Is Poor Health And Back Pain Ruining Your Life? Find Out What You Can Do About It Now

Is Poor Health And Back Pain Ruining Your Life? Find Out Why Now!

When it comes to overall health, what rating would you give yourself? Would you say that you are in excellent health… above average health… fair health… or poor health?
 

Well, according to statistics from America’s Health Rankings, as many as 23 percent of people in the U.S. would say that they suffer from fair to poor health. 
 

How can this be? You have access to thousands of drugs on the market today and doctor’s offices on every corner. 

The truth is… conventional medicine is not doing you any favors.
 

Also there's recent evidence revealed by the U.S. Department of Education stating that most people are “health illiterate” when it comes to understanding detailed medical instructions because they’re overloaded with medical jargon.
 

That’s not surprising considering that the medical establishment is hoping that we stay in the dark when it comes to physical and mental well-being. The bottom-line (literally) is if you take charge of your health and pain management and get well, then you won't be taking any drugs or going to any doctors or to the hospital, which means less cash going into their pockets. You being in excellent health is not in the interest of maintaining the livelihood and wealth of those in conventional medicine, and this leads to a focus on profitable treatments first, whether or not they're genuinely safe and effective (with rare exceptions).

Let’s face it: if you suffer from any form of chronic pain, then you’re miserable and desperate to find pain relief you've not been getting up until now.
 

My friends at The Healthy Back Institute have spent the last 10+ years uncovering little-known secrets for kissing your worst health disasters and chronic pain goodbye once-and-for-all.
 

By watching this short video, you will discover 1 quick way to relieve your pain in less than 1 minute! I’d say that’s quite a bargain. But that’s not all. You will be introduced to other health tips to help relieve your back pain… reduce your stress... lower your blood pressure levels... improve your flexibility and mobility... and even improve your sex life in the bedroom.
 

And not only will you experience pain relief now, but this short video will tell you how to prevent chronic pain flare ups in the future. Once you’re pain-free, you’ll be able to enjoy:
 

•    Picking up and playing with your kids and grandchildren
•    Becoming and remaining mobile … so you don’t become a burden to those you love
•    Living with the confidence and freedom of worry-free days
•    Relief from fatigue, irritability and anxiety
 

So why not change your life for the better today?  BE the person YOU want to be and DO the things YOU want to do. Stop missing out on your favorite activities… because the days of poor health and back pain controlling your life are about to be OVER!
 

Watch this short video that will reveal everything you need to know about back pain relief… and more!

Stay Healthy My Friends,
Jevaughn Brown

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Back Pain Treatment University Study Shows Why 80% of Them Don’t Work

New Keele University Study Shows Why 80% of Back Pain Treatment Doesn’t Work

I came across a brand new study that I think you, dear reader, will find fascinating - I sure did.
 

Recently published in The Lancet, a study at Keele University, located south of Liverpool, England, looked at 851 adults with back pain.* They wanted to know why 80% of these folks, with an average age of 50, still complained of back pain one year after visiting their doctor.
 

It turns out these patients were offered the same standardized back pain treatment when they visited their doctor for their back pain. You know; the “one size fits all” approach… painkillers, generic exercises, and general advice for self-treatment. (Sound familiar?)

Here’s where it gets interesting… When the researchers took a group of 568 of these study subjects and customized their back pain treatment, they saw marked improvement in their pain in as little as 4 months.

In other words, when they were given different options of back pain treatment appropriate to their individual needs, they finally found lasting pain relief. Options like specialized exercises, acupuncture, acupressure points, and even emotional approaches.
 

At the end of the study, 12 months later, what did they find? Not only did the study members enjoy substantially less back pain, they also reported that they functioned better on a daily basis, both physically and emotionally.

And you know what the real kicker was? After 12 months, those members who had gotten customized back pain treatment reported they were less fearful, less depressed, and in better general health!
 

You and I both know that no one approach works for everyone, even though traditional health care still wants us to believe that. Everyone’s situation is unique, including the cause of the back pain – and therefore what works to banish it for good also varies.
 

Back pain can occur for so many different reasons: Muscle imbalance… stress and negative emotions… sitting for too long… poor posture… sleeping wrong... Even the foods you eat every day can cause or aggravate back pain - all obviously requiring a more or less different back pain treatment to heal each case.
 

So if all these things – and more – can cause your back pain, doesn’t it make sense that you might need more than a “standardized approach” to get rid of it?
 

