Chronic Upper and Lower Back Pain

Chronic back pain of any type can range from all encompassing, where it affects every aspect of your life, stopping you from doing the things you want or need to do, to just being annoying, draining your energy and keeping you from being as productive or as nice and understanding as you want to be…

I understand this all too well...

When I was only 20 years old, I suffered from debilitating on and off sharp, stabbing low back pain.  It would come on all of a sudden from things like picking up my tennis shoe, towel or backpack, and once it “went out” it took 5-7 days just to feel tolerable again only to happen again 3-4 weeks later. Over and over and over it went causing my entire life to slowly change.  I became fearful of injury so I stopped doing life, which made me grumpy and stressed, finding it hard to concentrate or be productive...basically my life sucked because of my stupid back. If this sounds remotely familiar, we may be able to help you.  But first, you must understand why you hurt, not your diagnosis, but the cause of your pain.

Pain at its basic level is your body telling you about tissue damage that is occurring or has occurred.  This is why many forms of health care options to treat back pain from medication to massage is at best temporary and at worst further damaging.

To rid yourself of your back pain as I have done, you must do 4 things: 

1. Stop damaging it (surprisingly most health care doesn’t teach how to do this crucial step!).
2. Find out what specifically is damaged and determine the CAUSE of this damaged tissue.
3. Rehabilitate the damaged tissue.
4. Learn to strengthen the new postural & movement patterns to not recreate the problem.  

Less than 1% of musculoskeletal pain comes from disease, 99% is due to wear and tear from injury, postural distortions and/or poor movement patterns.

If you are tired of your pain and the impact it is having in your life and want to treat the damage (#3) as well as learn how to keep it from coming back (#1 & #4), please click the link below and set up your consultation right now!  There is no charge to discuss your case and any exams necessary to Identify the CAUSE (#2 from above) will be discussed with you prior so that you know exactly what costs will be incurred before you incur them!  Our care is different and we believe you CAN heal if YOU do things differently!

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