For anyone starting a repair and strengthening program for their back pain, I offer the same advice – be gentle with them, listen to your body and don’t overdo it. Correct goal setting and a weekly timetable will help you to stay on track with such a demanding and busy life. There are…
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Back Pain Treatment – A Balanced Approach is Necessary
Back Pain & Weight Loss
Regarding weight loss, diets often work in the short term, but it is not surprising that people struggle to keep the weight off. This is due to a few reasons. One of these is that during your dieting you would have had to have used your willpower to eat in a different manner to the…
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Back Pain Is Challenging
Back pain is extremely challenging and no one can truly understand your own unique situation and pain and this is why the best way to overcome it is to educate yourself as much as possible to direct your own treatment. Back pain for fit and active people that become inactive is common as muscle imbalances…
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Studies on Disc Herniations, Degenerative Disc Disease and Collapsed Discs
A recent question from a reader of my blog “I have been told I have degenerative disk disease, and that L4 and L5 are collapsed and need to be fused together. Can this be cured for real without surgery and can I become pain free?” Now there are a lot of medical studies both recent…
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A Treatment Has Been Used By Back Pain Sufferers for Many years
There is a treatment for back pain that has been used for over 100 years to successfully treat Chronic Back Pain. It was proven in 2008 in a large scale medical study to be one of the best (if not THE best) long term back pain treatments. This is an important distinction as many treatments…
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The Thing About Back Pain That No One Tells You
In my last post I described how I went into chronic and very painful upper back pain, induced by pulling my shoulders back to hold good ‘posture’. It was at this point I realized that if something I did made my back pain worse, then maybe the cause of my back pain was not a…
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The Posture Myth – How A Good Posture Made My Back Pain Worse
After having no long term relief or success with structural manipulation of my spine, I briefly went into a period of feeling helpless with my back pain. I lost hope and thought there was nothing I could do. I then decided to try visiting a physiotherapist after a minor fall from a motorbike sent my…
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My Journey for Back Pain Treatment Begins
I persisted with massage for months, which used to help most of the time. However at one stage my back seemed to spasm and lock into a painful position. I then decided to try a visit to a chiropractor as that was what my father had always done for his back pain. I found my…
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How my Chronic Back Pain Started
I remember first experiencing back pain at university when I played football. Often I would end up sore in certain muscles after a game, but occasionally the sore spot would be in my lower back. It never stayed around for long enough to cause me any concern though until I graduated and started sitting down…
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2 years I had chronic back pain so bad it was ruining my life
Hi this is my blog about my own story of overcoming back pain. About how 18 months ago chronic lower back pain was running my life and people were telling me I would “have to live with it”. Everything I read seemed to indicate there was no treatment to fix back pain for good. However…
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