Where-ever your pain is, is not the problem, the issue in fact lies else-where’.
Where your pain is, is the area or structure that has been taken up the slack for another area or structure that is not doing its job. Yes, your sore back is not because you have a ‘bad back’. Something else isn’t pulling its weight and your back is taking on an over-load of work. Pain is a request from the nervous system for change.
I had a classic case with chronic low back pain this week. Sore when bending over with pain spreading across the low back when doing so. Generally, gets worse with movement or manual work. Sound Familiar?
All the muscles in the lower back where tight as a drum. Lower erector spinae, Thoracolumbar fascia and the QL’s all carrying access tension. So what then? Spend the hour session massaging or stretching the back? But this undoubtedly, won’t be enough. The trick lyes in finding out why there is an increase in tension in the back muscles.
Tested the core muscles rectus abdominals (six pack muscles) & Transverse Abdominals. Did some release work on the back muscles then some activation work on the weaker core muscles. Then assigned simple but specific home exercise program. (5 mins each day)
Have you had back pain for weeks, months or maybe years and no one has been able to really help it? Maybe it isn’t the back’s fault and the answer lyes with a weakness elsewhere in your body.