What if you had a whole selection of choices – a ‘smorgasbord’ of back pain treatment options? After all, what works for certain other men or women may not work for you.

The Healthy Back Institute has gathered their very best collection of back pain treatment tricks and put them together in a brand new report called 101 Back Pain Relief Tricks: Quick and Easy Ways to Finally Beat Back Pain!

For more than a decade the dedicated experts at the Healthy Back Institute have been helping back pain sufferers – over 200,000 of them in 85 different countries – find lasting relief. Believe me, they’ve learned a thing or two over the years (and they were already experts when they started the Institute.) And now they’re ready to pass on their wisdom to you because they know that no ONE approach helps EVERYone!

In 101 Back Pain Relief Tricks, you’ll discover secrets for both immediate relief and long-term healing. And best of all, what they share with you in this special report is simple, fast, and guaranteed to work. It even has about 50 or so videos included showing some of the tips and tricks being used in real life so that you're perfectly clear on how to apply whichever back pain treatment works for you. 

You can tap into a couple of tips a day, or devour the entire
book in one weekend like I did. Either way, you’ll have plenty of proven options to test out in the privacy and convenience of your own home. Find out more about how you can finally beat your back pain - once and for all.
 
I know you’ve put up with your discomfort long enough. And you’re sick and tired of the “standardized approach” that your doctor keeps handing you. It’s time for a new option… or 101 of them, to be exact.
Click here to find out more.

Stay Healthy My Friends,
Jevaughn Brown
P.S. – If you’re like most people, you’ve probably dabbled with many a back pain treatment that promised relief. Before you spend another dime for the newest potion, supplement, or pricey treatment that may or may not work for your pain, you owe it to yourself, your back, and your wallet to check this out first. Click here now.
 
*Management of low back pain in primary care: a new approach. The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 29 September 2011, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61033-7
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61033-7

5 Tips For Getting Rid Of Piriformis Pain And Back Pain

5 Tips To Eliminate Piriformis Pain and Back Pain Quickly Without Harmful Medications or Dangerous Surgery

So many people the world over suffer from piriformis pain and back pain unnecessarily when there is actually a very simple step-by-step solution to healing these conditions, according to Jesse Cannone, certified personal trainer, back pain specialist and co-founder of The Healthy Back Institute. “Unfortunately, many people are led to believe that back pain is normal and we’re all supposed to experience it... well, thankfully, that’s not the case. Eliminating back pain is not nearly as difficult as most people think or are led to believe... it can actually be easy!” says Cannone.

Now here’s the simple 5-step system that MUST be followed if you are looking for real, long-term, lasting piriformis pain and back pain relief:

Step 1: Identify The Cause

Nearly all of the treatments for back pain and treatments for sciatica people receive only focus on the symptoms and the healthcare professionals most people go to focus very narrowly only on the area where the pain is. The real key in eliminating back pain and piriformis pain is to find out exactly what’s causing the problem... (And by the way, the causes of these conditions usually ISN’T in your back!)

Step 2: Address Both The Cause And The Symptom

The best way to go is a combination of using treatments that first quickly relieve the symptom of pain – such as in the video I share in the article One Of The Best Piriformis Stretches Ever For Relieving Piriformis Pain – and simultaneously doing treatments that correct the underlying cause.

Step 3. Be Aware

It is critical for a piriformis pain sufferer to get in tune with their body. In fact this is true with ANY pain condition. Many people are not sensitive to their bodies, for various reasons. The problem is that if you’re not in tune with your body, then you aren’t able to notice what treatment is working well, and what is not really working at all to relieve your piriformis pain. You can't gauge the speed of your progress. In order to achieve long-term pain relief you have to understand how your body works, what’s causing the problem, what changes have to be made to correct it AND learn to sense how your body is doing in healing itself over time. That way you can make any needed changes to your treatment activities as you go along to improve your results.

Step 4: Consistent, Focused Action

Succeeding at anything calls for consistency and being focused with your actions. Most people with piriformis pain or back pain just won't make the time to work on their problem every day... They’d rather take dangerous painkillers constantly to suppress the pain – which just allows them to cause more damage to their bodies that worsens the pain and makes the condition harder to fix. Are YOU willing to do things differently to finally free yourself of the pain?

Step 5: Don't Do What Doesn't Work

“Duh”, right? Well the fact is violating this point often seems to be part of being human. We already know that most traditional treatments for sciatica and for back pain don't work.... So why waste your time, energy, and money? Don’t get sucked (back) in to struggling once again with these treatments that regularly fail. The real key to eliminating your pain is to identify the true cause of the pain and then address it with a combination of treatments to correct both cause and symptoms. 

