There are not many of us who escape bouts of back pain at sometime in our lives, and often it seems to recur without reason. The majority of back pain clients I see in my clinic have not injured themselves in a fall or an accident, they may have had a slight niggle that they just ignored, and then one day the pain got bad enough that they needed to get some help.
Our body is an integrated system of 120 joints and 400 pairs of muscles working together, and these joints and muscles are controlled by our nervous system, and organs and glands.
This can be explained by our evolution from a single cell, both historically and our journey from conception to birth and on through life.
As a single cell, the goal is to integrate with other cells to avoid bacteria fungus and parasites as they eat them, and to feed those cells by finding food. In nature successful animals/humans increase no of cells (integration) – to increase safety and survival. Our torso is an exact model of the single cell organism and on a foundational level, with the same goal to get to food more effectively and avoid predators.
Our muscles and joints (muscular skeletal system) are the artwork of the organs. Therefore our diet, lifestyle, organ and glands are vital for our survival and will communicate with the musculoskeletal system if the food we are consuming is not right for us, if we are not getting enough rest, if we are not moving enough to help the heart and the digestive system to work, or if we are stressed.
If our diet is not right for us then we might feel bloated, tired or sleepy after a meal, which affects our posture, the position of our joints, our breathing, our core stabilizing muscles are switched off, and this is the most common cause of back pain that I see in my clinic.
If we sit most of the day, to the degree that our chair and computer is not supporting us in good posture our body will contort to fit into that position, our organs and glands get compressed, our intestines don’t pump to help digestion and elimination, and our veins find it hard to pump blood back to the heart, our nervous system transmits this pain to our musculoskeletal system, and one day we are in pain.
These are just two of many examples of how our amazing body, works together as a physical mental emotional and spiritual entity, and whilst ensuring your spinal alignment and muscles are working correctly are vital, understanding of what your organs, glands, mental and emotional or spiritual elements are communicating to you, are just as important to beat pain for good!
Helping yourself to life without pain is as simple and as complicated as tuning into what your body is trying to tell you from the food you eat, the rest and sleep you take, the movement and exercise you do, and your thoughts.
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