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Back Pain Exercises
Theory of Back Pain ExercisesIf you ask a back doctor about the goals of exercise therapy, you are likely to hear something like this:“Exercise will strengthen your core muscles, which will help to support the weak and painful area of your back. Exercise will also help increase your flexibility, increase your effective range of motion and help to fight that tight feeling which bothers you so much.” This is what I was told countless times by far too many doctors to remember. It seems to be the standard answer given to most patients, although it makes little or no medical sense... After all, I was looking for a cure, not just some minor back pain relief! Back Pain Exercises RealityFirst off, the back muscles are incredibly strong. They rarely need strengthening, since the very act of keeping the body upright while standing is a terrific day to day workout. Second, supporting a painful area does not prevent symptoms and increasing the range of motion is mostly important during rehabilitation, when an injury has noticeably affected the normal function of the area. Regardless, exercise often does produce good results in many patients and the only mystery is WHY exactly it works…Back Pain Exercises for IschemiaOxygen deprivation back pain is the most common source of ongoing chronic symptomatic conditions. Unfortunately, this type of pain is rarely correctly diagnosed and most patients never know that their suffering is due to a completely harmless, although extremely agonizing condition. Exercise increases local circulation of blood, removing cellular waste products, and more importantly, bringing a fresh supply of oxygen to the affected region. Ischemia is known to cause nerve pain at very low levels of reduced oxygenation and can also cause muscular pain and back spasms at higher levels of oxygen deprivation. Exercise counters the effects of ischemia, reducing symptoms and providing temporary symptomatic treatment for the patient.Back Pain Exercises AdviceExercise is terrific, but it is not an effective cure for most types of back pain. If you have experienced temporary relief from exercise therapy, but always endure a relapse of symptoms a short time later, than you are certainly not alone. This is one of the most universal profiles of back pain shared by patients with many different diagnosed conditions. If this is your reality, then you must consider the fact that your pain might have been misdiagnosed. Oxygen deprivation back pain is almost always the result of a psychogenic process and can be cured easily and permanently using knowledge therapy. Remember that psychosomatic back pain is BY FAR, the most common form of chronic pain. There is no shame in acknowledging the existence of this condition, since interaction between the mind and body is NORMAL, HEALTHY & EXPECTED. It is simply a shame that so many patients would rather suffer in pain for years than explore an alternate and scientifically sound possible explanation for why they simply can not beat their chronic dorsopathy…
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