Look, over 80% of all forms of back pain are caused by muscle imbalances... NOT a lack of painkillers, injections or surgery! Find out what's going on in your body and take action...

Jesse, a world-recognized expert, has a new book out now aptly titled, “The 7-Day Back Pain Cure”. In it he expands on these 5 tips and reveals even more, guiding you to find the source of your pain; understand why other approaches to get rid of it have failed; and then create a “made-to-order” treatment plan tailored to your exact condition. Best of all, the book itself is FREE if you click here to get your copy.

Watch the video on the page to learn more then claim a free copy of The 7-Day Back Pain Cure.

Stay healthy my friends,
Jevaughn Brown
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Is Your Job Killing Your Back, Butt or Both?

Is Your Job Killing Your Back? 

Do you live with back pain day after day? Do you endure pain running from your buttocks down into your thigh that flares up time and time again? Usually that's piriformis pain (but naturally you need to test to be sure.) Well, did you know that the problem in both these cases most likely has nothing to do with your back or your legs?

You see, the truth is in our modern day lifestyles we constantly fold and hold our bodies for long periods of time in positions that are biologically abnormal for us. Whether it’s working at your desk for 8... 9... 10 hours a day, commuting to work, relaxing and watching TV, etc, your body isn’t meant to stay in the “sitting” position for very long. Just watch the National Geographic Channel when they're featuring tribal peoples who still live as people did in pre-"civilized" times - You'll notice they're almost never sitting in one place for as long as we do today.

Now I don't know about you, but I'm a modern-day kind of guy, and even though I like to exercise, outside of that, whether I'm working, driving, hanging out or enjoying some entertainment: I'm usually sitting. It all adds up to the majority of most days spent - more or less - parked on my derriere. And I dare say that's true for most of us. And the catch is even if you avoid this trap in your personal time, the vast majority of us can't avoid many hours of chair-riding when it comes to our work hours on the job.

What’s the result of this? The body becomes misaligned… especially your hips. After a prolonged period of time of this, your hips start to pull excessively on the tendons and ligaments that connect it to your back. This constant pulling is the most common cause of the sharp or dull back pain most people suffer from at some time in their life; including me not too long ago.

For others, it leads to piriformis pain. Piriformis pain occurs in this instance because some people tend to sit nearer the edge of the chair with their feet apart and toes pointed outward - The piriformis muscle is in the hip area and it's the major muscle that rotates your leg/feet outwards. Thus in these cases the piriformis muscle is constantly contracted and shortened, and eventually becomes tight and stiff. In this position it then squeezes the sciatic nerve, creating piriformis pain. The medical name is piriformis muscle syndrome.

If you were to go to a typical doctor, you’d probably be told to do some stretches to “fix” your back or your leg respectively.

But there’s a problem with this "solution"...

Most of these stretches are designed to loosen your joints. And the key factor that these doctors unfortunately don’t know about is that you don’t want loose joints. You want them to be tight. Tight joints mean stable, strong joints that help prevent injury in the first place.

That’s why I recommend a specific set of stretches to anyone with these painful conditions. I revealed two of those amazing stretches - with video - that relieve piriformis pain in my previous articles; One Of The Best Piriformis Stretches Ever For Relieving Piriformis Pain and in As Easy As Sitting: Another Powerful Piriformis Pain Stretch. 

The following stretches are ones I show to anyone I know with general back pain. They help realign your hips and other major joint regions to relieve stress on your back, but also works to keep those joints nice and tight to resist injury in the future. Do these great stretches from my friends over at the Healthy Back Institute daily to reduce or better yet avoid back pain...

Shoulder Stretch: You really need to stretch and develop these muscles' flexibility because they are prone to injury. Tight shoulder muscles also contribute to back and neck pain, especially if your head and shoulders droop forward.

How To: Stand in an open doorway. Raising your arm to a 90-degree angle with palm facing out, press your hand and shoulder against the wall and doorjamb. You should feel the wall against your armpit. Slowly increase the tension as you push forward. Hold for a 10 count. Then repeat with the other arm.

Hip Flexor Stretch: You seriously have to do this stretch if you sit all day at work like me. Sitting all day puts pressure on the hip flexor muscles. This is a major cause of minor lower back pain (if you can call any back pain “minor”). It's totally avoidable - Stretching your hip flexor muscles several times a week will prevent this kind of lower back pain.

