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There is a lot of good news in the field of alternative ways of healing and preventing back pain.
For example, there is Robin McKenzie out of Australia whom in the fifties discovered “by mistake” that extending the front of the body can help relieve back pain.
He had a patient come to see him, and this patient was sent to wait in a room that had the examination table at a 45 degree angle. And he laid down on it, with his back at 45 degrees. When McKenzie went came to see him he was in shock… he was scared! that was NOT the way to go…
And yet, when he asked the patient how he was doing the mans said he was better, the pain had receded from the leg and was only in the lower back, and he could bend forward (which he had not been able to do before)
You can read that story in the book:
7 Steps to A Pain Free Life How to Rapidly Relieve Back and Neck Pain.
But there is more…
The exercise the Mayo Clinic suggests for back pain is lying down on the floor, face down, and lifting up everything, airplane style, except for the torso… which is an extension of the front of the body…
In yoga we’ve called that shalabhasana for centuries. Mayo clinic calls it the exercise they designed for preventing back pain.
Good!
BUT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE, and the difference, the EDGE that yoga brings is the BREATH.
The breathing when done well means the whole world of difference and you don’t have to believe me, just try it.
What is the problem?
we KEEP ON SLOUCHING OVER, while driving and sitting down and typing…
and we never counteract this pose, and so the muscles of the stomach give, and they do not support the back as well.
You can also read anything by Egoscue. Same principles.
FINANCIAL ISSUES
Anything that mentions back pain must refer, of course, to John Sarno’s book: Healing Back Pain: The Mind Body Connection
It is a great book and it points out to how when we are stressed about financial matters, the mind might choose to cut the oxygen supply to certain muscles rather than deal with the issue, which in turn starves muscles that are key in supporting the back…
And our back “goes”
But really at the core of it is financial problems…
I never thought that was real until when my father died and the issues that came up in distributing moneys (which was not a lot believe me), were so huge that my own back went.
WARNING
Do not do this exercise sitting down because a friend of a friend of mine did that and woke up in a pool of her own head’s blood
WARNING
I am a yoga teacher not a doctor, visit one if you are having big troubles with this.
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