How many times have we used the expression?

• My back is just killing me. It is so painful.

• When I bend over or even turn around.

• When I sit in a chair too long.

• When I sit at my computer, the chair is not comfortable.

• My back hurts all the time.

• When I lay in bed, my back gets very painful.

• And on and on it goes.

The Solution is Here

The common cause of back pain, sciatic, herniated disc and all our other aches and pains is what we call "Repetitive Muscle Stress" (RMS)

We find that muscles are the missing link to our back pain. Muscles have to work together in groups or in pairs. Muscles pull Bones; Bones do not pull on Muscles.

How many times were you informed that one leg is shorter than the other? The cause of this is that the muscles supporting the hips are out of balance. The muscles on one side are tighter than the muscles on the other side. To correct this imbalance, muscles have to communicate with each other. The muscles communicate with each other through the brain.

Muscles get so tight, hypertonic; that they pull on the spine which we discovered is one of the many causes of muscle stress pain, back pain, sciatica pain, herniated disc.

The pelvic girdle, (hips) acts as the foundation for the human structure. We have found that stabilizing this pelvic foundation is often crucial to getting satisfactory long-term pain relief throughout the body.

Attempting to fix back pain, or knee, feet pain, or shoulder pain, without first strengthening the pelvic girdle, (the hips) is as futile as patching cracks in the walls of a house with an unstable foundation. Cracks will continue to recur in the wall until the foundation is stabilized and stops moving.

The reason why we know this is that Elizabeth had acute back pain. She was in constant pain all the time. She had a difficult time getting out of bed in the morning. She had very little range of motion in her arms, neck and legs. With what was called Sciatica Pain, she had severe pain down both legs, also her feet hurt. By balancing the muscles that support the hips, to her surprise, most of the pain disappeared and also helped the pain in her feet

We like to look at the cause of the pain instead of working with symptoms. We find that 'Muscles are the Missing Link'.

Usually the pain can be released in a few minutes with the use of simple neuro-muscular balancing exercises These exercises work because they release the over energized (hypertonic) muscles and strengthen the weak (hypotonic muscles) that create the structural imbalances causing the pain.

We make use of the body-mind intelligence to balance the appropriate muscle groups. We generally use a 2-step balancing procedure:

1) Strengthen the pelvic girdle.

2) Balance other muscle groups for the specific problem.

What is a Herniated Disc?

Many patients with back pain, leg pain, or weakness of the lower extremity muscles may be diagnosed with a herniated disc, or bulging disc.

Why does a disc rupture? The muscles supporting the spine get so tight and overly stressed that they pull on the spine and something has to give. Often the discs get pulled out of shape. Think about it. It is like a tug of war with the muscles.

Muscles we discovered may be the MISSING LINK Remember: Muscles Pull bones, Bones Do Not Pull Muscles!!