Non Surgical Back Pain Relief
Posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009
by Jack Phillips
http://www.alternative-natural-cures.net
Eighty percent of North Americans suffer some back pain, generally lower back pain at some time in their lives. And around 45% of those people experience recurrent back pain attacks.
If you are able to recuperate from back pain without surgical procedure, you are a lot better off. You may have unanticipated complications, anything from infection to nerve damage. Back surgery could go wrong leaving you with more pain than you began with. Plus most operations are not actually essential.
At least 20% of the people with back pain have spinal injuries involving the rupture of one or more discs, a gel filled shock absorber between the vertebrae, or bones of the spinal stack. Before thinking of a surgical procedure, you had better wait at the least 3 months after being diagnosed by a physician and use alternative remedies during that time unless there is an emergency for such surgery. Many times the disks will get better with the same type of nonmedical treatments that repair the back muscles.
SITTING:
The correct position for sitting down is just in front of your ischium bones of the pelvis. Those are the large bones that you are able to feel pressing against the chair right where your thighs end and your buttocks begin. At any rate you are able to feel them when you're sitting correctly. Lean slightly forward from the hips, then keeping your pelvis in place, move your upper back slightly back. That means do not slump forward, do not round or hunch your back and shoulders and keep your feet flat on the floor. You should become conscious of the curve in the small of the back.
The key to this back pain relieving, pain preventing sitting posture is to lift your breastbone as you're sitting. Pretend that a string is attached to the middle of your chest and is tugging your breastbone upwards. You want to lengthen the space between your belly button and your breastbone. This corrected sitting posture will feel awkward for a few days, however, because sitting incorrectly for so long can change the configuration and tone of your muscles.
Do this breastbone lifting exercise whenever you notice that you are leaning back or slumping over. The resulting posture not only will position your body correctly on your sit bones, but will also position the head correctly on the spine, putting the spine in a natural alignment that supports your musculature and gives the overworked muscles of the lower back some required relief. Plus relieve some of that back pain.
DRIVING:
A lot of people who drive for a livelihood experience bad back pain. This is because automobile seats seem to be contrived to hurt the back. Your knees are higher than your hips, throwing the weight of your body onto the sciatic nerve. Plus your leaning back with the head forward and the arms extended, which stresses your lower back and neck.
To minimize the damage, your car seat should be as flat as possible so that your knees and hips are at the same level, you would like to drive the same way you sit down.
If your car seat does not adjust automatically, you can build up the dip by sitting on a folded towel, a foam wedge, or a small pillow. Put a small pillow behind your lower back also.
Next, position the seat so that you aren't reaching for the steering wheel or leaning forward to grasp the wheel. The wheel should be close enough that your arms can hang naturally from the shoulders and your shoulders feel relaxed.
Just be sure your breastbone is about 10 inches from the center of the steering wheel. That way, you will diminish the possibility of accidental injury from your seatbelt or airbag if your in an accident.
STANDING:
For back pain free posture when standing, do the breastbone lifting exercise, then have a friend look at you from the side. If you are standing correctly that is, in a posture that can prevent or relieve back pain a vertical line could pass through your ear, the middle of your shoulder, the middle of your hip bone, and the outside of your ankle bone.
Correcting posture induced back pain is very logical and very simple, but people make it so difficult. The body is a perfect mechanism. All we have to do is get rid of whatever imbalances are in the way of the body performing the way it is supposed to and this exercise answers that.
LIFTING:
You in all probability know how not to lift; never bend over at the waist. And possibly you have also learned the normally prescribed method of correct lifting to prevent back pain. Squat with your knees apart, with the object between your knees and as close as possible to your body. Using your legs, stand up and lift, bringing the object closer to you body as you stand. Make sure to keep your back straight as well.
For those people who can not handle a squat, however, there's a different way. Put one knee on the floor. Then utilising your arms move the object onto the oposite thigh and with a firm grip on the object stand up.
For more information on back pain and other alternative remedies visit Jack's Alternative Natural Cures web site.
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