Inconvenient Truths About Treating Sciatica
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A key approach that we recommend in the Better Back System is educating yourself and taking responsibility for your own health and the condition of your back.
Especially, don’t wait to get sick and then try and fix yourself, rather take steps in advance to look after your wellbeing.
Exercise and diet are the two foundations of this approach.
Another important aspect is to review your routine daily activities and look for habits or postures that are placing stress on your back.
If you don’t do this and start swallowing a few pills each day instead, can you explain how that is going to help your back?
Unapologetically, we are advocates of natural health practices. It’s clear to me that the general American public is under the spell of the powerful “drugs and surgery” lobby groups and their health is suffering badly as a result.
You don’t have to take my word for it, below you’ll find links to eBooks with well researched information on the dangers of mainstream “healthcare”, which by the way is such a classic “big lie”.
Sickness care is too kind also, as there’s more care about profit than for the patient in many medical practices, but it is closer to the truth.
Book 1:
Death by Medicine
Book 2:
Interview with Gary Knull best selling author of “Get Healthy Now”
The Bottom Line:
More than 750,000 Americans are killed every year by American medicine.
Surely this can’t possibly be true!? Read the books for yourself and you decide.
Stay well.
Treating Lower Back and Hip Pain
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Precise diagnosis of the causes of lower back and hip pain is notoriously difficult because your spine is a large and complex organ that is full of joints, nerves and ligaments and is heavily interconnected with the surrounding muscles that support it.
For example, a doctor or back specilist may look at the back X-ray of a somebody with severe pain and see nothing unuusal apart from “routine wear and tear”. On the other hand, people who are exeriencing no back problems may have X-rays that suggest they should hardly be able to walk!
All the major nerves to your body’s extremities start by running down your spine and then branch out to these other areas. So if you have a problem with your middle or upper back you may find it affects the strength or feeling in your arms or hands.
The sciatic nerve exits the spine in your lower back and connects with your legs - thigh, calf, foot toes etc.
If your back suffers injury or degeneration it can affect the spine’s structure and/or alignment of the vertebrae (bones in your spine). This can result in pressure being placed on nerves as they exit the spine via gaps in the vertebrae.
This is what happens with sciatica - pressure is placed upon the sciatic nerve which results in pain and/or tingling and/or loss of function in your legs.
In terms of lower back and hip pain, the lower back is an area that is frequently affected by injury, aging, degeneration or wear and tear because it is an area of high stress. Lifting, bending, twisting, sitting or driving for long periods all affect your lower back in particular.
Note:
Commonly, “L4″ and “L5″ are 2 vertebrae in your lower back that are frequently impacted by wear and tear or injury and a cause of lower back and hip pain.
Once your back suffers an injury, or loss of function through aging and/or wear and tear (for example one or more disks may become thinner or distorted in shape), then 2 things are liable to happen:
1. The surrounding muscles are likely to spasm or “freeze” in an attempt to protect the spine from the threat of (further) injury.
2. This wear and tear can cause the spine’s alignment and vertebral spacing to change, thus leading to pressure being placed on nerves in and around the spine.
Both effects are likely to cause pain in the lower back and hip areas.
The Solution:
Here are ways we suggest you can treat back pain:
1. Get your spine back in alignment (as best you can allowing for injury and aging).
The options here include:
(a) active treatment from various therapists and specialists (physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors etc)
(b) doing items 2-4 below and waiting for healing to occur naturally
(c) doing a mix of (a) and (b) - this is my preference
(d) back surgery (be very careful with this)
2. Review your habits with the objective of eliminating bad movements and poor posture.
3. Improve your diet - eat healthy food and/or take a natural wholefood supplement
4.3. Strengthen the muscles that surround and support the spine. This treatment of sciatica back injuries is the focus of the the Better Back System.