Natural posture.
Filed in Posture, March 20, 2009, 9:19 pmA side view of the human body shows that there is a small inward curve in the neck just above the shoulder girdle. Can you guess what this inward curve is called? It’s a word you certainly have heard enough in this book. Yes, it’s called a lordosis. When we discussed the back, we [...]
The cervical spine.
Filed in Spine, March 19, 2009, 8:40 pmThe technical name for the series of vertebrae in the neck is the cervical spine. As you will recall from Chapter 2, the spine consists of 33 bones called vertebrae. The top seven are the cervical vertebrae. These rest upon one another like a stack of spools. Each vertebra has a solid part in [...]
Spinal pain
Filed in Spine, March 18, 2009, 6:54 pmSpinal pain of postural origin would not occur if this basic education were given to individuals at an early age. Ask any 12-year-old child if he or she has been shown at school how to stand correctly or how to sit correctly. Chances are that the child will tell you that he or she has [...]
Lower back pain in the eldery
Filed in Back, March 17, 2009, 5:58 pmIt is now known that acute lower back pain tends to occur less frequently in each person once we pass the age of 55. So if you are over 55 (or even a little younger), you may notice that you experience a more persistent ache in the lower back than you previously had but that [...]
If you are an athlete
Filed in Back, March 16, 2009, 3:56 pmOften, the true cause of pain in athletes is that they adopt a slouched position after they have, in their athletic endeavor, thoroughly exercised their joints. After exertion, we usually sit down and relax: because we are tired, we almost immediately adopt the relaxed sitting posture. In other words, after vigorously exercising, we collapse “in [...]
Lower back pain in pregnancy
Filed in Back, March 15, 2009, 3:30 pmBoth during and after pregnancy, women are subjected to altered mechanical stresses that affect the lower back and frequently result in lower back problems. As the new infant develops in the mother’s womb, two simple changes occur that influence the woman’s posture.
First, there is the gradually increasing bulk and weight of pregnancy.
Treatment bu repex
Filed in Back, March 14, 2009, 2:30 pmAlthough the system of self-treatment that I have developed is effective for a very high percentage of patients, the success of the method is sometimes limited because of various factors that may prevent the patient from performing the required movements.
Fatigue is probably the limiting factor that patients encounter most commonly.
Getting up from the sitting position
Filed in Exercises, March 13, 2009, 12:03 pmWhen getting up from the sitting position, try to maintain the lordosis: move to the front of the seat (or carefully rotate to the exit edge of a seat in a car), stand up by straightening the legs, and avoid bending forward at the waist.
If you have a car, drive it as little as possible. [...]
Immediately begin the self-treatment exercises
Filed in Exercises, March 12, 2009, 10:40 amThe simple rule is that if bending forward has been the cause of overstretching, bending backward should rectify this problem and reduce any resultant distortion in the spinal discs. You must restore the lordosis slowly and with caution, never quickly or with jerky movements. You must allow some time for the distorted joint to regain [...]
If you have lower back pain
Filed in Answers and questions, March 11, 2009, 9:02 amRegardless of what you are doing or where you are, at the first sign of recurrence of lower back pain you must take action. That is, you must immediately start the exercises that previously led to recovery, and you must follow the instructions given to relieve acute pain. You must at once begin Exercise 4, [...]
