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Simple care at home for serious back pain

Back pain can diminish our quality of life. Even a mild case of lower back pain is capable of lowering our life-satisfaction index to a considerable degree. Imagine how terrible it can be if your back pain is the chronic and severe type, which is more prevalent. The good news for sufferers of serious backRead

Back Pain- The Height Myth

Myth: Tall people have more back problems because they have more vertebrae. In addition to this, their center of gravity is higher than the average height, which can also lead to more back problems. Fact: Tall people have the same number of spinal vertebrae (24 total vertebras) as shorter people. They just have taller vertebraeRead

Walking Upright Myth

Myth: Many people believe that walking upright places more stress on your disc. Fact: For more than 2.5 million years, we have been standing straight and evolution has compensated for this through proper posture and curves in the spine. So standing for millions of years on two legs has allowed a normal C curve inRead

Travel To Underdeveloped Countries Helped Me Discover a Secret on Back Pain

That Secret is Good Posture and Keeping Active. Posture is something that used to be drilled into our heads from the time we were young. But posture is often misunderstood or not taken seriously so I like to refer to it as Proper Human Positioning (PHP). Our mothers would tell us to stand up straight.Read

Back Pain – A Surprising Find in Haiti Part 2

I was one of the volunteer health professionals that come to the aid of Haiti after the big earthquake recently and I learned from Haitians the amazing fact that a highly active lifestyle does our back good instead of the other way around. There is this mistaken notion in much of the Western world thatRead

Back Pain – An Amazing Discovery in Haiti

I went to Haiti recently to help the people there rebuild their country and lives from a devastating earthquake that killed thousands and totaled buildings and homes. There was death and destruction everywhere I looked. But something struck me while I helped minister to the sick and injured: the tragedy failed to dampen the spiritsRead

Breaking a Myth

Myth: Tall people are more susceptible to back problems because they have more vertebrae. This problem is compounded by their center of gravity, which is higher than people with average height. Fact: Tall and short people are built with the same number of spinal vertebrae totaling 24. The tall ones just have longer vertebrae, discsRead

What muscles are involved in good positioning

Weak muscles or overly tight muscles cause back pain which in turn is the result of bad posture. Better understanding of the muscles involved in bad posture is the first step in overcoming back pain. The key muscles that support our back are the following: Neck Flexors and Extensors – these muscles are very importantRead

What is proper human positioning or posture?

Posture is too sweeping a word so I prefer the term Proper Human Positioning to describe the best, pain-free way of using one’s body. Posture can be taught in many different ways but there is only one way of preventing future damage to your body – this is through proper human position. When we talkRead

Understanding proper human positioning

Proper human positioning or posture is becoming a lost art, but it is still very prevalent among tribes in Africa, Asian farming communities, Haitians and other developing countries where it is part of culture to stand, sit erect and bend by using the hips instead of the back. In ancient times, the primeval man usedRead

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