HOW TO HEAL BACK PAIN FOREVER
HOW TO HEAL BACK PAIN FOREVER
Dr. Steve Young
3 Back Pain Triggers You MUST Avoid If You Want To
Back Pain Trigger #1
Rounds Your Upper Back Giving You A Hunchback Of Notre Dame & Making It Darn Near Impossible To Treat Back Pain.
The first characteristic of an “S-curved spine” is the beginning of a hunchback, or rounding of the upper back. So why does it happen? In a word… SITTING.
The average American sits for a shocking 13 hours a day. And a 2017 study by the American Physical Therapy Association found that 54% of patients with back pain spent most of their workday sitting.
You see, no one ever teaches us how to sit properly. So most people sit in a way which pulls their spine out of alignment. As you sit over a computer, watching TV, or even while “just relaxing”…… Your shoulders and neck are pulled forward. As Newton said, every action has an equal and opposite Reaction.
So as your shoulders are pulled forward, your back has to round forming a “hunchback” to compensate. Over time, your upper back muscles get weaker and weaker, your rounded back gets worse and worse… and back pain is the inevitable result.
This process is called “Kyphosis”. And in just a second, I’ll show you exactly how to put your upper spine back into perfect alignment, healing kyphosis and providing instant relief from back pain.
Back Pain Trigger #2
Sends 60 Pounds Of Intense Pressure Onto Your Spinal Column Making Neck & Low Back Pain Even Worse…
As your upper back rounds, it has the nasty side effect of pushing your head forward. This creates something called “Ugly Forward Head Posture” and the consequences are devastating. When your head is pushed forward (this happens when you sit down, drive, work at a computer, watch TV and even when you look at your phone), it creates an additional 60 pounds of force going through your spinal column!
Just imagine a 60 pound dumbbell going through one of the discs in your spine. Is it any wonder 10 million Americans suffer from neck pain (as well as headaches and migraines caused by ugly forward head posture) every single year…
Here’s the kicker : This doesn’t just make your back pain even worse because of all the extra pressure. It also causes nasty neck pain which can lead to headaches that debilitate you and rendering you unable to work or spend time with your family.”
But there’s good news. There’s a process I’ll be teaching you in just a moment which releases this 60 pounds of pressure from your upper spine, aligning all of your spinal discs and eliminating pain over the long-term.
Back Pain Trigger #3
Dangerously Increases Your Risk Of Herniated Discs, Trapped Nerves & Sciatic Pain (Making Your Back Pain Even Worse)
Sometimes, SIT happens. We looked earlier at how excess sitting leads to kyphosis (rounding of the upper back), but what does sitting do to your lower spine?
This is where “anterior pelvic tilt” or “lordosis” comes in. Lordosis is when the curve at the base of your spine becomes overextended, and it puts you at dangerous risk of herniated discs, trapped nerves and sciatic pain.
So how does it happen? Well, as you sit down all day, your hip flexor muscles, also known as iliopsoas become extremely tight. Your iliopsoas muscles connect directly into your spine at disc L3 and L4. So when these muscles are overly tight, they pull, yank and twist on the L3 and L4 discs.
These discs are then pulled out of place on a very consistent basis leading to a huge overextension at your lower back.
The result? Extreme back pain which only gets worse over time, and which will require surgery if not attended to (lordosis is the cause of 700,000 vertebral fractures per year!)
And to make matters worse, this curve in your spine actually makes you look 20 pounds heavier than you really are! This is because the exaggerated curve pushes your belly forward making you look big and chubby.
While the main culprit are tight hip flexors, the problem is made exponentially worse by weak core muscles, weak glutes and tight hamstrings.
So what can you do about this? Well, in just a moment I’m going to show you a very unique and different method you can use to realign your hips, release your hip flexors and put your spine back into perfect alignment so you can eliminate pain.
