If you are a chronic back pain sufferer who has been to doctors and chiropractors only to find they can't help, you may end up treating the pain at home yourself as a last resort.
The sad thing is that you best chance of success comes from what you do on your own. Your body will respond to what you do for it, not to what others do and certainly not to any pill. Treating yourself at home should really be your first choice.
If you search the web, you will find a lot of varied advice on what to do. Most of it involves exercise of one kind or another. The exercises are not difficult to do and can give you some relief. Extension exercise is first aid for an aching back.
But that doesn't really address the cause. Doctors can't cure your back pain because they don't teach you correct posture on your first visit. Until you have corrected your postural problems you cannot get long term relief because your spine will remain in an unnatural position.
The first step in treating your chronic back pain at home is to correct your posture. It's not that hard, but you must understand exactly what it is you are doing. Good posture is more than sitting and standing with you back straight.
Good posture is the maintenance of the lumbar lordosis. That is the inward curve of your lower spine. Your challenge in achieving correct posture is in keeping that curve as close to its natural state as possible.
Here's how to find your natural curve. Sit in a chair and slouch forward. You have just lost your lordosis and are at one extreme. Note what it feels like.
Then, over correct your slouch by extending you back and creating as big a curve as you can, without strain. That is excessive lordosis, the other extreme.
Your correct lordosis is in the middle of those two extremes, give or take a little bit. Your body will tell you.
Your job is not to sit and stand straight, it is to maintain the proper curvature of the lumbar spine. The longer you are able to maintain it, and it will take some thought and time, the quicker your back pain will subside. Even if you do nothing else.
One funny thing will happen if you are moving in the right direction. Your spine will feel rubbery and you may get a little muscle soreness. Just like working out with weights, the muscles that are supposed to be supporting your lordosis have been on vacation and are getting sore now that they are being used again.
Take it as a sign of progress and know that it will go away in a day or two. Most likely your back pain will as well.
Now let me show you how to undo years of damage in a matter of days.
Author: By Daniel Wade for more info email timyeskin@gmail.com
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