and women.
Low back pain has several causes. It can be caused by a strain or sprain of your low back muscles and ligaments.
It can be caused by a postural situation like a sway back problem know as exaggerated lumbar lordosis, the convexity of the curve is towards the front part of the lumbar spine.
Developmental causes known as scoliosis can cause low back pain For people that are heavy lifters, low back pain can be caused by strain/sprain of the muscles and ligaments of the low back or it can be due to a herniated disc or discs.
For people above forty years old, degenerative changes of the spine (osteoarthritis) are common causes of back pain. Inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis which can affect all ages, can also cause low-back pain., associated with pain in multiple joints of the body.
Tumors , benign or malignant or metatastatic neoplasm that affect the vertebral bodies can also cause low back pain.There are more causes of low back pain which are beyond the scope of this article.
My discussion about the seven great tips on how to prevent low back pain is directed to
The non-structural causes of low back pain which are common in an active person’s life
Some structural causes of low back pain that I mentioned above can be prevented, but those that that has already produced structural changes in the vertebra and vertebral discs or muscles along the spinal column cannot usually be prevented.
Herniated Discs or ruptured discs can sometimes be prevented by proper lifting habits, unless these are cdaused by accidents. An accident is defined as a situation that cannot be foresee, and if foreseen, it cannot be prevented.
So I will confine my discussion to the prevention of low back pain due to common non-structural causes like, sprains, strains, sway-back and I will touch on prevention of herniated discs.
Here are the 7 great tips on how to prevent common causes of low back pain..
1.Correct your sway back (lordosis) situation. You can do this by pelvic tilts exercises and strengthening the abdominal muscles. Lie down on the firm bed with hips and knees bent, both feet on bed. Tilt your pelvis forwards so that your low back is flat on bed, hold this for 5 seconds then relax for 5 seconds and repeat 25 times. Then tilt your pelvis, then try to touch the top of your knees with both hands, hold for 5 seconds, relax, rest for r5 seconds and repeat for 25 times. Do these twice a day.
2. Correct weak abdominal muscles by exercises. Women who just gave birth to babies have weak abdominals, so they need the abdominal strengthening exercises. Shortly after delivery.
3. Avoid or correct overweight problems that promote protruding abdomen and weak abdominal muscles.
4.Proper Lifting Habits. Be sure that when you lift something heavy from the floor, you have to tilt your pelvis, tighten the abdominal muscles, keep the low back straight, bend your knees before lifting the weight. This practice of proper lifting habits can save you from herniated or ruptured discs.
5.Be sure to tilt your pelvis, tighten the abdominal muscles when you are standing or bending like in brushing your teeth.
6. Before pulling or pushing heavy stuff, you have to tilt your pelvis, tighten your abdominal muscles before you push or pull This can also save you from herniating or rupturing your discs in your low back.. .
7. General body conditioning and physical fitness and avoidance or correction of overweight problem are important in the prevention of common causes of low back pain."
Hope you enjoyed this.
For more on back pain go to http://www.backpainloss.com
Paul
"Causes Of Low Back Pain
December 7, 2008 · Filed Under Back Pain Relief, Low Back Pain During Pregnancy, low back pain
Low Back Pain
Low back pain is the most common problem of men and women who are active in the work place.
So great tips on how to prevent it is a welcome piece of information.
It is one of the most common problem of active men and women.
Low back pain has several causes. It can be caused by a strain or sprain of your low back muscles and ligaments.
It can be caused by a postural situation like a sway back problem know as exaggerated lumbar lordosis, the convexity of the curve is towards the front part of the lumbar spine.
Developmental causes known as scoliosis can cause low back pain For people that are heavy lifters, low back pain can be caused by strain/sprain of the muscles and ligaments of the low back or it can be due to a herniated disc or discs.
For people above forty years old, degenerative changes of the spine (osteoarthritis) are common causes of back pain. Inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis which can affect all ages, can also cause low-back pain., associated with pain in multiple joints of the body.
Tumors , benign or malignant or metatastatic neoplasm that affect the vertebral bodies can also cause low back pain.There are more causes of low back pain which are beyond the scope of this article.
My discussion about the seven great tips on how to prevent low back pain is directed to
The non-structural causes of low back pain which are common in an active person’s life
Some structural causes of low back pain that I mentioned above can be prevented, but those that that has already produced structural changes in the vertebra and vertebral discs or muscles along the spinal column cannot usually be prevented.
