Flatting Out the Low Back Part 1: Why

This might not look like in an interesting blog post but I will admit to you that I think it's one of the most important that people understand when it comes to dealing with back pain. In many circumstances low back pain can be muscular in nature or structural in nature. Let me break down what I mean by this if the abdominal #muscles are weak the back muscles must pick up the slack because we are three dimensional objects in three-dimensional space therefore if the front of the body is weak and can't support itself very well spinal column and musculature on the back and spine must take over. This is a pretty common problem. The second circumstance for more back pain tends to be a structural problem in the spinal column or nerves and this is a much more difficult problem in that when the body. Structural issues not only influence weight distribution among the bony structures of the body but also all the muscles must react on top of providing movement to stabilize those unstable areas of bone and tissue.

So what does flattening out the back have to do with pain and why is it important thing for people to understand? When you stand upright and gravity pulls you down into the Earth the weight distribution on your body convergys at every single joint in the body which ultimately ends up in your feet. When you lay face up gravity pulls down evenly over the entire length of your body. The human spine has a natural curvature and if your feet and legs are flat that natural curvature does not disappear it's reinforced by the spring action of the spine itself. So if there are muscular or structural issues within the human spine and especially counting those in the back and hips why would we wanna flatten out this natural curve? The simple answer is to relieve the spring action what the spine naturally has in order to let the muscles better relax and heal. And you might see well I don't like sleeping on my back so why would I wanna do that when I'm awake? And the simple answer is the reason a lot of people don't like to lay on their back when they're asleep is because their other issues in the spine that make that position uncomfortable and if we can help the body relax by taking a stretch out of the spine in several locations we can actually reduce the pain level leading to the possibility of actually sleeping.

Look for part two we’re going to discuss how you actually do this. There's actually a particular way to straighten out the low back comfortably and still provide much-needed stability for the hips and the middle back.