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Have you got low back pain? It's common. Don't fear. Don't be afraid. You can gain mastery of
your low back.
The advice you'll get from doctors, therapists, or chiropractors can be confusing or even
misleading. They're not deliberately trying to mislead you. They might just be thinking about back
pain from a limited perspective.
Before you make a commitment to a treatment program, begin by understanding some of the key
facts about your pain and the low back. There's always a lot you can do for yourself to gain control
over your situation. Even if you need the extra help of a chiropractor, physical therapist, or medical
doctor, your treatment will be that much more effective if you're also doing all you can to help
yourself.
I spend a lot of time explaining low back reality to my patients. You can get a head start. Here are
the some of the key ideas I wish all my patients understood:
1. Pain is an experience that takes place in the brain, not in the muscles, joints, or discs. This
doesn't mean that pain is "all in your head". Pain has a tangible basis in the signals that are
coming in from your body. Change the signals, and the experience of pain will change. Or change
the way the brain processes the signals, and the experience of pain will also change.
2. The brain creates an interpretation of pain based on all the input coming from the body - all the
muscles, joints, ligaments, organs, etc. What that means is that only rarely is there a single site in
the body you can point to and say "Aha! There's the cause of the pain."
3. Doctors often identify the intervertebral disc as the source of low back pain. This violates
principle #2 in the paragraph above. But it's not entirely crazy, either. Discs are subject to a lot of
stress, and they're rich with nerve endings - nerve endings that can send pain signals into the
brain.
4. Nearly everyone over 30 - those with low back pain and those without - has some wear and tear
of the intervertebral discs. And if you have an MRI, you'll see it. The radiologist might call it
degenerated, herniated, or bulging, or use some other term.
5. Since nearly everyone has some disc damage, the appearance of your discs on an MRI doesn't
correlate exactly with the amount of pain you're in. It's a very tricky diagnostic situation. You can
have really bad discs but little pain, or only slightly damaged discs and a lot of pain. You can also
have pain on the opposite side of your disc bugle, or at a spinal level above or below your worst
disc. The MRI shows the architecture of the disc - it isn't really diagnostic.

2. 6. That means that most people are wasting their time having an MRI.
7. There's a lot of scientific research about the use of spinal adjustments (also known as spinal
manipulation) for low back pain. In many of the research studies, it turns out that adjustments are
helpful, though in other studies, adjustments don't show much benefit. It's a very tricky area to
research since there are so many variables - the types of low back pain patients being studied; the
type of adjustments given, as well as their frequency and the overall duration of treatment; if other
treatment is also provided; etc., etc., etc.
8. There's almost no evidence that adjustments (manipulation) causes harm in patients with low
back problems.
9. Surgery for low back pain, on the other hand, has been less rigorously studied than
adjustments. And like the study of adjustments, this type of research is extremely tricky to do, and
shows a variety of results.
10. Here's some bad news: back pain can become a long-term, recurring problem. That's not
always the case - many people have an episode or two of back pain, find a method to get relief,
and then stay clear of pain for the long haul. But, too commonly, once you start having a low back
problem, it can linger or return at a later point.
11. Here's why low back pain can become a long-term problem: When you have an attack of back
pain, some damage is done to the structures of the low back. Even though the pain can
temporarily go away, those structures haven't truly been healed. Then your back doesn't quite
regain its previous ability to support your body weight day-in, day-out. It's all too easy for the pain
to come back.
12. That's why most experts agree that the exercise you do to take care of your own back is
extremely important.
13. Unfortunately, even though there's wide agreement that exercise is important, there's very little
agreement about the "what, when, how, and how much" of an exercise program for low back pain.
14. Sit-ups, curl-ups, or crunches can actually do more harm than good. These frequently-
prescribed abdominal exercises are suggested because strong abdominal muscles support the
low back. But when you do these exercises, most often you're exercising the wrong groups of
abdominal muscles anyway. Plus, you can be putting extra pressure on the discs and other low
back structures.
15. There's a safer, faster way to develop core support instead: the plank pose. You're stretched
out long on the floor, with your weight resting on your elbows and your toes. Use your abdominals
to keep your whole trunk in a straight line from feet to your head. (You may have to find a picture
of this on the internet.) It's harder than it seems. Hold for 15 seconds. Repeat it once a day. When
15 seconds becomes easy, increase to 30 seconds per day.
16. Don't perform "pelvis tucking" exercises. Some examples of these exercises are: standing
against a wall and flattening your back against the wall; or lying on your back and pressing the

3. small of your back to the floor. Like sit-ups, curl-ups, or crunches, these exercises continue to be
commonly prescribed for the health of the low back. They're more likely to backfire. They put more
pressure on your discs. And when you flatten your back, your spine can't efficiently absorb vertical
forces (like gravity.)
17. A lumbosacral support belt can sometimes be helpful. This gadget cinches you in around the
waist and takes the pressure off your low back. Try it - sometimes putting a support belt on
relieves pain. For other people, it doesn't alleviate pain, but it protects the back and prevents it
from getting worse.
18. A support belt can also be useful when performing challenging activities like lifting, bending, or
riding in a car.
19. Another type of mechanical stress on the low back occurs when you shift your weight side-to-
side. This happens with each step when you walk. Or if you're standing around and let your weight
sag over to one side.
20. That's why strengthening your control of side-to-side weight-shift is an important part of
protecting your low back.
21. A good exercise to strengthen control of side-to-side weight shift:
a. Hold on to the back of a chair or a doorknob for balance.
b. Stand on your left leg and lift your right foot to the front, slightly off the floor.
c. While continuing to stand on your left leg, move the right foot slowly out to the side, then around
to the back.
d. Reverse the action of the right foot, slowly moving it to the side and back to the front, and then
lower it next to your left foot and stand on both feet evenly.
e. While you're moving your right foot, pull in your stomach muscles and balance evenly over the
left standing side, preventing your pelvis from sagging sideward or shifting to the front or rear.
f. Repeat the exercise on the opposite side.
Now that you've read this, take some time to pay attention to the pain that you're experiencing. A
lot of the pain solutions you're looking for can be found just by paying attention to your own body
and your own experience.
As you apply the knowledge contained int his article, you've already taken a huge first step toward
mastering your low back pain,
Best wishes!
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P.S. I've never examined you or treated you, so I have no clue about the specifics of your
condition. Don't be an idiot and blindly follow the advice in this article (or anything else you read on
the internet) without consulting a qualified physician as appropriate.
Copyright 2010, Ronald Lavine, D.C.

4. Ronald Lavine, D.C. offers a free guide: Top Five Exercises for Your Low Back, available at Your
Body of Knowledge.
He has thirty years experience providing hands-on, natural therapy to alleviate pain and restore
health.
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