Herniated Discs or ruptured discs can sometimes be prevented by proper lifting habits, unless these are cdaused by accidents. An accident is defined as a situation that cannot be foresee, and if foreseen, it cannot be prevented.
So I will confine my discussion to the prevention of low back pain due to common non-structural causes like, sprains, strains, sway-back and I will touch on prevention of herniated discs.
Here are the 7 great tips on how to prevent common causes of low back pain..
1.Correct your sway back (lordosis) situation. You can do this by pelvic tilts exercises and strengthening the abdominal muscles. Lie down on the firm bed with hips and knees bent, both feet on bed. Tilt your pelvis forwards so that your low back is flat on bed, hold this for 5 seconds then relax for 5 seconds and repeat 25 times. Then tilt your pelvis, then try to touch the top of your knees with both hands, hold for 5 seconds, relax, rest for r5 seconds and repeat for 25 times. Do these twice a day.
2. Correct weak abdominal muscles by exercises. Women who just gave birth to babies have weak abdominals, so they need the abdominal strengthening exercises. Shortly after delivery.
3. Avoid or correct overweight problems that promote protruding abdomen and weak abdominal muscles.
4.Proper Lifting Habits. Be sure that when you lift something heavy from the floor, you have to tilt your pelvis, tighten the abdominal muscles, keep the low back straight, bend your knees before lifting the weight. This practice of proper lifting habits can save you from herniated or ruptured discs.
5.Be sure to tilt your pelvis, tighten the abdominal muscles when you are standing or bending like in brushing your teeth.
6. Before pulling or pushing heavy stuff, you have to tilt your pelvis, tighten your abdominal muscles before you push or pull This can also save you from herniating or rupturing your discs in your low back.. .
7. General body conditioning and physical fitness and avoidance or correction of overweight problem are important in the prevention of common causes of low back pain."
Hope you enjoyed this.
For more on back pain go to http://www.backpainloss.com
Paul
Monday, 13 October 2008
What is Pain, cont
Hello again
Yesterday I was trying to explain that damage to one part of the body, may have an effect on other parts. For instance my daughter had a birth problem with one foot. A slight spur of bone on right foot. It was picked up by our dentist who could not explain the overbite in her jaw. An Amatsu practitioner traced the fault and over a period of several months attempted to balance my Daughters body. In the end he insisted we get the foot Xrayed, with the result the sour was found. It was never truly resolved as the spur regrows and medical science wanted to fuse the the foot, then in time the leg. My daughter lives the annoyance and I am on hand to mobilize her foot when the pain gets bad.
Also I was attempting to male the point that physical pain may have an emotional cause. When I took my second year Amatsu examination I carried out what I thouht was a satisfactory balance. However the fellow student I worked on did not agree. Her right shoulder did not respond to my efforts, and was getting frustated. The lady told me not to get upset as both the Instructors had worked on it, without success. Her actual words were, "no one can do anything untill its ready"
Several years later after an NLP course I realised that people have all sorts of physical problem, phobias and fears that have an emotional root. Untill the root cause is addresed the issue wont go away.
This involves, in many cases, reliving the original trauma. Which might work or might bring some other problem. I am reading a book on TM (meditation) and the underlying believe there is by meditating you ease/loose stress. This reduces or eliminates personal issues without the need to face demons. Seems quite interesting.
I will get back to more reasonable length postings.
Bye for noe.
Paul
Yesterday I was trying to explain that damage to one part of the body, may have an effect on other parts. For instance my daughter had a birth problem with one foot. A slight spur of bone on right foot. It was picked up by our dentist who could not explain the overbite in her jaw. An Amatsu practitioner traced the fault and over a period of several months attempted to balance my Daughters body. In the end he insisted we get the foot Xrayed, with the result the sour was found. It was never truly resolved as the spur regrows and medical science wanted to fuse the the foot, then in time the leg. My daughter lives the annoyance and I am on hand to mobilize her foot when the pain gets bad.
Also I was attempting to male the point that physical pain may have an emotional cause. When I took my second year Amatsu examination I carried out what I thouht was a satisfactory balance. However the fellow student I worked on did not agree. Her right shoulder did not respond to my efforts, and was getting frustated. The lady told me not to get upset as both the Instructors had worked on it, without success. Her actual words were, "no one can do anything untill its ready"
Several years later after an NLP course I realised that people have all sorts of physical problem, phobias and fears that have an emotional root. Untill the root cause is addresed the issue wont go away.
