Does walking cause back pain?  You bet it can!  It also causes pain in your hips and pelvis IF you don’t move the way your body was designed to move.

Every week I do another episode of Pain Relief Radio.  Today we talked about how to walk to prevent or get rid of back pain.  We talked about how our walking patterns become faulty and how that causes pain.

We talked about walking with stiff knees and hips.  This kind of stiff walk contributes directly to arthritis in your hips and knees and fragile bones in your pelvis.  But bones stay strong and healthy when we use all of our muscles as they were designed to be used.

Meir Schneider wrote a great book, “The Handbook of Self-Healing, Your Personal Program for Better Health and Increased Vitality,” and I quoted lots from Meir and threw in plenty of my own thoughts, too.

Meir is a brilliant bodyworker in San Francisco.  I’m so fortunate to have taken classes from him.  There are people who understand how bodies work and what we must do if we are to be pain-free.  Meir is one of them.  His story of curing his own blindness with massage, eye movements and exercises is inspirational.  He has been helping people feel better with self-help movements for years.  We just have to know what to do; that’s what Meir shares.

If you walk with a smooth movement you will have no pain.

But, if you learned or acquired a less-smooth or “jerky” or stiff way of walking, or if you do certain things that bodies don’t like–like locking your knees backward–then you will have pain.

Bodies operate by following certain natural laws; they were designed to move in certain ways.  Getting back to the movements that your body prefers will help reduce your pain.  Walking easily and correctly will help you get rid of your back pain, naturally.

You can get rid of pain by walking.  You can feel better if you walk.  You were born to walk.  Start with your heel, roll your foot to your toes, push off with your toes. 🙂