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Newsletter        Get the low down on health and fitness at fit and healthy online       June 2009

 

 

CAUSES OF BACK PAIN

 

 

TEETERING ON THE EDGE

 

If you don't have a regular and systematic strength and flexibility training program there's an 80% chance that sooner or later you'll find yourself teetering on the edge of a major musculo-skeletal disaster.

 

If You're 20Kg over weight make that 90%.

 

All it needs is an 'incident' - as minor as turning round to pick up a spanner or a phone book.

 

Then, splat, you're at the bottom of the cliff writhing in agony.

 

You can't bend over to put your socks on.

 

You have to lie on the bed to haul on your underpants.

 

You can't bend over the basin to brush your teeth.

 

It feels like there's a red hot poker in your back every time you sneeze and cough.

 

You can't sit in a car for longer than a few minutes before you want to get out and stretch.

 

You feel a burning sensation down one of your legs.

 

You can't play sport any more.

 

You feel depressed. You don't want to go to work.

 

You don't go to work.

 

Your doctor tells you to lie on your bed and pull you knees up to your chest. That's the only exercise they teach them at med school. Then he sends you over the road to his mate the chemist. Neither of them tell you that your crook back isn't caused by a lack of Celebrex.

 

You select a 1991 Wheels magazine from the pile and then wait behind a curtain for the physio to hook you up to a tens machine.

 

The chiro gives you a crunch at the spot where it hurts.

 

You think that maybe a deep tissue massage might fix it. It doesn't. You have to go home and get out the Radox.

 

You go to the Arthritis Association website for clues about what's caused your problem and what you can do about it. The first thing they ask you for is a donation. You think, sheesh, the medical industry must be on the bones of its backside!

 

You search their site for information. You find it.

 

'In most cases it is not even possible to find a cause of the pain.'

 

It's useless. I ask you, if you can't find the cause how do you go about fixing yourself up? How does anyone go about fixing you up. Read between the lines and you'll find the word 'scalpel'. If you look at who they recommend, you can see it's a front for the medical, pharmaceutical and physiotherapy industries.

 

You go to the NH&MRC website. It's vapid. What is touted as 'evidence-based management of musculo-skeletal pain', is selective evidence. Here's what they've got to say about your crook back.

 

'What causes acute low back pain? In around 95% of cases it is not possible to pinpoint the cause of the pain. However, it is not necessary to know the specific cause in order to manage the pain effectively.'

 

That's just pure bunkum. All they can do for your back is manage the pain, not the restore poor function to good. Read between the lines again; they're recommending you take a pill. They paid some university types big dough to come up with that one!

 

As a last ditch attempt to find out what you need to do to fix yourself up you Google 'Cochrane Collaboration' only to find that it's just another front for serial paper publishers.

 

A mate says his back got better when he hung upside down for an hour a day, so you spend an hour trolling through Ebay looking for a pair of boots with hooks on them.

 

Another mate suggests you start taking glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, MSM and fish oil. That sets you back another 50 bucks.

 

You're at your wit's end. Things aren't getting any better. You put it down to old age. You're 45!

 

Hey, I've got something for you.

 

 

 

FIX BACK PAIN

I've just revised my ebook, 'Fix Back Pain', which lets you know about the likely cause(s) of your dysfunction and what you need to do to relieve the pain.

 

More than relieving the pain though, the exercises I outline will help square you up, take the pressure off your joints and restore poor function to good.

 

Because Her Majesty had a belated birthday holiday a couple of weeks ago I've decided to drop the price for a week just so you can get your hands on a copy - PLUS the bonus e-books that go with it.

 

Click here to order the Fix Back Pain e-book

for the special price and get the bonus e-books

  • Causes of back, neck and shoulder pain

  • Exercises to Relieve Back Pain

  • Fix Neck Pain

  • Fix Shoulder Pain

  • Fix Knee pain

  • Strength training Diary

  • 21 Minute Aerobic Fitness Training program

You'll be linked to the www.globalbackcare.com website, set up to distribute the book world-wide - hence the US price, but it's still a good investment, containing the latest stuff on the prevention and treatment of the common musculo-skeletal dysfunctions.

 

Just keep in mind I don't have a miracle cure, but if you do the exercises I recommend there's an 80% chance that for 80% of people they'll get themselves back to 80% of good nick.

 

You may get some quick relief, but if you do the exercises every day you should notice a huge difference in seven or eight weeks.

 

  

 

HOW DO YOU KNOW?

So how do you know whether you're teetering on the edge?

 

Anyone, regardless of whether they wield a crow bar or have a cushy sit down job who

•   can't do a situp or a pressup

•   can't touch their toes

•   can't sit down on the floor and stand up again

•   can't get their hands flat back against the wall while in the 'surrender' position

•   can't sit up straight

•   doesn't have a strength and flexibility training program

•   is 15Kg or more overweight

is at grave risk.

 

In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and keep training while I take it easy for a couple of weeks.

 

Regards

 

John Miller

 

 

 

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