This involves, in many cases, reliving the original trauma. Which might work or might bring some other problem. I am reading a book on TM (meditation) and the underlying believe there is by meditating you ease/loose stress. This reduces or eliminates personal issues without the need to face demons. Seems quite interesting.
I will get back to more reasonable length postings.
Bye for noe.
Paul
Sunday, 12 October 2008
What is Pain
Hello
A rather interesting heading for to days offering. If anyone ever goes to http://www.backpainloss.com and reads about me and shoes, you will understand the rest of this, writing.
My wife has recently complained of lower back pains, for a week or so. Well you might be forgiven for expecting me to use the little Therapeutic skills I have to sort out her back. Instead I have been working on one of her knees. I learnt some time ago that the old song "Them Bones" was very apt. Especially the bit about each bone being connected to another bone. As far as my limited Anatomy and Physiology goes, few, if any, bones are connected. There are, however, a multitude of muscles, ligaments and sinews covering and linking bones so that the effect is that there is a connection.
What has this to do with my wife? Her knee has been "out" now for nearly a month. I started with Reiki, putting in energy, then a body balance helped for a week. I went back to bas ice, for me, and looked up the Reflex point for the knee, its been so long.
To cut a long story short, the knee has a reason to hurt, non physical, so I will be carrying out an EFT (look it up) and finding the root cause.
The point of all this was to say, when you find yourself with a pain, take a step back, is there a reason for it? I have a pain in my shoulder when I pick up a computer mouse with my left hand, but that's another story.
Bye for now.
Paul
A rather interesting heading for to days offering. If anyone ever goes to http://www.backpainloss.com and reads about me and shoes, you will understand the rest of this, writing.
My wife has recently complained of lower back pains, for a week or so. Well you might be forgiven for expecting me to use the little Therapeutic skills I have to sort out her back. Instead I have been working on one of her knees. I learnt some time ago that the old song "Them Bones" was very apt. Especially the bit about each bone being connected to another bone. As far as my limited Anatomy and Physiology goes, few, if any, bones are connected. There are, however, a multitude of muscles, ligaments and sinews covering and linking bones so that the effect is that there is a connection.
What has this to do with my wife? Her knee has been "out" now for nearly a month. I started with Reiki, putting in energy, then a body balance helped for a week. I went back to bas ice, for me, and looked up the Reflex point for the knee, its been so long.
To cut a long story short, the knee has a reason to hurt, non physical, so I will be carrying out an EFT (look it up) and finding the root cause.
The point of all this was to say, when you find yourself with a pain, take a step back, is there a reason for it? I have a pain in my shoulder when I pick up a computer mouse with my left hand, but that's another story.
Bye for now.
Paul
Saturday, 11 October 2008
Excruciating back pain
Back pain can range in severity from an annoying and occasional pain to a constant excruciating and debilitating back pain that may become an overwhelming negative part of life and relationships.
Muscle strains (pulled muscles) are commonly identified as the cause of back pain, as are muscle imbalances. Pain from such an injury often remains as long as the muscle imbalances persist. The muscle imbalances cause a mechanical problem with the skeleton, building up pressure at points along the spine, which causes the pain.
For more information please goto http://www.backpainloss.com/Articles.html
Muscle strains (pulled muscles) are commonly identified as the cause of back pain, as are muscle imbalances. Pain from such an injury often remains as long as the muscle imbalances persist. The muscle imbalances cause a mechanical problem with the skeleton, building up pressure at points along the spine, which causes the pain.
For more information please goto http://www.backpainloss.com/Articles.html
Monday, 11 August 2008
Exercise and Back Pain
Hello,
Today I thought I would talk about Exercise and Back Pain, or how regular exercise, within your own limits, may help with the general health and flexability of your back. The reverse, of course, is true, that is irregular extreme exercise may cause pain and discomfort.
I think we all agree that exercise, in moderation, is good for all of us. Some time ago I found myself slightly overweight and unfit, the reason? I had not been regularly exercising for some time, and as a result I was a little out of condition.
In order to help the whole family, my wife bought an electronic fitness system, no names, and I looked forward to some fun fitness programes and a quick return to my previous healthy condition.
