The Two Best Ways To Stop Back Pain

Back pain affects over 80% of adults at some stage, a frightening statistic you must agree. However, knowing this does not make you back pain ease or settle.

Even though the majority of you reading this will have back pain now or at some stage soon, most of you do not know simple ways to remove it. This is my job – to teach you only the simplest and best ways to stop back pain.

You may have been told that back pain comes from 4 main sources:

1. Muscle Tension – when muscles tighten they cause pain. This is probably the biggest cause of back pain.

2. Muscle Weakness – if some muscles do not have the strength to support your back, other muscles will tighten and cause back pain.

3. Inflammation – if joints tighten then they may swell, or if you have had falls or knocks then inflammation occurs.

4. Joint Disruption – if your spinal or pelvic joints do not move freely, then back pain will occur quickly. So although these are the mechanisms that create back pain, you need to know a little more…n

Back pain itself comes from the tight muscles. The tight muscles create over 90% of your back pain, the remainder comes from inflammation. You may therefore think that to stop back pain you need to ease the muscle tension.

You are only partially correct.

Stretching a tight muscle will not necessarily reduce the tension enough to stop back pain. Sometimes it will even make the pain worse.

The reason the muscles tighten is that they are protecting the joints in the area. The protection occurs as the joints fail to move correctly. This is why muscle tension occurs.

So to reduce the muscle tension, and of course your back pain, you must release the muscle tightness and correct the joint.

Fail to correct the joint and the muscle tension will return – now or sometime very soon. The problem is it comes back worse most times. This is the most common reason back pain becomes chronic – failing to address all the causes of back pain.

nDoes this mean you need to see a practitioner – no! You can actually ease pressure from your joints your self… effectively, safely and painlessly. Add in some simple ways to reduce muscle tension quickly – of all the offending muscles – and back pain will ease quickly.

Then all you need to do is make sure it doesn’t come back with more simple and easy techniques that remove all the causes and prevent back pain from returning.

So how can you reduce the joint pressure, simple!

If you press gently but firmly on the joint that is sore. You will notice if you press in some directions the pain feels a little worse – like a bruise. If you pres in this direction while you breathe in and out, your body will actually correct the joint and ease the tension around it.

This is only a temporary fix for your back pain, you still need to rebalance your pelvis – the most common cause of back pain, strengthen weak muscles, reduce muscle tension and correct all the joints not working correctly.

As for the muscle tension, using Acupressure you can rapidly target tight muscles and reduce their tension. Stretching although good can only target a few muscles and not necessarily the small muscles around the joint that cause most of your back pain.

nA simple Acupressure point to reduce muscle tension is on the back of your knee. Just come in from the outside of your knee where your hamstring tendon is, the depression there is an Acupressure point for muscular tension. Simply hold this point on both knees at once and rest your hands there for at least 5 minutes. The longer you hold the point the more the tension will reduce.

You do not need to rub or press hard – just like jumper cabling a battery – you are just making a connection from one point to the next.

And it is as simple as that…n

nYou can stop your back pain simply if you apply simple techniques as soon as possible. This saves you time and money on seeking help and best of all it limits the time you suffer from back pain.