How To: Stand in a modified runner's stance, with right foot forward and left foot back, feet flat on floor. Put your hands on your hips and keep your back and hips in straight alignment. Push forward with your hips, while maintaining your erect posture. Slowly, push your hips forward only until you feel a comfortable level of tension. Hold for a count of 10. Switch sides by reversing your leg stance and repeat.

Give these a try. They work like a charm for me. If you're already following an exercise program that's even better; you can fit these into your warm-up or wherever you judge best. Start off every other day and go from there. Consistency is vital.

There are other steps you can take to overcome back pain and sciatica naturally, too. In fact, Jesse Cannone – a top pain relief expert, fitness trainer and co-founder of the Healthy Back Institute – has written a book called The 7-Day Back Pain Cure. It shows you how to identify the real root of back pain/piriformis pain/sciatic pain problems as there are a variety of causes and attacking the wrong cause will not bring pain relief. Then it teaches you how to fix them without drugs, injections, or surgery - which don't really FIX anything anyway. 

The book also reveals numerous measures you can take to prevent back pain in the future. Truly invaluable information coming from someone who's been treating clients in pain for well over a decade.

It's not an eBook or anything like that - it's a real book for sale on Amazon, but don't go buy it because if you go to his website right now you can get a Free copy. You just pay a small shipping fee...

And it gets even better... a portion of your shipping fee is donated to one of two great charities: Habitat for Humanity or Kiva.org - you choose which.

Help yourself and help charity: Get your free copy of the bestselling 7 Day Back Pain Cure book here.

Stay healthy my friends,
Jevaughn Brown
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As Easy As Sitting: Another Powerful Piriformis Pain Stretch

Another Powerful Piriformis Pain/Sciatica Stretch

A few days ago I shared a short but powerful video demonstrating a simple piriformis stretch that has been a god-send for many a piriformis pain sufferer. Of course, it is fantastic for practically all sciatic pain sufferers too. Thousands have found rapid relief from doing this stretch regularly. You can watch it over at One Of The Best Piriformis Stretches Ever For Relieving Piriformis Pain


Now continuing in this series of piriformis stretches, I present to you another video of a piriformis stretch/sciatica stretch that is even easier to do than the last one. You can just take a few minutes literally anywhere, while seated to boot, and do this simple stretch and ease your piriformis pain... (This type of sciatic pain is caused by piriformis muscle syndrome - You can learn how to identify if you have this syndrome, how it "works" and how to cure the piriformis pain here.) If you're hurting anywhere in the thighs, buttocks, hips, and/or back try this out for a few days and feel some of that persistent pain fade away. Especially if it's piriformis pain, which is the focus of this website.


Now watch below as Jesse Cannone, CFT, CPRS, MFT, Co-Founder of The Healthy Back Institute demonstrates for us...





You can receive a free copy of the Sciatica Relief Guide Jesse talked about when you click right here.


That was the easiest piriformis pain/sciatica pain stretch you've ever seen wasn't it? It CAN literally be done anywhere too - most of us are sitting most of the day and night anyway, and this stretch only takes about a minute to do. It's fitting too, since sitting around too long on a daily basis is a major contributing factor to developing piriformis pain. Now we can ease the pain while sitting!


Remember to do this stretch regularly and with focus to get the full benefit of it.


Again, for far more accurate information about sciatica pain and back pain and how to stop the pain, claim your "Sciatica Advisory" for free that shows how you can potentially eliminate your sciatica in as little as 2 days...

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The 3 Core Steps To Treatments For Sciatica Back Pain That Work

The 3 Core Steps Of Treatments For Sciatica Back Pain That Work


In order to get long-term sciatica back pain relief, especially when its in the form of piriformis pain, you have to start with the root cause - muscle imbalances. This means you have to find the muscle imbalances that you have and then work towards correcting and improving them. You can find a clear explanation of what muscle imbalances here in Muscle Imbalance - The Secret Source Of Piriformis Pain and Sciatica Back Pain.


Don't be put off by the technical terminology; it’s not difficult to understand the foundations of the pain you’re going through. And even more importantly it’s not difficult to treat and even cure sciatica back pain. All you need is the right information (from those who know what they’re talking about) and the right methods.

So how do you do find out which muscle imbalances you have and how to work on them to eliminate your pain? There's a simple 3 step approach to doing this that has worked with every type of sciatica back pain for hundred of thousands of real people just like you. From piriformis pain to herniated disk pain, this is how to go about healing the body...


