Lower Back Pain

The Real Source of Your Low Back Pain
What is Your Health Care Professional Missing?

We live in a country where it has been estimated that as many as eighty percent (80%) of Americans will experience low back pain in their lives . In my opinion, this is a direct result of our sedentary lifestyle. Today we live in a convenience based society and are much less movement oriented. For example, we have remote controls, we do not have to walk in to pay for gas, we have electric can openers, we leave our grocery carts next to our cars (I do not and will not do this), we drive around a parking lot looking for the closer parking space, and the absolute worse is our computers. These days we could even order our groceries online and have them delivered to our kitchen if we wanted. Whereas, forty or fifty years ago physical activity was a very large part of our daily lives, today we seek out ways to avoid moving. So when a person is already working through low back pain, this lifestyle just makes recovery that much more difficult.

Now, I will be the first to tell you that I am no psychic, but when it comes to my clients who have been dealing with low back pain, it is relatively simple for me to make a prediction or two about what they’ve been going through. I can say this with confidence because over the past sixteen years I have heard the same stories repeated to me repeatedly. It goes something like this. The first stage is a kind of denial. Even though the person has been dealing with low back pain, almost everyone will wait on getting help in the hopes that the pain will get better on its own. Next, it is typical that they will schedule an