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Why Do the Same Back Problems Keep Coming Back Over and Over Again?

When I first started the practice I thought every single case was completely different but after a while I started to see a pattern in types of back problems.

I realized that one could break down most back problems into two very different categories: The fast injuries and the slow ones -

Some people’s back problems were due to a sudden injury such as they wrecked a car. Maybe she pulled her back out making the bed. Maybe he lifted a large plank and herniated a disc. Maybe he slipped and fell on the ice. All are fast or "sudden onset". They heal just like a cut finger or a broken bone heals.

Then there is the much larger group of injuries which are slow or gradual in onset. These are the back injuries that occur as a result of sedentary postures - while simply sitting on the couch watching the ball game, sleeping on too soft of a bed - night in / night out for 30 years, sleeping in a fetal position or in a semi-crawl position with one leg extended straight and the other dragged up and to the side. Maybe it is the way she sits at the computer. These don’t heal completely because we keep doing the same sedentary postures over and over ...everyday.

The irony is most "slow" injuries do not hurt when they occur or you would stop doing it, right? BTW, most sudden injuries don’t hurt, when they occur either- you’re in shock and don’t feel much of anything.

The pain comes later... With slow injuries you could sit and watch the entire game and feel fine. Then, when you get up in the morning you don’t feel quite so fine anymore.

That’s when you feel the damage you caused sitting on that couch the night before.

Back problems do not attack you for no reason at all, but because of something you’re doing.

Clearly, most people don’t go around wrecking their car every day or making the bed wrong or even picking up heavy loads incorrectly every day - so the fast injuries are not the big issue here.

It’s the sedentary posture habits that cause the problems that keep coming back over and over again. Poor sedentary posture habits weaken and de-stabilize one joint or another and once that happens - it will always be lying there dormant and "quiet" - and waiting to ruin your day - ...because it can.

It can because it has lost it’s structural integrity and stability.

There’s plenty you can do to strengthen and re-stabilize your back so this doesn’t happen. And it’s not expensive or even time consuming.

If one were to take a pro-active approach and engage in a maintenance program of care, your back would more than likely never let you know it’s there.

A simple maintenance program might consist of 1, maybe 2 times per month - You come in, get checked for any imbalances, you get adjusted;

1 -2 -3 and you’re done

Do that and you will likely never feel your back problem.

One hidden perk to it all: You will also likely go thru the entire winter without getting a cold or anything else going around town.

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How...or When Did That Cold Really Start?

Often, when someone comes down with the flu or a bad cold or they have a heart attack or develop cancer - they will say that they were fine just before it started.

How many think their disease is an isolated thing or entity, that just started... this morning?

           Many also think they caught it from so & so who used their phone or coughed in her direction...

 Here’s a crazy idea - nothing started this morning except breakfast.

And nobody gives you a cold - you catch a cold because you’re receptive to it.

When you first begin to notice you’re getting a cold....you’ve actually been "starting" to get it for about 3 weeks. And that’s one of the fastest things you can catch.

If you have a heart attack this morning you‘ve been working on it for years.

If you are diagnosed with cancer this afternoon - it didn’t start with at that one cigarette you had this morning with your coffee.

Try to view the "cold", the illness or disease as the culmination of events. It is the end result of a cascade of events in which you are actually losing your balance.

Just as when you fall off a ledge, you aren’t "suffering" from any "loss" of balance...well, not until you (stop), ie.: hit the bottom. Notice - there are no symptoms in midair...

While you are actually going through the experience of losing your balance - you don’t feel it until you hit the bottom.

And, likewise, you don’t feel the result of losing your balance in health until you begin to have symptoms.

You don't catch things (and get the symptoms of it ) until you have already lost your balance. And it's only when you lose your balance that you’re receptive to whatever is going around.

If you’re in balance it is much, much harder to catch anything.

So you can't blame someone else who coughed on you for giving you their cold. If you didn't lose or balance...it wouldn't matter even if she kissed you   

Some key ways to maintain your balance:

* Have your spine checked and adjusted to maintain proper spinal alignment & balance / good nerve function - without proper nerve function no organ, gland or muscle can work properly

* Reduce your stress levels. Stress exhausts your body's ability to maintain its balance. Getting your       spine adjusted greatly reduces the effect stress has on your body and your health in general    

* Maintain proper hydration - The body cannot work properly without proper hydration

* Maintain a well-proportioned nutritional diet - The body needs the right kind of fuel to operate

* Maintain proper body temperature. We are warm-blooded creatures which means we can keep ourselves warm - but not indefinitely. After a period of time at low temperatures we become hypothermic and this will exhaust the body’s ability to maintain itself. In other words - it will lose its balance

* The body requires sufficient rest . Without rest, in time, it will lose its balance.

* Clean, un-polluted air - without clean air to breathe the body will soon lose its balance.