Here Are The 3 Steps To Eliminate Your Sciatica Back Pain...



Step 1: Pinpoint the Cause
You do this by finding out which condition you actually have. For example, is it piriformis pain? That means you have piriformis muscle syndrome. And you don’t even need to pay anyone to determine this - there are special "self assessments" you can learn to do yourself that will identify what’s wrong in the body causing the pain in the back-pelvis-leg region. (By the way, piriformis pain is the most common form of sciatic pain.) Then you can find out the muscle imbalances that created it and attack them directly. The simple self assessment tests for sciatica back pain I mentioned before will show you how to do this. More on that later.


Step 2: Treat the Symptoms
So you’ve done that and found out what’s painfully dysfunctional in your body. Great; there’s only one problem – you’re in so much pain you can hardly move! How are you going to implement the treatments that may potentially cure the sciatica or back pain if you're pratically crippled with agony? Obviously you have to reduce the pain way down so you can do what you have to do in the 3rd step. There are techniques that help tremendously with this kind of pain, particularly some simple but precise stretches appropriate for sciatica back pain. You can watch a video of one such stretch in my earlier post, One Of The Best Piriformis Stretches Ever For Relieving Piriformis Pain.


Step 3: Treat the Cause and Condition
First remember - pain is an illusion… :-) Just seeing if you were still paying attention. What pain really is basically is a warning signal from your body telling you that you have a problem to fix.


Now that you know what your condition is and are no longer too handicapped with pain to deal with it thanks to Steps 1 and 2, you focus now on the conditions and specific muscle imbalances causing the suffering. As you will have now realized the treatment for sciatica that's appropriate differs depending on the form of sciatica back pain we’re dealing with. Therefore you apply the appropriate treatment methods proven to take care of that problem from years of real-world chronic pain treatment by experts who have dedicated their careers to achieving pain relief for their patients.


And did I mention YOU can do all of that on your own from home?


Unfortunately this straightforward 3 step approach is not the normal course of action in typical medical treatment out there. You may have experienced this personally - and are still in pain. You MUST addresses the underlying cause of the problem the correct way, not just the symptoms - and NOT with generic exercises that may or may not be right for your specific case of sciatica back pain…


So are you sick and tired of quick fixes that fix nothing? Are ready to enjoy the same lasting sciatica back pain relief over 60,000 people in over 100 countries have gotten from one very special system?


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Maybe that’s you, too… If so then you need to take back control of your health and get started using this system right away. It was developed by a team of leading health, fitness and medical professionals and has proven to be far more effective that any other treatment approach being used today. Imagine major long-lasting relief from your back pain or sciatica potentially starting in just 2 days... 

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Stay healthy my friends,
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The 11 Commandments Of Piriformis Pain

The 11 Commandments Of  Piriformis Pain


Yesterday in my article, Muscle Imbalance - The Secret Source Of Piriformis Pain and Sciatica Back Pain I went into some depth about piriformis muscle syndrome and the most common major cause of piriformis pain - and indeed of most cases of sciatica back pain - muscle imbalances. I encourage you to read it after you've gone over the "commandments" in this article.


That discussion was a little bit technical so as to show the underlying scenarios that lead to piriformis pain. Today I want to simplify things a bit, and be a little tongue-in-cheek too, by giving you, dear reader, the "11  Commandments Of  Piriformis Pain". These are the behavior and lifestyle choices anyone suffering from piriformis pain must strongly consider doing to reduce, relieve, and prevent piriformis pain. As a bonus these tips will help with any other type of sciatica back pain as well. Everything's related. 


Don't be surprised if your piriformis pain sticks around no matter what else you do if you don't try out the advice below. So without further ado, here are The 11 Commandments Of Piriformis Pain:


1. Thou Shalt Sit Straight
One of the worst things you can do to yourself is something you possibly do all day long: Sit down. Because most people slump over into a "C"-shape when they sit and over-stress their spine. This posture normally doesn't hurt you *now*, but it's a documented fact that poor posture = Pain down the road. After years of sitting badly like this, "down the road" has come for many of us...


For more information on dealing with this, click here


2. Thou Shalt Exercise Properly
We all need to develop a balanced and stable body and it's even more urgent if you're already suffering from piriformis pain. The problem is so many of the most popular exercises out there make piriformis muscle syndrome even worse by strengthening the wrong muscle groups further, or by neglecting flexibility. The muscle imbalances that lead to the pain in the first place get reinforced and piriformis pain flares up stronger.


