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You Don’t Have to be Perfect to be Free of Back Pain
Would you have back pain if every part of your body were perfect? The answer has to be… No, it’s pretty safe to say you wouldn’t have any pain if your body were perfectly aligned, perfectly balanced and in a perfect state of being. But here’s the thing—you don’t have to be perfect to be pain-free. In fact, you can have serious conditions like Spinal Stenosis and even a Herniated disc and still have no pain—regardless of the type of job you have or how you reckon the condition developed or even the unique situation that you find yourself in today.Don’t believe it? The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine just reported it.They published a study in which researchers performed an MRI on 98 people who had no back pain. And the researchers found that nearly two thirds of them had some kind of abnormal disk condition. The researchers conclude: “Many people without back pain have disk bulges or protrusions… Given the high prevalence of these findings and of back pain, the discovery by MRI of bulges or protrusions in people with low back pain may frequently be coincidental.”That’s right. They called having a bulging or protruded disc and having back pain a coincidence. Proof positive that you can have a condition and not have pain. Indeed, there are millions of people with existing back problems right now who do not even know that they have the condition and surly don’t have any pain at all. How do you become one of those people? Living with the condition and living pain free.Let me say something that may be uncomfortable for you to hear. There is a excellent chance your condition will never go away. That may sound scary, but it is possible. Herniated disks don’t typically un-bulge themselves and then heal them self to the way they were when you were 15. Spinal Stenosis doesn’t come and go.And yet, you can still live without pain. In fact, you probably already have.If you have gone just one minute of one day since your last flare-up without pain, you’ve proved you can have your condition without pain. How can this be? If the condition didn’t go away, what changes? It all has to do with the alignment of your body, the position of your pelvis, the curvature of your spine and the stability of your body as a whole as you go through your day.Now, there are a couple of ways to try to relieve that irritation permanently. Sure, you could have surgery. That’s one option to treat your pain. But most surgeries fail within 3 to 5 years. Why? Because they don’t address the reason why the condition became symptomatic in the first place. In other words they don’t fix what’s really causing your condition to develop–they just remove the irritant that is causing the pain. So what does? I know you reckon you’ve tried everything—chiropractors, physical therapy, cortisone shots, acupuncture, massage, anti-Inflammatories and probably 20 others. But question yourself one question. Answer it truthfully.Has anyone ever looked at your body as a whole and told you specifically what your postural dysfunctions are and what specifically is causing your body to look like it does? Furthermore has anyone spelled out for you why your pelvis is the way it is? Did they tell you specifically which muscles are tight, which muscles are weak and then give you a very specific and very targeted corrective program to achieve postural balance and stability, which is the single more vital thing you can do to alleviate your pain and gain control of your life?Stability is Everything when looking for pain reliefThe only way to stop the irritation is to bring your body back to a more neutral, more balanced and more stable state. When you do that, everything works better—your back, your hips, your shoulders, your SI joint, everything. Once your body is balanced and stable you can do all the things you like to do and do them with the confidence that you are safe, strong and protected against further injury.As the NEJM proved, you don’t have to be perfect to eliminate pain. You just need to work toward making a more balanced and neutral state for your body. When you work toward pelvic stability, you help your spine maintain a neutral position. Then you can use your body as it was intended to be used. That’s how you can have the condition and not have pain. You most likely won’t need surgery. You won’t wake up every morning stiff. You can return to your life and do all you want to do. Why is Muscle Balance Therapy so different?First, you should know that there is no single set of exercises that can specifically help a Herniated disk or Spinal Stenosis or any condition for that matter. So I urge you not to search the Internet for back pain exercises and just do any ancient stretch or exercise without knowing the underlying reason you are doing it for.You must also know that the Corrective Exercise Program you will get form Muscle Balance Therapy is not based on your diagnosis but rather on corroborating evidence from both physical and visual assessments that are used to ensure you are doing the right and safest program possible for you and your current