LOWER BACK PAIN (LBP)

The majority of LBP can be eradicated without surgery or the use of mind altering drugs.
Most Back specialists diagnose your back pain as purely coming from the spine or interverbral discs. The term slipped, bulged or ruptured disc is all too loosely used to pin point the cause of pain for the patient.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE YOU CONSIDER ANY FORM OF SURGERY

At the Institute of Rehabilitation, (NYU), doctors have reported that so many bad discs have been found in post mortems done on persons who never complained of back pain that the damaged disc can hardly be blamed as the main source of pain.

It is medically proven that the discs have very low levels of sensation (if any).

"With nearly one million spine surgeries performed in the U.S. each year, and a failure rate of 50%, too many patients either undergo spinal surgery that is doomed to fail or are put on mind altering drugs to manage, but not end their pain."

"The reality is that muscles are the primary source of chronic back pain. And muscle pain can almost always be successfully treated without surgery or drugs." Dr. Norman Marcus.

THREE URGENT FACTS EVERYONE SUFFERING BACK PAIN NEEDS TO KNOW

• Despite what any specialist has told you, 97% of all back pain is 100% curable
• Rarely is the pain coming from the spine and its interverbral discs
• The majority of practitioners treat the symptoms of your back pain and never address the underlying cause. Therefore your pain relief is short lived and must be continually managed.

WHY DO I HAVE BACK PAIN???
80% of Australians will be affected by back pain at some stage during their lives. A much smaller amount will be affected by chronic back pain in which they will be told that it is something that they have to live with for the rest of their lives.

The problem is that our most back specialists are brilliant at diagnosing ones symptoms. In fact they earn a bucket load of money doing so. Most specialist or orthopedic surgeons will charge upwards of $120 for a 10 minute consultation to give you a bunch of medical jargon to explain why you're in pain. Unfortunately they offer no pain relief, nor treatment plan to eradicate your pain!

Back pain, no matter how severe is not something you have to live with. Almost everyone can be restored to the same pain free state as before they started getting pain.

THERE IS MORE MONEY IN DIAGNOSING THAN IN FIXING

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WHAT CAUSES CHRONIC BACK PAIN.

Of course causes for back pain vary. What is important to understand is that the length or level of back pain you are experiencing is not necessarily a sign of how 'bad' your back actually is. However long - term post injury symptoms, regardless of wheter the pain is a 3 months old or 3 decades old, the solution to bad backs is the same. Address strength imbalances, address posture, remove inflammation and take pressure away from the spine. You will be amazed at how quickly our techniques have eradicated back pain in people who have been told they have no hope.

STAGES OF BACK PAIN

• Pre injury: a weakness and muscular imbalance will start to occur, build up over a period of time. The muscles that support the spine will weaken, diminishing the support that is required for normal pain free function.
• Injury: an event will occur that will trigger extreme pain. Typically an innocuous event, however it is usually the straw that breaks the camel's back.
• Short term symptoms post injury: Often severe and debilitating pain, commonly due to pressure on nociceptors (nerve endings), the periosteum (fascial lining of the bones), and intrinsic muscles in between the spine. Pressure is from the inflammation to the region due to injury to the intervertebral discs or even often purely the muscles in isolation. Superficial muscles in the lower back and gluteal region may also go into spasm causing further pain.
• Long term post injury symptoms: once the inflammation settles the pain will decrease significantly in most cases. The worst of long term symptoms come from the intrinsic muscles between the spine. Secondarily they come from the constant spasm and tightness of the muscles in the lower back, hips and through the trunk.

WHY THE PAIN REMAINS PRESENT IN CHRONIC BACK PAIN SUFFERS
Before your pain started, when you could move without restriction and discomfort, the muscles in your body designed to support your spoine and pelvis activated subconsciously. Research shows that after a trauma, these muscles effectively switch off! With these postural muscles gone, other muscles compensate - this is why you may notice your pain spreads .
The reason why pain remains present for years post back injury is as simple as this. Regardless of all the diagnosing, scans, and symptom treating, if your postural muscles are weak, not activating, or both, your pain will not subside.

WHY DO MOST MODALITIES TREAT THE SYMPTOMS NOT THE CAUSE?

Treating the symptoms makes people feel better, meaning that people become dependant on regular visits. This is a breilliant business concept for the therapist, but not great service for the patient in constant pain. This by no means is a crack at any individual therapist's integrity, it is more a crack at mainstream medical practice and the medical industry. movement.

The same rings true for pain killers that mask the pain but do nothing to cure or prevent pain. As with symptomatic treatment there is a mass market out there for it. People rarely expore the alternative.

HOW TO ERADICATE THE PAIN FOR GOOD

The key to eliminating chronic back pain is to address the cause of the pain. Remove all cmplicated medical jargon and simply look at what is causing the pain.

If you have muscular imbalances, you have bad posture.
If you have bad posture you overload certain areas.
Overload an area and you are in pain!

To eliminate pain,rid the body of muscular imbalances, bring it back to its symmetrical state i.e. perfect posture. Restore symmetry and you are pain free.

BIG STATEMENT -  HOW IS PERFECT BODY SYMMETRY ACHIEVED?

At Melbourne Muscular Therapies we combine two extremely unique techniques to achieve body symmetry.

Hands on deep tissue myofascial release: Removes the pain caused from tight muscles throughout the body

Postural Transformation power training: Strengthens all the weak muscles that are constantly causing the back pain and preventing pain free movement.