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What Causes 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?  Because we are [...]

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When your back hurts you might think you will have back pain forever.  Not so! You have a smart body.  Your back pain is a message.  Your body is telling you that it is not happy about something that is happening. There are a lot of causes for back pain but most involve your muscles.  [...]

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If you have neck pain or back pain there’s a really good chance that you have lost the natural curves in your spine. When you were born you were curled into a rounded-back position.   In a little while you began to stretch your arms and legs and rolled over and arched your back in the [...]

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Back pain responds to stretching but not just any old stretching.  The muscles that need to be lengthened are not necessarily the same ones that are complaining! Here’s an article that goes into more detail about the benefits of stretching. http://www.wordcures.com/HealthyLivingDIY/2009/03/stretching_is_just_too_much_wo.html You may not remember but when you were a baby you were stretching all [...]

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Upper back pain, mid-back pain or lower back pain all have the same most common cause:  Your muscles. Muscles are the most frequent cause of back pain.  And that’s good news!  Why?  Because muscles can be “released” or treated and get back to their normal healthy state. Here’s more about muscles: Muscles move bones. Muscles [...]

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Back pain is often caused by posture.  When your posture collapses–you “fall forward” with your head leading the rest of the group–the muscles in your chest get short and tight.  That makes it hard to breathe, hard to hold your head up, hard to have good posture. At the same time, the muscles in your [...]

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If you have pain in your back it might be from muscles on the back side of your body.  Or…it may be from the muscles on your abdomen!  Your belly is the “front of your back.” Today a client told me that she had a great weekend stretching and straining and balancing on a ladder [...]

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Playing a musical instrument can really be a pain in the neck! Which muscles cause back and neck pain in musicians and what can get rid of the pain?

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There are many causes for chronic back pain. Muscle strain is one cause of chronic back pain. How do muscles become strained?

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Back pain has many causes, and most of them involve muscles. You can take charge of getting rid of your own back pain. You just have to know what is causing it and how to get rid of it.

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