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 to trim, prune and clean up her yard.  She said it looked beautiful!  And she felt fine until she sat down.

When she tried to get up, her back from hip bones to shoulder blades went into spasm and tightened up!

She tried to press into her muscles to relax them the best she could but basically she had spent the last two days in bed.  She was very uncomfortable.

I warmed, massaged and pressed into the tight muscles along her spine for a while.  They were very tender but they didn’t seem to be releasing or getting better even though she said a few times, “I think you’re on the cause!”

So I suggested we work on the muscles on the front side of her body.  The right side of her abdomen was fine; no pain and no referrals.

The left side of her abdomen was “on fire” when I stretched the muscles on the soft abdomen.  Her ribs were “on fire” when I pressed into the muscles that ran up from her belly.

For whatever reason, the muscles on the left side of her abdomen had spasmed or “tightened up” and they were causing her back pain.  Even though the release was quite uncomfortable, the abdomen muscles did relax.  You can tell when they relax because they become less tender when pressed on.  When that happened her back muscles also were able to relax.

When an area of muscle causes another area to hurt, that is called a trigger point.  In this case, the trigger points in the belly were causing pain in the back.

Back Pain Natural Relief is a helpful site that may give you just the information you were looking for to get rid of the pain in your back.