the biggest player

WHO IS THE BIGGEST PLAYER IN YOUR BACK PAIN?

 The biggest player… is gravity.   

Gravity changes the forces that come through our spine as our posture changes.   Whether we experience back pain simply from bending forward over time, or with exaggerated curves, such as in scoliosis or hyperkyphosis, or with disc degeneration and osteoarthritis, we have asymmetrical loading.    

The result is that the soft tissues on the center of the vertebrae are pushed out laterally and/or posteriorly, into highly sensitive soft tissue structures, resulting in strain, pain, and disability.   

What can we do?    

We can apply Katharina Schroth’s Principle of Elongation.    

Elongation, simply put, is becoming tall. Pulling your head out of your shoulder girdle. Elongating your neck. Taking the turtle's head out of the shell. Imagining being pulled up by a rope from the back of your head, up into the sky.   

This is decompressing your spine. It is creating a space between your vertebrae. It’s offering the intervertebral disc somewhere else to go, to move away from highly neural structures and to centralize. It’s allowing each vertebral level to be nourished. It’s allowing the painful stimuli to be calmed.   

Be the winner of your back pain, fight against gravity with Spinal Elongation.