Causes Of Back Pain

We humans get back pain when our muscles get out of balance.  How does this happen? Well, we are supposed to move, run, jump, climb, roll and continue doing all of the cool, fun things we did as young children. But most of us do not.  So, we get back pain.  Why?   Discover the rest [...]

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Kathryn Merrow on October 1st, 2010

Your feet are the foundation of your whole skeleton.  They are supposed to have arches (like little bridges) to support the rest of your structure.  But some feet don’t. Flat arches will cause the rest of the structure–your body–to collapse inward and forward.  This places a lot of strain on your muscles and causes back [...]

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Kathryn Merrow on August 26th, 2010

If your back pain won’t go away and stay away, maybe it just can’t. Here are several possible reasons: 1.  Muscle memory.  You might be able to relax or release the muscles just enough so your pain lessens but it comes back because your muscles “remember” that they are supposed to be in spasm.  You [...]

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Kathryn Merrow on August 17th, 2010

My last article told the story of how I dislocated my ribs.  This one continues to the cure.  It just wasn’t getting completely better so I ended up going to Janet McClain who is an excellent massage therapist in Southgate, Michigan.  She “surrounded the dragon” (the painful rib area) using finger pressure to relax tender [...]

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Kathryn Merrow on August 13th, 2010

“Woman Breaks Her Own Ribs Crawling Through Cave” That’s what I thought the headline would read.  It was my first time ever on a cave crawl.  When I got to the low ceiling and could no longer crawl on my knees I had to do the army crawl (belly crawl.)  That’s when I dislocated my [...]

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Kathryn Merrow on August 11th, 2010

What causes shoulder blade pain and back tightness and pain? Here’s an email I received from a healthy young man who always exercised with no health issues other than debilitating back pain. I used to work a very physical job with a lot of heavy lifting, bending, and twisting for an 8 1/2 hour shift. [...]

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