Back Pain Treatment

Now I know you may have spent countless hours (probably more when you were younger) doing abdominal exercises. From crunches to knee lifts, endless sit-ups to many so called miracle ways to get wash-board abs. But you still suffer from lower back pain.

Well I have some good news and some great news

To strengthen your abdominals you don't need to do sit-ups again or crunches and that is the good news. The great news is you can stimulate your abdominal muscles in just a few minutes. You see, there is a reflex point on your inner thigh that stimulates the nerve and blood supply to your abdominal muscles. If you rub this is a certain way, you increase their strength.

Wait a minute

Do not think you will get wash-board abdominals from doing this. This is a way to increase their functional strength, so your lower back pain disappears. That is what you want after all, isn't it. You also want to be able to get back to the gym, do all the sit-ups, crunches; knee lifts etc and get those abdominals back. Which will happen faster if the nerve and blood supply is working perfectly.

If you are asking why your abdominals is one of the biggest causes of your lower back pain, the answer is simple Your abdominal muscles help support the pelvis. If they weaken then your curve in the lower back increases (a sway back), which then irritates the lower back joints. The muscles around the joints then become tight and suddenly you have that situation where your lower back is ready to blow.

You lift up a chair, bend over to grab an object, wrestle with your children or just get out of bed, and then lower back pain grabs you. You now a part of the statistics 80% of all adults suffer from lower back pain at some stage it is now affecting you 100% though.

There is hope for you, there is a solution, and if you stimulate your abdominals then lower back pain can disappear. Especially if you combine it with stretching the other major cause and if you learn to re-balance your pelvis and lower back (the major causes of lower back pain).

Have you just realized I said at the start the two biggest culprits that cause lower back pain are your abdominals and hip flexors. Yet you didn't hear a word mentioned on the hip flexors, did you. This is the next article that is coming soon, so watch out for your next solution to lower back pain.

Can you imagine being able to get out of bed in the morning feeling 100%, yes no more lower back pain to hold you back. Just think of all the things you could do again once your lower back pain had vanished. You would have time to read more.
As I was saying, imagine being free of lower back pain. Being able to go to work pain free, come home pain free, and enjoy life without lower back pain. It is simple and you can have this seemingly unavailable dream.

Firstly you have corrected those pesky weak abdominal muscles, and now you need to release those persistent tight hip flexor muscles. After all they are just as much a cause of your lower back pain as your weak abdominal muscles.

If you don't want to know why these tight muscles cause lower back pain, just skip the next paragraph or two and go straight to how to release them.

The hip flexor muscles attach into the front of your lower spine and then reattach in your hip (where your leg attaches to your pelvis not the area you call your hip in the side of your lower back). If they tighten they increase the curve of your lower back. This places pressure on your spine and then leads to lower back pain.

The hip flexor muscles are commonly irritated by a few things  performing sit-ups wrong is a good one, especially if you have been doing thousands of them in your aim to get those wash-board abdominals or to remove lower back pain. Sitting too long allows them to contract and shorten, which is the biggest cause today. Most of you reading this are sitting down and possibly have spent a few hours searching the internet already.

The way to release them is easy though. No doubt you will have come across many hip flexor stretches before. You now are sitting in hope that I am going to give you a miracle stretch to remove your tight hip flexors once and for ever. But I'm not.

In fact the way to stretch the hip flexors is the same as always. You kneel on the ground, keep your back straight, have the front leg bent with the foot flat on the ground, and then move your pelvis forward so that you stretch the hip flexor of the back leg. Simple, you see these all the time.

The miracle part is when to stretch.

When you stretch, your aim is to release the tight muscle, and most of all keep it relaxed all the time. This way your lower back pain will ease and disappear. To achieve this you need to stretch three times each day.

When you wake up, once in the day and just before bed. The night time stretch is the most important as you stretch then relax the muscle by sleeping. This is the ideal way to train your muscle to stay relaxed. The other most important aspect is how to stretch.

Knowing what to stretch is essential, knowing when to stretch is imperative; knowing how to stretch is the fail-safe.

You are most likely reading this with lower back pain. You want to be able to get out of your chair and enjoy life, free of