Causes Of Back Pain
What is the most common cause of back pain that you wouldn’t normally think of? We expect to have back pain when we work our muscles too hard but what else could make your back hurt? Here are three causes you might not have thought about: The most common cause of back pain is under-use [...]
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Muscles in the front of your body can cause pain in your neck and back? It’s true! Sometimes pain in your back is caused simply because tight muscles in the front of your body are pulling and causing stress in your back muscles. Sometimes the muscles in front have trigger points. Trigger points are crabby [...]
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Do you have pain in the middle of your back? Does it feel kind of like a wide band of pain below your shoulder blades? Or do you have a wide band of pain across your lower back? You know how I’m always telling you that muscles are the largest cause of pain? Well, this [...]
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What do medical test results for back pain mean? Does it all sound like Greek to you? Here’s an email I received from “Keith”: Hi Kathryn, I do regular workouts at gym and martial arts. For many years I often get a stiff neck or intense stabbing pain in my right scalpula or rhomboid (I [...]
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Your mattress definitely could be causing the knot in your back or shoulder. Here’s how: 1. An old mattress could be the problem or part of the problem if it sags or has depressions. Sometimes you can bolster up an old mattress by propping it from the bottom or padding the top. You might put [...]
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Summer’s here. Are you wearing your flip flops? Are you having back pain? I’m betting yes because you are here reading this article. If you are young, healthy, active and fit with great muscle tone your flip flops might not be causing back pain yet. The problem is that we are not all fit or [...]
I received the cutest email today from a man who has knots in his back. He said he loves to slouch but when he does he gets pain in his upper back and in his head. He loves to slouch. He gets pain when he slouches. His question was whether therapy would help him get [...]
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Can you get rid of the knots in your back for a while but they keep coming back? Let’s look at possible reasons. Maybe we can figure out the cause of your pain and get rid of the cause. It could be posture-related. Do you slouch or slump? It could be that you always lean [...]
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Your upper back pain is being caused by something and sometimes that something is as far away as your feet! Flat feet or ‘fallen arches’ can cause the ‘foundation’ of your body to be faulty. Instead of standing up with nice posture, people without arches in their feet tend to fall forward posture-wise. Here’s how [...]
How can you get rid of the knots in your back naturally? The first thing is to figure out WHY you are getting these knots. I’m not being silly here. There are always reasons why you have pain. Usually the reasons involve muscles. Muscles move bones. Muscles can press on nerves. Muscles are usually overlooked [...]
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