condition. Muscle Balance Therapy is based on the biomechanical principle—the more balanced and stable your body is the better your body will work and the less pain you will be in. So before we start we must first know which muscles are out of balance, meaning we need to know specifically which muscles are tight and which are weak. Once we know those, then we can make a very specific and targeted stretch and exercise program to restore balance. And again that only comes from doing the specific assessments…Let me just review this point one more time, there is no such thing as a single exercise for and medical diagnosed form of back pain like a herniated disc or Spinal Stenosis. So when you question me will, I just had and MRI and was just diagnosed with 4 Herniated Discs, Degenerative Disc Disease all levels, Spinal Stenosis and oh I was born with Scoliosis and 17 years ago I was in a major auto accident, will your system work for me the answer is will always be yes…In fact, I tell everyone it fantastic to know your specific diagnosis but now forget about it, you can not change the facts and you can not change the past. Rather, focus your energy on the things you know you can change and as you restore balance you will restore function.That brings us to the third unique aspect of Muscle Balances Therapy and that is that we have to perform what we call the Unbalanced Workout. This means that you will not benefit from just blindly strengthening or stretching all your core muscles. That is not the way to do it.The reason is that you could be stretching or strengthening muscle groups that do not need to be stretched or strengthened and you can make your condition worse. Here is the secret: The difference between having pain and not having pain is in millimeters of movement and the more specific the physical approach the quicker and safer the results will be.The fourth difference is not in our exercises, because there are no new exercises in the world. Rather, it’s the confidence you get knowing that the exercises that you are doing are working the muscles in the best way possible for you and your situation.The Secret Everyone understands that one approach can not be the answer to every possible circumstance, and we know that, so here is the secret, as you work with Muscle Balance Therapy and address root cause issues like physical balance and postural stability, please know that we encourage you to seek out those same modalities that failed you before, they all have value in the process of healing but not until you address the vital stuff first. You know the list of things that you have tried; I contend that this time Massage, Inversion, Supplements, Trigger Point Therapy, Heating Pads to name a few will all work to speed your healing and help you achieve optimal health for the rest of your life.Is Muscle Balance Therapy perfect? It’s close. Does everyone get 100% pain relief? Most do.I can say with all honesty that there is 100% chance you will improve from your current state. We have a list of 50 ways that your body and life will benefit and 100% pain relief is by all measures a bonus. So it boils down to this: Would you be pleased with 80%, 60%, even 50% reduction in pain yet able to do all the things you like to do? Would that improve your quality of life?I have dedicated the last 15 years of my life and endured both personal and professional sacrifice to make a safe, systematic approach to addressing all forms of back pain that can be used by young and ancient alike. And I have never been closer then I am right now with the concept of Muscle Balance Therapy to be able to say that you have just learned one of the best lessons anyone with back pain can hear. I’m not promising miracles, but I do promise a complete and thorough as well as safe approach to managing, treating and even eliminating your pain.I have seen incredible results again and again for those people that place in the effort and believe in them self knowing that they are doing the right thing. Let me leave you with this last thought and one that I believe holds the most power. The human body is intrinsically designed to heal its self, we as individuals just need to give our bodies what is needed and remove what is not needed, Muscle Balance Therapy puts that power to heal yourself back in your control. If I could barrow a line from my excellent friend Bob Proctor, the cure to ignorance is knowledge and the answer to dread, worry and doubt is study, understanding and faith. Faith builds enthusiasm and enthusiasm accelerates healing. How excellent it that!So if you don’t believe me that you can have your condition and not have pain let me teach you what is possible. If you worry and are filled with doubt I urge you to study what is already available to you and the more you know the better off you will become.That is right for all things and will be right till the end of time.Source1. Jensen, M.C., et. al. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in People without Back Pain. N Engl J Med 1994; 331:69-732. Bob Proctor, The Winners Image, ©1995 -2008
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Is it Safe to Exercise After My Back Surgery?