For more information on pain-causing muscle imbalances and how to deal with them, click here


3. Thou Shalt Drink Plenty of Water
Water is so important to humans it goes without saying. One of the most basic yet common causes of pain is dehydration. Not having enough fluid in the body to keep the body cool, the blood moving, the muscles supple, the tendons relaxed and the discs well hydrated causes pain. Drink more water - and coffee, soda and tea aren't water! They dehydrate you by themselves.


For more information on this issue, click here


4. Thou Shalt Not Tolerate Chronic Inflammation
Inflammation is a primary immune system response to an irritant. The swelling is your body's way of supplying the problem area with antibodies, fresh blood, cells, etc to begin the healing process. And it works pretty flawlessly until age 25 or so, when levels of the healing enzymes critical to controlling this process begin to decline and so inflammation starts running unchecked.


For more on how to stop excessive inflammation cold without poisoning yourself and get the enzymes you need back, click here


5. Thou Shalt Get Better Sleep
We spend about a third of our life asleep. And it's time well-spent. Sleep allows the body to heal. It's really the only time your muscles properly relax and recover. All the hormones important for healing and recovery such as human growth hormone are produced at highest levels when we sleep. A consistent lack of quality sleep means your muscles, including the piriformis muscles, don't get enough time to recuperate from the day's stress or repair any injury or imbalance. Definitely bad news for any hopes of piriformis pain relief.


To learn more on getting a good night's sleep, click here


6. Thou Shalt Change The Food Ye Eat-eth
The amount of bad inflammation inside you changes based on activity level, the amount and quality of sleep you get, your stress levels, and especially the foods you eat.  Certain foods help reduce inflammation; other foods practically light you up with inflammation. The longer your diet is dominated by inflammatory foods, the higher the risk for painful conditions. The food you eat and your piriformis muscle syndrome are linked - it is chronic inflammation of the sciatic nerve in the area where the piriformis interferes with it that creates the pain. The worse your diet the easier it is for this inflammation to happen and for the "fire" to keep going.


To discover some powerful inflammation-fighting foods, click here


7. Thou Shalt Not Wear Heel Lifts
Leg-length discrepancies are often caused by our habitual posture; how we stand. Women who always carry babies on one hip, for example, can create discrepancies. Our pelvic muscles are conditioned by our constant habit patterns of posture and movement. The muscle interactions involved are very specific to each condition and each individual. If you don't know exactly what YOUR physical problem is - whether it's actually piriformis muscle syndrome or a herniated disc instead for example - you just can't know exactly what to do to correct it. Heel lifts can help but do not treat the underlying problem.


For more explanation on a better alternative to lifts, click here


8. Thou Shalt Relax Thy Mind Regularly
If you have used mainstream medicine, physical therapy, massage, chiropractic, acupuncture, surgery... and are still in pain... consider the possibility that the mind via negative emotions and thoughts and mental stress may be playing a powerful role in making your condition resist treatment...


For some great tips on this, scroll down and check out the articles in the "Mind-Body" category when you click here


9. Thou Shalt Seek The CAUSE Of Your Pain, Not Get Stuck On A Diagnosis
Once you have a diagnosis don't believe you necessarily have to cure your labeled condition directly to be pain free. Studies prove you can have a diagnosis and not have pain. You see, there's a "hidden cause" to the pain and it's something very few healthcare professionals know about. Piriformis muscle syndrome is a condition name for the symptoms experienced - the real question is what's causing it?


For more on this topic, click here


10. Thou Shalt Get Educated
Never stop educating yourself about how to achieve peak pain free health and wellness. You may have come to realize that the name of what you have is "piriformis pain" due to "piriformis muscle syndrome" and that is useful. But the best road to recovery is educating yourself about the whole range of sciatica back pain that exists and acting from that knowledge.


For more education on pain relief in every area, click here


11. Thou Shalt Get Guidance From Experts With A Track Record Of Success
This is ultimately the most important "commandment" of all. After all, odds are piriformis pain relief isn't exactly the area of expertise any of us here studied in school or have worked in. Popping some liver-rotting painkillers is about all most of us are ever taught to use. Not knowing how to deal with piriformis pain is normal as it is not a simple issue. Learning from someone who's made helping people with all types of piriformis pain, sciatica, back pain, leg pain and more his life's work only makes sense...


