Denver Back Pain Health Center

1. Practice good posture – One of the most basic ways to decrease the likelihood of your low back pain from coming back is simply by training your muscles in good posture. This gives your spine the most balance and strongest foundation against gravity so that you have less compensation in your muscles and decreased degeneration in your spine. The easiest way to establish good posture is to stand with your back against a wall and your feet about 2-3 inches from the wall. Straighten up your spine so that your buttocks, shoulders, and head are all touching the wall. Make sure that your head is not tilted back, but rather retracted back to reach the wall. Stand in this posture for a few seconds and then without breaking it, in a relaxed way take a few steps off the wall while continuing to hold your correct posture. Practice this so that you no longer have to think about perfect posture, but that your body automatically holds it over time.
2. Strengthen your core – You have tiny muscles all the way up your spine on and around each spinal vertebra. These small muscles are used for stabilizing your spine. When you have chronic low back pain, oftentimes these muscles are asymmetrical or atrophied enough to where they do not provide enough stabilization and other muscles have to compensate for them. These other muscles do not fire as quickly, or brace as effectively and therefore open you up to injury of your low back.In order to retrain these stabilizers, you need to strengthen your core muscles.In the past a lot of emphasis has been placed on the abdominals as the most important core muscles. However in more recent research, it has been found that we should really be focusing on those tiny, intrinsic back muscles. Ask your chiropractor about core strengthening exercises that you can do to start eliminating your chances of re-injury.
3. Get checked by your chiropractor – Chiropractic adjustments break up scar tissue, increase motion, and reduce pain. They also reset the neurology between your brain and your muscles so that you do not develop abnormal muscle firing. Your chiropractor is also a great resource to check out your posture and give you posture tips.

   Get checked by your chiropractor – Chiropractic adjustments break up scar tissue, increase motion, and reduce pain. They also reset the neurology between your brain and your muscles so that you do not develop abnormal muscle firing. Your chiropractor is also a great resource to check out your posture and give you posture tips.

Most low back pain is non-specific and not from one single cause. It is a process that happens over time. So when you start implementing these tips, they may take time to start working. However, the long term goal is for fewer recurrences of your back pain, right? Be patient, correct the cause and your body will take care of the rest!

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