Many people want to, but have never been given any specific instructions or guidelines to follow regarding what exercises to do after surgery. Some surgeons believe the surgery itself helps right the problem. Most often than not, the problem was not addressed by the surgery. The surgery only addresses either a sign or symptom caused by the right problem. Most disc injuries and arthritic conditions develop and progress over a long period of time. Typically, if there is a traumatic event, such as a fall, a motor vehicle accident or job related injury, the body will heal itself over an unspecified period of time. On rare occasions, a traumatic back injury will require immediate surgery. There are always additional conditions that impact the health of the spine. Those conditions include the following, but are not exhaustive: * lower extremity muscle imbalances * weak abdominal and lower back muscles* restricted spinal range of motion* leg length discrepancy* gait asymmetry* improper biomechanics that are necessary for a particular job or sport* other physical limitations that effect the hip, knee, ankle, foot, and/or upper backAddressing these physical limitations, especially after surgery, are paramount to the success of the surgery. For example, if you undergo a lumbar fusion in which two vertebrae are fused together, the vertebrae above and below tend to be the targets of future potential injury. If the above conditions are not addressed, you run the risk of further injury and possible surgeries. Simple, simple to perform exercises can help eliminate those factors which can lead to further injury. The success of the surgery, in my opinion, is directly related to what happens after the surgery. More importantly, addressing the physical limitations prior to surgery may even eliminate the need for surgery, and if not, it will provide a excellent foundation for recovery following the surgery. What can I do?The first thing you need to do it question your surgeon, to give you a list of instructions, of the motions that you can and can not do and make sure that they indicate if they are temporally or are they for ever. For example If you have had a Total Hip Replacement there are motions, that you can never do and only your surgeon can tell you what they are based on the type of procedure and the hardware that they used.Where do I Start?Sounds like a simple question but there is are some considerations, Pain level, tolerance to activity, is the surgical site stable…the list of considerations can go on and on so lets imagine we get past all of the physical limitations and now we have to start were we are and how we are.What is the state of your physical being, to start you need to identify imbalances in your physical being, you must first be assessed or assess your self, looking for muscle imbalances and postural dysfunctions and then a well plotted corrective exercise program can be established.Why look for Postural Dysfunction after surgery?Postural dysfunctions, take into account the position of your pelvis and the curvature of your spine. The distress is, if your pelvis is not in the most neutral position you spine will have abnormal curvature and that abnormal curvature is what cause excessive ware and tear on the muscles, joints, ligaments and yes it can also cause the discs to start to bulge.The postural dysfunctions you have are also a factor in your recovery after surgery, please know that just because the bulging or herniation part of the disc was removed that does not mean the forces that cause the disc to herniated in the first place have been eliminated, that is not right.If you do not address your postural dysfunctions those same forces will start working on other discs in your back and the process will start all over again. That is why back surgeries have such a high failure rate after 5 years.The surgery very well many have eliminated the irritation that was on the nerve but it sure did not address the root cause of the problem. Please be sure that all measures are taken that the after the surgery your postsurgical pain is addressed as well as your postural dysfunctions.Is it Safe to do Exercises?Please know that the term “back pain exercise” is a misnomer, let me clarify, you would not want to exercise your back pain would you? NO, of course not, then you must have mean what exercises should you do to strengthen my back, well guess what that may not be what you need to do to get pain either.You see regardless of your condition and with in the limitations of your surgery your main focus need to be on getting your body back to a more neutral, more balanced and more stable state in order to insure that the surgery is a success.The best way to insure that is accomplished is to address your muscle imbalances and only do very specific stretches and exercises that are appropriate for you and your current condition and the only way to know what it is that you need to be doing is to assess your body as a whole looking at your posture What if my Therapist will not Address my Muscle Imbalances?If your therapist will not address your muscle imbalances then you need to do it on your own. The muscle balance therapy™ technique is widely becoming the standard as the best self care system available and should be considered if you have not had your posture assessed…You do not want to end up with yet another failed back surgery, simply because no one took the time to look at your body as a whole and look for the right root cause. Now that you have read this you have no excuse but to address it your self if no one else has helped you do it…
