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Tense Back Muscles
Tense back muscles were a big problem for me during the decades I suffered from
acute
and
chronic back pain.
They continue to plague me in my neck, shoulders, mid back, low back and throughout my legs to this day. My pain started out as cycles of acute flare ups followed by periods of
fear
and nervous anticipation of the next dreaded attack. As I got older, my pain became steady and chronic. Basically, for 18 years, my back always ached to some extent and hurt severely some of the time. I found relief for a few years, but now suffer again, possibly worse than before in some ways and not as bad in others.
Muscle tension describes a tight and uncomfortable feeling, as if the fibers are so taut that they might snap. This feeling can exist almost anywhere in the dorsal anatomy and can make life very unpleasant for anyone who must cope with pain on a daily basis. This I can tell you from firsthand experience.
My Tense Back Muscles
I noticed a long time ago that I was susceptible to
back muscle tension
whether or not my back was hurting at that given time. It seemed like no matter how hard I tried to relax, my muscles just would never truly become loose. Even when I slept, I would wake up in the middle of the night and feel tension in my neck and lower
back muscles.
I never really thought too much about it, nor did the numerous
doctors
and therapists whom I consulted about my pain and muscular tension. As my condition got worse and worse, I began to educate myself about all the possible sources of
back pain
in general and specifically, my own torturous spinal issues. Lots of what I learned did not make much sense to me given what I had been told about my diagnoses. I continued to research alternative explanations for pain and eventually studied mindbody medicine in great depth.
Tense Back Muscles Education
The more I learned about my diagnoses of
herniated discs
and
degenerative disc disease,
the less my symptoms made any clinical sense. I had pain when and where none was indicated by my condition and did not have pain when symptoms would be appropriate. My doctors had no answer to this puzzling question and wrote me off as someone who was...
"Trying too hard and thinking too much".
THINKING TOO MUCH? Of course I was thinking... someone had to and it was obvious to me that these doctors did not care about why my pain would not go away despite a range of treatments lasting 18 full years of my suffering.
I began to uncover suspicions that my pain had been
misdiagnosed
all along. I learned more about the virtually universal nature of
psychosomatic pain syndromes
and more specifically,
psychological back pain.
I never thought in a million years that my very physical back pain could be the result of anything except a
spinal abnormality.
I was
conditioned
by the medical system to accept their diagnoses blindly and go along with the treatment plan, regardless of the skewed logic or dismal results. Well, now I was on to something and I was done being a victim… to the pain or to the opportunists in the healthcare system.
Recommendation on Tense Back Muscles
I learned that some patients with
unresolved back pain
and muscular tension might really be suffering from a mindbody condition. The symptoms are completely real and physical, but the causation is psycho-emotional. The tenseness in my muscles had been there all along due to repressed and unresolved emotional conflicts, fears and memories from my formative years. I was shocked and amazed that these “ancient” issues could hold any power over me so much later in life. However, using
knowledge therapy
I soon became sure that my pain had indeed been the result of these emotional processes all along. I overcame my chronic muscle tension and all the other associated symptoms which had plagued me for so long. I became stronger and healthier than ever before. The relief lasted a few years and was wonderful. Heaven, in a word. However, the effects of age and injury allowed the pain to return, once again dooming me to chronic pain. I am still working on finding a permanent answer to this problem and will continue to try and find a solution for all of us!
Tense Back Muscles to Back Pain
5/12/08 Revised 1/27/12
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Sensei Adam Rostocki
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