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Lower Back Muscle Pain Can Be Cured Naturally

Did you know that pain in your lower back is almost always caused by muscles.  Why is this?

Well, muscles move the bones, joints and disks in your spine.  Muscles are the prime movers of your body!  You can only move because you have muscles.

Yay, muscles!!  🙂

On the other hand, when your muscles get out of balance–too strong on one side of your body and too weak on the other then we don’t say, “Yay, muscles!”

We say, “Ouch!”

Dang muscles.  🙁

Well, it’s not their fault.  They wouldn’t be unhappy and complaining if you did everything perfectly in all of your movements.

But you don’t.  🙁

But you can change. 🙂  Here’s how:

You can add movements that balance your low back muscles better.  You can Continue reading Lower Back Muscle Pain Can Be Cured Naturally

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Can Your Leg Length Can Cause Lower Back Pain?

Do legs cause low back pain?

Legs do cause low back pain when one leg is shorter than the other.  And about 1 out of 10 of us has a difference in leg length.

This is not the only cause but it is a commonly overlooked cause.

I had an elderly client named Bob.  He had lower back pain from the time he was a very young man.  He used to get his children to walk on his back to get the muscle spasms to go away.

Bob had surgery later in life.  That helped some but his leg length difference was so great that, in the xrays, it could be seen that the fusing hardware had broken.

His doctors never looked at his legs as a possible cause of Continue reading Can Your Leg Length Can Cause Lower Back Pain?

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Massage Helps Bodies Heal From Lower Back Pain

Laurie had low back pain.  She only came to see me (I’m a neuromuscular massage therapist) because her neighbor insisted.  She was already scheduled for lower back surgery.

The thing about surgery is it creates permanent changes.

The thing about therapeutic massage is it assists the body in healing.  It is all-natural.  No weeks of healing from incisions.

Today lower back surgeries are done much less frequently than they used to be.  The reason for this is Continue reading Massage Helps Bodies Heal From Lower Back Pain

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