What Causes Back Pain in Daily Living?

Back pain is the most common cause of visits to your family doctor, because of its interference in our movements in daily activities. The reason for its high incidence is because you are creating too much dynamic movement in your spine, during these activities; with insufficient balanced, stationary movement that your spine truly needs.

The spine consists of 24 individual vertebral bones that lay vertically on top of each other, attached to the one above by a facet joint; that keep the vertebrae linked together for producing a vertical support. Between each vertebra are discs made from cartilage that act as cushions or shock absorbers between each vertebra. These protect the spine from any downward pressure, such as when lifting or carrying items.

The main purpose of the spine is to provide a vertical frame to our body, so that we can stay upright in a balance position, for all the daily living activities. Each of the individual vertebrae can make minor adjustments to the spine, for maintaining the upright position when moving our body.

Movement in the spine should not be compared to any other skeletal joint, because the vertebral joints are called gliding joints; which means they only make tiny gliding movements for keeping the spine upright and balanced. The vertebral joints are incapable of too much movement, or they force the tendons and ligaments to stretch, generating discomforts in your back.

There are no strong muscles surrounding your lower spine that support any movements and therefore you will feel strain and stresses on the tendons and ligaments that hold the spine together. If the severe movements continue on a repetitive basis, the tendons and ligaments will stretch and one of the discs may protrude between the vertebrae; leading to pressure on the nerves that will cause severe back pain.

“How will I know if that I am doing things wrong?” you may ask. The answer comes by understanding what muscles you need to be using. The strongest muscles in your body are your leg muscles, because we use them so much in productive mobility.

It is your powerful quadriceps and hamstring muscles in your legs that you should be using instead of bending your back. These large muscles will take enormous amounts of power, with the help of your arms, when lifting and bending. The pectoral muscles in your upper back are used for overhead lifting, but the muscles in your legs do all the work in your lower back.

My advice is to take up yoga, as this will teach you how to perform correct movements in your body and strengthen the parts that are giving you problems.

In turn, I will write about the movements in basic daily activities that will cause problems in your back. If you are not doing the movements correctly, then this may be causing your discomfort.

The body has so many joints to move in purposeful activity for safety and comfort. It is often difficult to know whether you are performing these activities correctly. It may seem elementary to explain the movements, but the slight physical changes that you can make, can actually make a dramatic difference to the comfort of your back.

The author is a qualified Occupational Therapist who also has an M.Sc in Health Promotion. She has in Internet Company called Active Living Solutions Ltd that sells products in Health Promotion for assisting customers with joint pains. These are ergonomic products that Protect Joints, Preserve Energy & Promote Safety in daily living. Gail’s main sales are ergonomic chairs for comfort & safety in prolonged sitting. Gail specializes in working with customers, who are very small, or severely obese, or with specific needs. No problem is impossible with her skills.

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Living With Arthritic Pain – Not Anymore!

Physical pain in the muscles such as fibromyalgia or pain in the spine or joints caused by arthritis, scoliosis, inflammation or swelling is debilitating, restrictive and generally impacts just about every aspect of every moment of daily life for those that suffer. Continuous compensation of movement is required to achieve the most basic of life’s daily requirements. Seldom, are any real or lasting benefits experienced from taking the prescribed drugs and medication. Subsequently, all mental, emotional, physical and spiritual components are also systematically challenged, tortured and compromised.

The relentless assault on the mind, body and spirit drives a person to desperation. Their emotions are aggravated and stretched to the limit until finally they snap, venting their anguish and frustrations on their family because “they don’t understand what they are feeling.” Disrupted sleep patterns drain yet more energy, and feelings of hopelessness and despondency creep in until they become depressed and disillusioned with life. Does this sound familiar?

Grace, aged 84 had extreme arthritic pain for 9 years – read how her life has improved dramatically: When I first met Adrian I was suffering with arthritis in my shoulders, right knee, left ankle and thumbs. The pain was so bad that I couldn’t lift my arms any higher than my shoulders. My thumbs were painful gripping things. My right knee was so swollen it was double the size of the other one and I was unable to kneel down on it, and my left ankle was very swollen and painful.

After just three sessions, I can now lift my arms straight up above my head and wave them around. The swelling in my right knee has gone back to normal and I can kneel on it without pain. My left ankle has no pain and does not swell anymore and my thumbs are not painful either – I feel a whole lot better than I used to! All this was achieved without any drugs or medication.

