What if you knew that in 2005 the U.
S.
spent $86 billion on neck and back pain? What if you also knew that expenses increased 65% from 1997 to 2005 and yet the same surveyed patients got 4% worse? This was the finding of a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
So what's the problem with the typical methods back and neck pain is treated? This article aims to answer that question and offer a solution to improve your whole-body health and end your back or neck pain for good.
Back and neck pain is complex to the point that 50% of cases are classified medically as "other or unspecified disorders of the back".
This indicates that typical treatment methods don't know the cause of the problem they are attempting to treat.
So what is the likelihood that treatment will "fix" the problem or possibly have the opposite effect and cause damage? Pain is a symptom of dysfunction - a signal that something is not right, however in many instances typical treatment looks rather to control and repress it.
Typical methods to treat back and neck pain fail predominantly for one simple reason: they fail to treat the body as one unit as a means to access the cause.
Chronic musculoskeletal pain rarely originates from the source of the problem.
This is because the human body was designed for survival and is able to adapt and compensate for muscle weakness and imbalance in other areas.
Pain is experienced where the body can no longer compensate, which quite often is the spine since our organs and extremities are attached to it and it has to hold us upright and move us against gravity.
The root cause of most chronic musculoskeletal pain is dysfunction resulting from imbalance in the "core muscles" - muscles of the trunk and pelvis that act as a foundation providing stability and structure to the spine.
The dysfunction is global, decreasing the function of the entire body.
For example, if the foundation of a house is compromised, the whole structure is compromised.
Doors and windows won't close properly and walls, pipes and beams are exposed to stresses that eventually cause them to break.
This example is grounded in one of the most integral laws of design; both man-made and those observed in nature - "form follows function and function follows form".
Is it possible that the solution to improve your back or neck pain as well as improving the health and wellness of your whole body could be as simple as restoring the integrity of its foundation? The answer is yes! As humans we like to believe in complex things and make things complex.
We have been conditioned as a culture to believe that complex surgery and drugs are the only things that can help our health.
They won't - and the statistics confirm this.
While the solution may seem simple, the actual restoration of balance to and strengthening the core muscles is more complex.
Here's why.
Since the brain is programmed for survival, it naturally favors and hardwires "dynamic" muscles that cause gross movement to move the body out of danger or push something dangerous away.
Muscles that provide stability like the core muscles are less likely to be favored and more likely to become weaker since they oppose movement.
To maintain some degree of function, the dynamic muscles must now do "double duty" and compensate by tightening since they have to assume the role of the weaker stabilizer muscles too.
Compensation is a brilliant survival technique to move you out of the path of a speeding bus but complicates things when you are trying to access the root problem - the strengthening of the weak core muscles.
So it doesn't matter how many sit-ups or how much "core training" you do, you will most likely just reaffirm and engrain the muscle imbalances further, which is could explain why even physical therapy is rarely successful in eliminating spinal pain.
So what is the solution to accessing the weak core muscles? Wouldn't it be ideal if there were a technique that could "activate" and strengthen the weak muscles to help restore muscle balance and function to the entire body and in the process eliminates pain for good? The good news is there is a technique call Myotonix that does exactly that.
It is a manual technique grounded in the principles and techniques of osteopathy and acupuncture to improve the well-being of the entire body by improving its structure.
The results are instantaneous and often astounding.
This article has highlighted the complexity of treating spine related pain and has offered some helpful advice on alternative treatment.
True health and full function of our bodies will only be realized when we begin to treat the body as it is - one body, not a collection of body parts operating independently.
S.
spent $86 billion on neck and back pain? What if you also knew that expenses increased 65% from 1997 to 2005 and yet the same surveyed patients got 4% worse? This was the finding of a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
So what's the problem with the typical methods back and neck pain is treated? This article aims to answer that question and offer a solution to improve your whole-body health and end your back or neck pain for good.
Back and neck pain is complex to the point that 50% of cases are classified medically as "other or unspecified disorders of the back".
This indicates that typical treatment methods don't know the cause of the problem they are attempting to treat.
So what is the likelihood that treatment will "fix" the problem or possibly have the opposite effect and cause damage? Pain is a symptom of dysfunction - a signal that something is not right, however in many instances typical treatment looks rather to control and repress it.
Typical methods to treat back and neck pain fail predominantly for one simple reason: they fail to treat the body as one unit as a means to access the cause.
Chronic musculoskeletal pain rarely originates from the source of the problem.
This is because the human body was designed for survival and is able to adapt and compensate for muscle weakness and imbalance in other areas.
Pain is experienced where the body can no longer compensate, which quite often is the spine since our organs and extremities are attached to it and it has to hold us upright and move us against gravity.
The root cause of most chronic musculoskeletal pain is dysfunction resulting from imbalance in the "core muscles" - muscles of the trunk and pelvis that act as a foundation providing stability and structure to the spine.
The dysfunction is global, decreasing the function of the entire body.
For example, if the foundation of a house is compromised, the whole structure is compromised.
Doors and windows won't close properly and walls, pipes and beams are exposed to stresses that eventually cause them to break.
This example is grounded in one of the most integral laws of design; both man-made and those observed in nature - "form follows function and function follows form".
Is it possible that the solution to improve your back or neck pain as well as improving the health and wellness of your whole body could be as simple as restoring the integrity of its foundation? The answer is yes! As humans we like to believe in complex things and make things complex.
We have been conditioned as a culture to believe that complex surgery and drugs are the only things that can help our health.
They won't - and the statistics confirm this.
While the solution may seem simple, the actual restoration of balance to and strengthening the core muscles is more complex.
Here's why.
Since the brain is programmed for survival, it naturally favors and hardwires "dynamic" muscles that cause gross movement to move the body out of danger or push something dangerous away.
Muscles that provide stability like the core muscles are less likely to be favored and more likely to become weaker since they oppose movement.
To maintain some degree of function, the dynamic muscles must now do "double duty" and compensate by tightening since they have to assume the role of the weaker stabilizer muscles too.
Compensation is a brilliant survival technique to move you out of the path of a speeding bus but complicates things when you are trying to access the root problem - the strengthening of the weak core muscles.
So it doesn't matter how many sit-ups or how much "core training" you do, you will most likely just reaffirm and engrain the muscle imbalances further, which is could explain why even physical therapy is rarely successful in eliminating spinal pain.
So what is the solution to accessing the weak core muscles? Wouldn't it be ideal if there were a technique that could "activate" and strengthen the weak muscles to help restore muscle balance and function to the entire body and in the process eliminates pain for good? The good news is there is a technique call Myotonix that does exactly that.
It is a manual technique grounded in the principles and techniques of osteopathy and acupuncture to improve the well-being of the entire body by improving its structure.
The results are instantaneous and often astounding.
This article has highlighted the complexity of treating spine related pain and has offered some helpful advice on alternative treatment.
True health and full function of our bodies will only be realized when we begin to treat the body as it is - one body, not a collection of body parts operating independently.
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