We had two teenage relatives staying with us and they pounced on the thing and started to play with it. My son, who has just finished University and has some time on his hands, did the same. Then my wife, who technically owned it all, joined in.
I sat back and waited for the fuss to die down before I had a go. As I was a week behind everyone else, I thought, push yourself and catch up, always a mistake!
The first time I went on, I found a general weakness in muscle strength, poor balance and a long way to go to get the cardio- vascular system working properly. Also I was about 15 years "older" according to the machine.I spent about 35 minutes training and was exhausted at the end. The second day I spent 40 minutes and was even worse. The system gives a warning that you should take a break, well I don't have time to take breaks and so I kept on. The third day after 45 minutes I felt I was getting there, until I felt a lump in my right shoulder, a knotted muscle, that was very painful. This was followed by a pain down the right side of my back and pains in my pectoral muscle.
The words of my last personal trainer came back to me, "never exert yourself and vaty your program day to day" came to mind. Several days of mobilisation, massage and rest followed before I was able to resume the training. So was pushing past the limits rather than taking it slow and steady worth it? In the end I am over a week "behind" the others and will re start slowly
Never push yourself beyond limits that are set for a reason and work slowly and surely. Aim for a flexible supple body first, then go for strength and stamina.
Find out how you can exercise, within your limits, then go to www.backpainloss.com
Be well
Paul
Today I thought I would talk about Exercise and Back Pain, or how regular exercise, within your own limits, may help with the general health and flexability of your back. The reverse, of course, is true, that is irregular extreme exercise may cause pain and discomfort.
I think we all agree that exercise, in moderation, is good for all of us. Some time ago I found myself slightly overweight and unfit, the reason? I had not been regularly exercising for some time, and as a result I was a little out of condition.
In order to help the whole family, my wife bought an electronic fitness system, no names, and I looked forward to some fun fitness programes and a quick return to my previous healthy condition.
We had two teenage relatives staying with us and they pounced on the thing and started to play with it. My son, who has just finished University and has some time on his hands, did the same. Then my wife, who technically owned it all, joined in.
I sat back and waited for the fuss to die down before I had a go. As I was a week behind everyone else, I thought, push yourself and catch up, always a mistake!
The first time I went on, I found a general weakness in muscle strength, poor balance and a long way to go to get the cardio- vascular system working properly. Also I was about 15 years "older" according to the machine.I spent about 35 minutes training and was exhausted at the end. The second day I spent 40 minutes and was even worse. The system gives a warning that you should take a break, well I don't have time to take breaks and so I kept on. The third day after 45 minutes I felt I was getting there, until I felt a lump in my right shoulder, a knotted muscle, that was very painful. This was followed by a pain down the right side of my back and pains in my pectoral muscle.
The words of my last personal trainer came back to me, "never exert yourself and vaty your program day to day" came to mind. Several days of mobilisation, massage and rest followed before I was able to resume the training. So was pushing past the limits rather than taking it slow and steady worth it? In the end I am over a week "behind" the others and will re start slowly
Never push yourself beyond limits that are set for a reason and work slowly and surely. Aim for a flexible supple body first, then go for strength and stamina.
Find out how you can exercise, within your limits, then go to www.backpainloss.com
Be well
Paul
Sunday, 3 August 2008
Welcome to Back Pain Loss
Hello and welcome to a Blog, Back Pain Loss, that will be looking first at ways to deal with back pain, but may grow, who knows.
As mentioned in my profile I have been interested in complementary medicene for a few years now. One subject which continued to surface whilst I was working with clients, was the problem of Back Pain. My experiances have ranged from massaging a young woman with lower back pain, in order that she could work comfortanly, to giving a Reflexology treatment to a lady in her late 70's which enabled her to work in her garden again.
However I would like to start with a report that approaches the problem of Back Pain from the veiwpoint of Nutrition, and is called, suprisingly,Back Pain and Nutrition.
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As mentioned in my profile I have been interested in complementary medicene for a few years now. One subject which continued to surface whilst I was working with clients, was the problem of Back Pain. My experiances have ranged from massaging a young woman with lower back pain, in order that she could work comfortanly, to giving a Reflexology treatment to a lady in her late 70's which enabled her to work in her garden again.
However I would like to start with a report that approaches the problem of Back Pain from the veiwpoint of Nutrition, and is called, suprisingly,Back Pain and Nutrition.
Feed Shark
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