It's important to treat chronic pain causes rather than just the symptoms because treating the symptoms without addressing the root causes will result in limited relief at best.
This explains why you can experience a decrease in pain for a while, but once you return to an active lifestyle (running, biking, golf, tennis, working out, etc.
) the symptoms eventually return.
The reason the symptoms return is because you only treated the symptoms and not the actual causes of chronic pain.
For example, say you go running or play sports on the weekends.
At the end of the activity or the next morning you feel your lower back aching and you can't move comfortably.
In this case you might put some ice or a heat pack on your lower back or get the muscles loose.
After all, this is a logical approach...
...
But, let's take a closer look at what's really going on.
In this example, the lower back is merely a symptom but not a cause of chronic pain.
Typically, the lower back becomes over stressed when it performs too much work during activity.
This usually happens when you have weak hips and abdominal muscles that force the lower back to overcompensate.
This is only one example of many different scenarios that can happen.
It's important to realize that ignoring or failing to treat the origin of pain can lead to other problems such as:
I have identified these 3 areas as the main causes of pain when weakness exists in one or more of these ares.
The 3 areas are: the upper/mid-back, abdominals and the hip muscles Some key exercises to get you started on reducing your pain are: 1.
rows 2.
pull downs 3.
squats 4.
lunges 5.
presses Try to include these 5 movements as part of your chronic pain therapy and you'll be headed in the right direction to a stronger, healthier and pain free body.
This explains why you can experience a decrease in pain for a while, but once you return to an active lifestyle (running, biking, golf, tennis, working out, etc.
) the symptoms eventually return.
The reason the symptoms return is because you only treated the symptoms and not the actual causes of chronic pain.
For example, say you go running or play sports on the weekends.
At the end of the activity or the next morning you feel your lower back aching and you can't move comfortably.
In this case you might put some ice or a heat pack on your lower back or get the muscles loose.
After all, this is a logical approach...
...
But, let's take a closer look at what's really going on.
In this example, the lower back is merely a symptom but not a cause of chronic pain.
Typically, the lower back becomes over stressed when it performs too much work during activity.
This usually happens when you have weak hips and abdominal muscles that force the lower back to overcompensate.
This is only one example of many different scenarios that can happen.
It's important to realize that ignoring or failing to treat the origin of pain can lead to other problems such as:
- poor posture resulting in nagging pain and/or injury
- improper movement mechanics that create more stress to your joints
- decreased sports performance (running, golf, tennis, basketball, etc...
) - stronger muscles that compensate for weaker muscles resulting in repetitive joint and muscle stress
I have identified these 3 areas as the main causes of pain when weakness exists in one or more of these ares.
The 3 areas are: the upper/mid-back, abdominals and the hip muscles Some key exercises to get you started on reducing your pain are: 1.
rows 2.
pull downs 3.
squats 4.
lunges 5.
presses Try to include these 5 movements as part of your chronic pain therapy and you'll be headed in the right direction to a stronger, healthier and pain free body.