How many times has it been said that arthritis is “...just one of those things you get as you get older.” “That pain can only be marginal, and that you’ll have to take pain killers or have hours of manipulation or wear a copper bracelet etc. etc.?”

It’s been said a lot and to be honest they all work – to a degree! The trouble is that this constant barrage of negative programming in the papers and on the news creates the belief that there just can’t be any help or resolution to this pain. Get ready to be enlightened, there is another way, a way to significantly reduce the pain, sometimes down to NO pain at all.

Pain is not meant to be managed or masked but acknowledged and dealt with. Pain is simply the body’s natural silent communication system, alerting the conscious mind that something is wrong or out of balance. The body is a complex organism of vibrating energetic frequencies operating and responding in harmony with your thoughts and experiences. Although complex, the body functions like a super-computer, being either switched on or off, strong or weak to any given issue.

Thoughts, emotions and personal experiences make subtle changes to these energetic vibrations at a quantum level, far beyond the conscious or even subconscious levels of the mind.

Peggy, aged 82 had arthritic pain for 34 years in her right hip, knee and foot – read what she had to say: “Having had treatment from Adrian for my arthritic pain, it has made my life so much better for me. I no longer have any pain in my right leg and am walking faster than ever. I wish I had found him before. No one needs to put up with pain so get in touch if you are suffering, Adrian can help you.”
In the Far East pain is known as a symptom of deeper issues. For 1,000’s of years its energetic healers have known that pain is caused by the disrupted flow of energy in the body causing negative physical conditions that manifest as pain. Some area or aspect of life is out of balance and needs to be brought back into balance.

By identifying the core issue, the root cause of the problem and eliminating it by stimulating the body’s own natural energies and healing systems (resetting the switches), it makes it possible to release the physical symptom. In addition to this relief, other emotional issues, fears, phobias and limitations are also dealt with and all this without drugs or medication, tea’s or tinctures, electrical stimulation or physical manipulation.

Richard, had pain from scoliosis in the spine and hip for over 20 years – read what he had to say: A specialist diagnosed me with having scoliosis of the spine following an MRI scan, which I’ve had now for at least 20 years. The scoliosis causes me to lean over to the left where my weight is centered over my left leg, which meant that my right hip was at least an inch higher than my left one. Consequently, my left leg was bigger and stronger than my right.

Pain in my left hip and lower back varies from 6-10, where 10 is the worst pain, and then continues down my left leg to my ankle. The pain is constant and only goes to a 6 when taking pain killers but quickly returns to a 10 when they wear off. I bought an orthopedic bed hoping for some relief but nothing changed and have since come to the conclusion that I have to live with the pain.

Both my elbows were very painful, at least 10 out of 10 on the pain threshold which again eased while taking pain killers until they wore off. Doing daily heavy manual work always intensified the level of pain.

I still cannot believe what Adrian has been able to do for me. Within 5 minutes the pain in my left elbow was gone and drastically reduced in my right elbow. I couldn’t believe it – how was this possible? When the session finished the pain in my hip and left leg was also reduced.

During the next couple of sessions we cleared many life issues quickly and easily. I could gradually feel my back centering and felt more balanced. I also noticed that my right hip was almost level with my left one. I developed pain in both my feet as my body adjusted but again, I was amazed at how quickly Adrian cleared the pain!

I am now free of all pain; even my right hand that was broken and painful trying to shake hands is working perfectly – even though I didn’t mention it! I feel calmer, lighter and more at ease and at peace with myself – I now see things differently.

The body vibrates at different frequencies and all scientists universally agree that everything is made from this energy. It may be hard to believe that the body vibrates at these different frequencies, simply because we cannot see or feel them. But does that mean it’s not possible? Remember once when scientists said that man couldn’t fly, until the Wright brothers proved otherwise or when Roger Bannister said that he would run a mile in under four minutes, everyone believed he was mad until he proved otherwise.

Everything that goes against the current universal belief system is first challenged and ridiculed, then tried and tested and finally accepted. There are other ways, other ways to significantly reduce and eliminate pain...

By all means be sceptical... but don’t be left in pain!

I have been studying the field of alternative therapy for over 30 years! Starting in Hypnotherapy many years ago I’ve had great success helping people with many aspects of their lives.

In the past 10 years I’ve been studying the body’s energy systems and self-healing abilities - leading to natural pain relief!

I specialise in eliminating Arthritic Pain - naturally! For more in depth information visit his website www.frequenthealing.com

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