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You Don’t Have to be Perfect to be Free of Back Pain
Would you have back pain if every part of your body were perfect? The answer has to be… No, it’s pretty safe to say you wouldn’t have any pain if your body were perfectly aligned, perfectly balanced and in a perfect state of being. But here’s the thing—you don’t have to be perfect to be pain-free. In fact, you can have serious conditions like Spinal Stenosis and even a Herniated disc and still have no pain—regardless of the type of job you have or how you reckon the condition developed or even the unique situation that you find yourself in today.Don’t believe it? The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine just reported it.They published a study in which researchers performed an MRI on 98 people who had no back pain. And the researchers found that nearly two thirds of them had some kind of abnormal disk condition. The researchers conclude: “Many people without back pain have disk bulges or protrusions… Given the high prevalence of these findings and of back pain, the discovery by MRI of bulges or protrusions in people with low back pain may frequently be coincidental.”That’s right. They called having a bulging or protruded disc and having back pain a coincidence. Proof positive that you can have a condition and not have pain. Indeed, there are millions of people with existing back problems right now who do not even know that they have the condition and surly don’t have any pain at all. How do you become one of those people? Living with the condition and living pain free.Let me say something that may be uncomfortable for you to hear. There is a excellent chance your condition will never go away. That may sound scary, but it is possible. Herniated disks don’t typically un-bulge themselves and then heal them self to the way they were when you were 15. Spinal Stenosis doesn’t come and go.And yet, you can still live without pain. In fact, you probably already have.If you have gone just one minute of one day since your last flare-up without pain, you’ve proved you can have your condition without pain. How can this be? If the condition didn’t go away, what changes? It all has to do with the alignment of your body, the position of your pelvis, the curvature of your spine and the stability of your body as a whole as you go through your day.Now, there are a couple of ways to try to relieve that irritation permanently. Sure, you could have surgery. That’s one option to treat your pain. But most surgeries fail within 3 to 5 years. Why? Because they don’t address the reason why the condition became symptomatic in the first place. In other words they don’t fix what’s really causing your condition to develop–they just remove the irritant that is causing the pain. So what does? I know you reckon you’ve tried everything—chiropractors, physical therapy, cortisone shots, acupuncture, massage, anti-Inflammatories and probably 20 others. But question yourself one question. Answer it truthfully.Has anyone ever looked at your body as a whole and told you specifically what your postural dysfunctions are and what specifically is causing your body to look like it does? Furthermore has anyone spelled out for you why your pelvis is the way it is? Did they tell you specifically which muscles are tight, which muscles are weak and then give you a very specific and very targeted corrective program to achieve postural balance and stability, which is the single more vital thing you can do to alleviate your pain and gain control of your life?Stability is Everything when looking for pain reliefThe only way to stop the irritation is to bring your body back to a more neutral, more balanced and more stable state. When you do that, everything works better—your back, your hips, your shoulders, your SI joint, everything. Once your body is balanced and stable you can do all the things you like to do and do them with the confidence that you are safe, strong and protected against further injury.As the NEJM proved, you don’t have to be perfect to eliminate pain. You just need to work toward making a more balanced and neutral state for your body. When you work toward pelvic stability, you help your spine maintain a neutral position. Then you can use your body as it was intended to be used. That’s how you can have the condition and not have pain. You most likely won’t need surgery. You won’t wake up every morning stiff. You can return to your life and do all you want to do. Why is Muscle Balance Therapy so different?First, you should know that there is no single set of exercises that can specifically help a Herniated disk or Spinal Stenosis or any condition for that matter. So I urge you not to search the Internet for back pain exercises and just do any ancient stretch or exercise without knowing the underlying reason you are doing it for.You must also know that the Corrective Exercise Program you will get form Muscle Balance Therapy is not based on your diagnosis but rather