For more information *that works* from someone who has actually helped thousands of people eliminate piriformis pain, click here


I hope you'll do your best to "obey" these "commandments" or show a loved one who is suffering this article. Following the guidelines above will lead you to the specific combination of actions and changes that will free you of the piriformis pain or sciatica you endure, I have no doubt. Get educated and find what works, if you'll work it.


Stay healthy my friends,
Jevaughn Brown

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Muscle Imbalance - The Secret Source Of Piriformis Pain and Sciatica Back Pain

Muscle Imbalance - The Secret Source Of Piriformis Pain and Sciatica Back Pain

I have a question for you… Did any of the healthcare providers you went to in the past or are visiting now to help you deal with your piriformis pain check you for muscle imbalances? …My crystal ball here is telling me the answer is “No. What’s a muscle imbalance anyway? Nobody ever mentioned anything like that.” And therein lies both the problem and the solution you’re looking for. Let us look a little deeper into this condition…

As I discussed in my article Piriformis Pain and Piriformis Muscle Syndrome: Get The Facts Behind the Suffering, Piriformis Muscle Syndrome occurs when the piriformis muscle is displaced from its proper position such that it starts exerting excessive pressure on the sciatic nerve. The Sciatic Nerve is the largest nerve in the body and it is made up of nerves branching out from several vertebrae of the spine bundled together, and then descends down the back of the thigh.   This happens various ways, commonly through the muscle being overstressed and becoming inflamed and this inflammation state causes the pressure. The muscle might even be physically shifted into a unhealthy position as well for one reason or the other. The piriformis muscle is responsible for moving your leg so your feet point outward, i.e. rotating your thigh at the hip, so it is near the sciatic nerve. The pressure involved in piriformis muscle syndrome irritates the nerve and leads to inflammation in the area, giving rise to piriformis pain.

Obviously the piriformis muscle is not normally in a state where it inflames the sciatic nerve. So the real question we should be asking is, how did this situation come about? What created your piriformis muscle syndrome? This is where muscle imbalances come into the picture…

What In The World IS a Muscle Imbalance?
A muscle imbalance is when one muscle overpowers the opposing muscle or when there is a difference in flexibility of opposing muscles; or a combination of both strength and flexibility differences.

When your muscles are out of balance with each other they pull your bones and joints out of their correct position and this puts your other muscles, bones and joints under constant stress and uneven pressure... The body works as a whole thus muscle imbalances in one area can start a chain of reactions that disturbs the tissues in that body area - or even in another area seemingly nowhere near the actual muscle imbalance.

For example, the proper position of your hips and curvature of your spine are determined by numerous muscles and whether they are balanced with each other or not... There are over 640 muscles in the human body and everything we do affects them, from sitting too much to playing our favorite sports.  The lower body is particularly susceptible.

Almost All Cases Of Sciatica Back Pain Have Muscle Imbalances As The Main Cause Of The Pressure Being Placed On The Sciatic Nerve 
Specifically, piriformis pain is the most common manifestation of this distortion in the natural structural alignment of the body in the region of the sciatic nerve. Muscle Imbalance develop either through a traumatic event, or through a long process of lifestyle choices (habits of movement or inactivity), or a combination of both. For many people it's a gradual development of the muscle imbalance in your hip due to your everyday activities and the rise of the awful symptoms as a result. Over time that muscle gets tight from the positions you put yourself in plus it weakens from lack of use.

Let me give you some examples of what I mean:
1. If you sit on the edge of your chair with your legs apart and your feet pointing outward then you're keeping your piriformis muscle in a shortened position - This makes it tighten up gradually and if you do that all the time then it also weakens from lack of use. Voila: muscle imbalance!

2. On the other side of the spectrum, runners and bikers aren't sedentary but they often fail to maintain a strength vs. stretch balance in their workouts. This causes muscle imbalance because their piriformis muscle shortens and gets tight as it becomes stronger from the exercise, overpowering other muscles in the hip region. This leads - you guessed it - to an irritated sciatic nerve creating piriformis pain.

Many of us are sedentary or tend to be if we don't watch ourselves, Many of us are/have become exercise fanatics - and many of us are somewhere in between at any given time. Whether you're a runner or a keyboard athlete :-)  or neither, I'll bet you have muscle imbalances that are causing your piriformis pain too.

