CORE STRENGTH&BACK PAIN
You may be super surprised how common muscle weakness and muscle tension can lead to lower back and neck pain. You may even more surprised to hear how closely related neck pain and back pain are than you previously thought. For starters, the core is layered with abdominal muscles in a few layers, lower back muscles in a few layers, but also muscles that go from back to front, and from front to back, and of course from side to side. And, just to make the lower back more fun, there are tissues which attach on your legs and your spine, as well as your hips and your neck bones. Ok, it is complex, what can we do. We need to make sure the muscles are the proper length. Yes, that means some stretching or basic mobility exercises. You have to do them. (Look at my article below on compliance with exercise.) You also have to have the proper force distribution. That sounds fancy, but it basically means that the forces need to be balanced in all those patterns I mentioned above. Yes, strength exercises. You need to work muscles in all those planes to be balanced. But…You may still have pain. That means we need to look at the Facia system that is connected all throughout the body. Pain in your lower back can cause pulling in your neck and lead to headaches, and even TMJ. But, like I said. Easy to manage. Build the habit of coming to PT once every 2 weeks to manage your chronic back. It works.
- Noah
Thomas stretching for hip flexor muscle
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THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING YOUR EXERCISES AT HOME
A 2014 article surveyed 20,000 people who attended physical therapy. Guess what they found? 84% of those patients did NOT do their exercises at home. Ugh, why would they not want to get better. But, what is worse is 75% of those people then lied to their physical therapist about it. That means they told their PT that they were doing exercises, even though they weren’t.
You and I are going to fix this right now.
I promise not to yell at you for not doing your exercises, but you have to promise to tell me if I give you too much to do. I promise to ask you how you much time you have to do exercises and make sure I fit anything I want you to do in that slot.
I promise it won’t be too many things.
With back and neck pain it is super crucial to build a program which you can commit to. We will do that with you, and make it work.
If you do this, you WON’T be a statistic, you will beat your back or neck pain forever.
- Noah
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