on corroborating evidence from both physical and visual assessments that are used to ensure you are doing the right and safest program possible for you and your current condition. Muscle Balance Therapy is based on the biomechanical principle—the more balanced and stable your body is the better your body will work and the less pain you will be in. So before we start we must first know which muscles are out of balance, meaning we need to know specifically which muscles are tight and which are weak. Once we know those, then we can make a very specific and targeted stretch and exercise program to restore balance. And again that only comes from doing the specific assessments…Let me just review this point one more time, there is no such thing as a single exercise for and medical diagnosed form of back pain like a herniated disc or Spinal Stenosis. So when you question me will, I just had and MRI and was just diagnosed with 4 Herniated Discs, Degenerative Disc Disease all levels, Spinal Stenosis and oh I was born with Scoliosis and 17 years ago I was in a major auto accident, will your system work for me the answer is will always be yes…In fact, I tell everyone it fantastic to know your specific diagnosis but now forget about it, you can not change the facts and you can not change the past. Rather, focus your energy on the things you know you can change and as you restore balance you will restore function.That brings us to the third unique aspect of Muscle Balances Therapy and that is that we have to perform what we call the Unbalanced Workout. This means that you will not benefit from just blindly strengthening or stretching all your core muscles. That is not the way to do it.The reason is that you could be stretching or strengthening muscle groups that do not need to be stretched or strengthened and you can make your condition worse. Here is the secret: The difference between having pain and not having pain is in millimeters of movement and the more specific the physical approach the quicker and safer the results will be.The fourth difference is not in our exercises, because there are no new exercises in the world. Rather, it’s the confidence you get knowing that the exercises that you are doing are working the muscles in the best way possible for you and your situation.The Secret Everyone understands that one approach can not be the answer to every possible circumstance, and we know that, so here is the secret, as you work with Muscle Balance Therapy and address root cause issues like physical balance and postural stability, please know that we encourage you to seek out those same modalities that failed you before, they all have value in the process of healing but not until you address the vital stuff first. You know the list of things that you have tried; I contend that this time Massage, Inversion, Supplements, Trigger Point Therapy, Heating Pads to name a few will all work to speed your healing and help you achieve optimal health for the rest of your life.Is Muscle Balance Therapy perfect? It’s close. Does everyone get 100% pain relief? Most do.I can say with all honesty that there is 100% chance you will improve from your current state. We have a list of 50 ways that your body and life will benefit and 100% pain relief is by all measures a bonus. So it boils down to this: Would you be pleased with 80%, 60%, even 50% reduction in pain yet able to do all the things you like to do? Would that improve your quality of life?I have dedicated the last 15 years of my life and endured both personal and professional sacrifice to make a safe, systematic approach to addressing all forms of back pain that can be used by young and ancient alike. And I have never been closer then I am right now with the concept of Muscle Balance Therapy to be able to say that you have just learned one of the best lessons anyone with back pain can hear. I’m not promising miracles, but I do promise a complete and thorough as well as safe approach to managing, treating and even eliminating your pain.I have seen incredible results again and again for those people that place in the effort and believe in them self knowing that they are doing the right thing. Let me leave you with this last thought and one that I believe holds the most power. The human body is intrinsically designed to heal its self, we as individuals just need to give our bodies what is needed and remove what is not needed, Muscle Balance Therapy puts that power to heal yourself back in your control. If I could barrow a line from my excellent friend Bob Proctor, the cure to ignorance is knowledge and the answer to dread, worry and doubt is study, understanding and faith. Faith builds enthusiasm and enthusiasm accelerates healing. How excellent it that!So if you don’t believe me that you can have your condition and not have pain let me teach you what is possible. If you worry and are filled with doubt I urge you to study what is already available to you and the more you know the better off you will become.That is right for all things and will be right till the end of time.Source1. Jensen, M.C., et. al. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in People without Back Pain. N Engl J Med 1994; 331:69-732. Bob Proctor, The Winners Image, ©1995 -2008
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