So... How DO You Get Rid Of Your Piriformis Pain? 
Since muscle imbalances are usually the culprit start by working on correcting any muscle imbalance you have, and you should start feeling pain relief immediately.... You can start with regular practice of a simple focused piriformis stretch for a few weeks such as the one you can watch and follow along with in my article, One Of The Best Piriformis Stretches Ever For Relieving Piriformis Pain.

Will learning one new stretch be enough? It very well may be. However depending on how severe your condition you may need to do more. For example don't sit in the way described above; do exercises/sports  like tennis, rollerblading, basketball, etc that involve a wide range of motion in your hips. More directly, corrective exercises tailored to your specific situation to correct your muscle imbalances are likely necessary.

Learn as much as you can about your condition, so that you can ask the tough questions to your healthcare providers and get the best care possible.... But realize that your well-meaning local pain specialist may not have gotten any education on sciatica or sub-forms of it like piriformis muscle syndrome. This is one of those cases that emphasizes the fact that your own health is always ultimately in your own hands.

And in that spirit of knowing the facts and helping your own self, I sincerely suggest and recommend you get a copy of the Free book, The 7-Day Back Pain Cure: How Thousands of People Got Relief Without Doctors, Drugs or Surgery written by Jesse Cannone CPT, CPRS. He's been a featured guest on NBC and co-founded The Healthy Back Institute. In it he covers everything from all the true causes of sciatica back pain, to how to do accurate self-diagnosis, to a whole range of easy-to-do treatment methods that you tailor to your personal needs. The "secrets", the expert knowledge in this book has allowed literally tens of thousands of people over the years to cure themselves of every back pain and sciatica condition especially piriformis pain. And did I mention it's for FREE? 

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Stay healthy my friends,
Jevaughn Brown

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One Of The Best Piriformis Stretches Ever For Relieving Piriformis Pain

One Of The Best Piriformis Stretches Ever For Relieving Piriformis Pain

Looking for an easy piriformis stretch that will knock-out your pain within a few days and starts helping instantly? If you do endure persistent piriformis pain, then of course you are! Yesterday in Piriformis Pain and Piriformis Muscle Syndrome: Get The Facts Behind the Suffering I started off with a quick explanation of the origin of piriformis muscle syndrome. Today I want to cut right to the chase and show you a “quick fix” exercise that’s a real fix for piriformis pain, known to have worked wonders for many thousands of people all over the world.

This piriformis stretch, done daily, will get the pain under control and stop the muscle spasms that magnify the hurt. As you know, piriformis pain comes under the broad heading of sciatica and is the most common form of sciatica back pain. The video you’re about to watch shows one of the best piriformis stretches/sciatica stretches out there and it works for other forms of sciatica as well. It is demonstrated by world-renowned sciatica back pain expert and co-founder of The Healthy Back Institute, Jesse Cannone. Check it out:

As you just saw, you can easily do these piriformis stretches anywhere you can comfortably lie down. Ideally use a supportive mat or do them on a carpet for comfort. Fit the stretches into your day at home, at the gym - heck, somewhere in the office if you can get away with it. :-) Even if you’re traveling there’s enough space in any hotel room to do this stretch. Start slow, maintain good form, and above all listen to your body – it will tell you what pace to go at.

Of course, a piriformis stretch like this treats the symptoms (pain and inflexibility), not the cause(s) directly. It helps greatly so we’re not in debilitating pain anymore and can go about our day normally. But to stop the pain from coming back; to heal piriformis muscle syndrome, requires more. That’s why the name of this site is “Your Source for Back Pain Relief & Sciatica Relief Techniques That WORK”. We need MORE than just 1 quick stretch to get rid of the cause of piriformis pain, regardless of how well that stretch might work. Do you want MORE? Do you need to finally get lasting piriformis pain relief? Do you want proven, documented treatments for sciatica? Then I recommend you go get a F-r-e-e Copy of the new book The 7-Day Back Pain Cure by the same expert you just watched.

I've been going through it and sharing it with family members too. I'm convinced it really is the piriformis pain, sciatic pain, and back pain relief solution millions are searching for. And when you find something good, I feel you have a responsibility to tell people about it and point them to the help they need. This free book reveals  easy straightforward ways to wipe out piriformis pain from the comfort of your own home. No one else you have to pay required. 

I suggest you claim a copy for yourself now while you still can; no telling when Mr. Cannone will come to his senses and stop giving away his best work for FREE. Just pay the small shipping and handling fee for it to get to your door – and even that all goes to charity! 

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Stay healthy my friends,
Jevaughn Brown
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P.P.S. Make sure to try those stretches - They'll work if you work them...