Showing posts with label treatment for back pain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label treatment for back pain. Show all posts

September 20, 2011

Do You Buy Painkillers Among the Most Dangerous to Take? Discover the Worst and the Best Painkillers


I’m all about finding pain relief solutions that work and sharing them on this site. The real key is always to find the root cause of the pain and correct that. Sometimes the problem is structural such as muscle imbalances in the case of piriformis pain. But at the cellular level there's always inflammation and the production of certain chemicals underneath every pain condition. So we actually buy painkillers to relieve pain by reducing these body chemicals (hopefully just until we’ve eliminated the root cause.) 

But did you know that you might be risking your life every time you buy painkillers over-the-counter or by prescription and take them? During my research recently, I found an article that you absolutely must read ASAP if you or a loved one are using any type of painkiller.

The article reveals the 5 most dangerous painkillers.<--- Click Here

Advil, Aleve, Bayer, Celebrex, Demerol, Motrin, Naproxen, Oxycontin, Percocet, Tylenol, Ultram, Vicodin... We buy painkillers like these and more because they are the household names we grew up with or keep seeing marketed to us on TV…

...but which ones - if any - are truly the best painkillers to take, and which can not only be harmful, but deadly?

The 5 Most Dangerous Painkillers...<--- Click Here

Constipation... Dizziness... Drowsiness... Headache... Heart Attack... Internal Bleeding... Liver Failure... Nausea... Stroke... Vomiting...

Some of the best-selling painkillers on the market are not actually the best painkillers out there. One study estimated over 16,500 people die each year from drugs like those I just listed. Another found that people are 3.4 times more likely to have a heart attack while taking one popular painkiller at the recommended dose!

So how are we supposed to deal with pain effectively if to buy painkillers advertised as being the best painkillers is to put your health, or even your life, in jeopardy? If so many popular pain drugs are scientifically proven to NOT be safe, what ARE the best painkillers?

Find out all the shocking details now; the good, the bad and the deadly, in this eye-opening article on the 5 most dangerous painkillers.

Plus you'll find out what the non-toxic alternatives proven to be as or more effective than them are at the end.

If you value your health and the health of your loved ones more than anything – and I know you do if you’ve read this far – please read this exposé as soon as you can.

Stay healthy my friends,
Jevaughn Brown

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September 18, 2011

Can Chiropractic Care Alone Stop Piriformis Pain and Sciatic Pain?


Imagine you said “no thanks” to taking the unavoidable risks of going under the knife. Instead, you opted for consulting a chiropractor to deal with your back pain or piriformis pain, thinking that at least these guys won’t want to do surgery on me to fix my sciatica. Is chiropractic care really going to turn out to be the solution you're looking for? You're about to find out...

Chiropractors work on the spine and the soft tissue around it. They believe that if you’re in pain that it stems from a misalignment of some sort in the spinal area. This misalignment in their view blocks or affects signals from the brain conducted by the major nerves coming out of the spine; for example by vertebrae pinching a nerve. This interference causes pain and other problems since the nervous system controls the functioning of the body. Therefore their answer is to expertly manipulate the spine to correct its alignment and thus allow nerve signals to flow freely and normally which should eliminate the pain.

If you’re suffering from nerve-based pain, as is obviously the case with sciatica, this approach may indeed work. But not always - the devil is in the details. If the painful nerve irritation (due to it being squeezed, pinched or inflamed) is occurring somewhere other than at the spine, then aligning the spine may not help since the pain source is not in that region. Specifically, this is the problem with using chiropractic treatments on piriformis pain - piriformis pain occurs due to piriformis syndrome where the piriformis, a muscle in the pelvis, becomes misaligned (for various possible reasons) and puts pressure on the sciatic nerve as it passes by it. You see, spinal issues such as a herniated disc are not the only causes of sciatica and back pain, therefore treatments targeting the spine only miss the mark in many cases.

We have to ask the right questions to find the right answers. And the question to always ask when faced with chronic back pain, piriformis pain, and other manifestations of sciatica is “What is the CAUSE of my pain?” “If the chiropractic adjustments aren’t working, is the problem really my spine?” “Could it actually be my piriformis muscle, or somewhere else?
Chiropractic treatment is good for nerve-based back pain IF the problem's rooted in the spine. An even better question is, “WHY is my spine becoming misaligned?” And the answer to that one is: muscle imbalances. You’ll find a detailed explanation of what they are in Muscle Imbalance - The Secret Source Of Piriformis Pain and Sciatica Back Pain

Muscle imbalances are what make your muscles pull your spine out of alignment by exerting unequal pressure along the length of the spine. Because of this realigning the spine only works for 12-48 hours or so – until the imbalanced muscles shift the spine again in the same way as before, restarting the pain. The spine is the victim, not the perpetrator so to speak. Chiropractic care does not address this problem directly. So it works only eventually: given 2 to 4 months of treatment, about 3 times a week, assuming your insurance doesn’t run out before then...

If this seems to be an incomplete solution to you, you’re not alone; it does to me too. Quality chiropractic care clearly is on the right track though when it's applicable – What is missing is a systematic way to find and correct the muscle imbalance that's creating the spinal problem that is creating the nerve pain. This is where Muscle-Balance Therapy comes in. Combined with chiropractic work it is a very effective approach to treating sciatica and back pain caused by vertebrae interfering with nerves. Chiropractic treatments get your spine into alignment, and Muscle-Balance Therapy keeps it there, reducing the number of treatments needed and the likelihood of the pain coming back. Without correcting the muscle imbalances at the same time, chiropractic care ends up being an expensive 24–48 hours of relief a pop. And that’s only if the pain is based in the spine. One of the most common cases of sciatica is piriformis pain, and as the name suggests, the condition behind it - piriformis muscle syndrome - will respond to Muscle-Balance Therapy, rather than to spinal adjustments alone.

Unfortunately, there are few chiropractors out there who are even aware of how muscle imbalances work in depth, let alone are trained in fixing them, so you’re unlikely to find such an advanced practitioner in your area. You will need to do additional treatments dealing with your muscle imbalances to achieve permanent pain relief.

If you want to know more about what it is and how Muscle-Balance Therapy may be your ticket out of a world of pain, click here...



Stay healthy my friends,
Jevaughn Brown
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September 15, 2011

Is Your Job Killing Your Back, Butt or Both?

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...
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Stay healthy my friends,
Jevaughn Brown
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