Contents

BACKACHE

Owen Jones

Table of Contents

How Back Pain Starts

Back Pain And Its Diagnosis

Learning How To Relieve Your Back Pain

Self-Regulating Office Chairs

Aches And Pains - Five Top Tips

Preventing Back Injury

Exercise Will Help Cure Back Pain

Shoes And Back Pain

Thai Massage

Sports Injuries And Back Pain

The Dangers Of Lower Side Back Pain

Weight Loss And Back Pain

Some Thoughts On Memory Foam Products

Treating Common Back Pain

Stretching Techniques To Avoid Back Pain

Back Pain And Emotions

Setting Yourself Up for Back Pain

Backache Is Preventable

BACKACHE

…and how to deal with it!

by

Owen Jones

Published by

Megan Publishing Services

https://meganthemisconception.com

Copyright Owen Jones 2021 ©

Hello and thank you for buying this ebook about how to deal with backache, which has become one of the most pervasive of all ailments on a worldwide basis. This is a shame since backache that has not been caused by single impact trauma is largely preventable, as it is the result of ignorance.

Backache has been given status as a watchword for scammer, since it is so difficult to disprove that some people have used it as an excuse for time off work, when they were really quite fit. This is a shame, since it tarnishes all true sufferers of back pain with the slur or malingerer.

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.

The information in this ebook on how to cure backache and related subjects is organized into 18 chapters of about 500-600 words each.

As an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own blogs and newsletter, although it is better if you rewrite them in your own words first.

If you have any feedback, please leave it with the company you bought this book from.

Thanks again for purchasing this ebook,

Regards,

Owen Jones

Table of Contents

How Back Pain Starts

Back Pain and Its Diagnosis

Learning How to Relieve Your Back Pain

Self-Regulating Office Chairs

Aches and Pains - Five Top Tips

Preventing Back Injury

Exercise Will Help Cure Back Pain

Shoes and Back Pain

Thai Massage

Sports Injuries and Back Pain

The Dangers of Lower Side Back Pain

Weight Loss and Back Pain

Some Thoughts on Memory Foam Products

Treating Common Back Pain

Stretching Techniques to Avoid Back Pain

Back Pain And Emotions

Setting Yourself Up for Back Pain

Backache Is Preventable

How Back Pain Starts

Back ache may start from apparently very insignificant origins and it may come from significant trauma. People ought to be made to be aware that small things could lead to years of backache and maybe early retirement.

In my instance, my wife and I were visiting a friend of hers and she offered to give me a massage. My wife agreed because of their friendship and because her friend had studied as a masseuse ten years beforehand.

The massage went well and she kept asking me whether she was hurting me. She was not, so I said no. She stood on the back of my thighs and asked again. I said no. She said that she had never massaged a white man before and that my muscles were heavier than she was used to.

So, she started striking the back of my left thigh with her heel. Again she asked if it hurt. It did not. Anyway, she completed the massage and we all had a nice evening. The next day, my left thigh was sore and I had to limp a little. This lasted a couple of days and then disappeared.

A week later, I could hardly walk, limping badly on my left leg. That lasted a month and then my lowest disc slipped out of position. I am still suffering from a slipped or herniated disc as a result of a month of bad posture which was the result of a free massage.

That is how easily it can happen. You do something daft like wearing tight shoes; you acquire a limp and the limp so alters your stance that it throws your back out. If I had known then what I know now, I would not have limped about for a month, I would have rested up.

Take my instance as a significant warning, you can acquire permanent back ache from the stupidest of reasons. A friend of mine has had back pain for thirty years and he remembers the day it happened. He was in the bathroom and twisted to his right to reach for the toilet paper.

Bang! Thirty years of back ache and early retirement.

Be very wary of lifting, pushing and manoeuvring things in general. If your job involves physical work, make sure that your employer or supervisor shows you the safest ways of doing so. Be certain that you use the same ways at home in your private life.

A last suggestion is to remember that we are living longer than ever before, but that means that bones have been wearing out for longer. Bear that in mind, if you are getting on. You may no longer be able to do what you could do just 10 years ago even if you are healthy.

Help your body live longer without injury by exercising it and giving it at least the recommended daily amounts (RDA) of vitamins that it needs to replenish itself.

Back Pain And Its Diagnosis

Back pain is a massive topic in medical terms which makes back pain and its diagnosis very difficult. It is simple to blame your GP for not knowing a lot about your back pain, but the fact is that you are in a better place to understand why you have pain in your back that they do.

This is because backache that is not congenital or due to a specific accident, illness or series of medications is normally due to bad posture and that means lifestyle alterations.

For instance, I am heavy and have just started having back pain. My doctor could see my size and suggested that I lose weight. We all know that that is not going to happen over night and so did he, so he gave me a prescription for 20 tablets a day and his assistant gave me a massage and an jab in the posterior.

I waited and waited until the tablets ran out and I was no better. It would have been simple to say that the physician was of no use and, to be honest, his quick fix remedies were useless, but his advice was spot on. I lost eight kilos (20 pounds) during a week or so and could stand up straight again.

Now, I still have back pain, but I know that I can afford to lose another 20 pounds, although the actual need - the debilitating twenty-four hour pain - has passed, which will make it harder for me to concentrate on losing more weight.

That is not the GP’s fault, it is mine.

We live in a culture where we expect a tablet to cure us and some doctors pander to this culture (like mine did). Unfortunately, fifteen minutes with the physician and a handful of pills will not cure all our ills. Sometimes, we have to comprehend that we are our own worst enemies and hold our hands up.

This is not to say that GP’s are always right. I have a friend who has had incapacitating back pain for thirty years and had to give up work early. His wife left him too because she could no longer cope. He sits at home alone most days very lonely.

When I told him that I had gotten relief from massage, he told me that his physician had told him 20 years ago that neither massage nor acupuncture could help him, so he has never tried them.

You could say that my friend ought to have tried them anyway and I would agree with you, but he believed, and still believes, his doctor.

It is a real shame if people close their minds off to ideas that they know too little of so they are not able to make a sensible decision. It has cost my friend 30 years of mobility and his best friend.

Bob Dylan said it best when he said:

‘Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don’t criticize

What you can’t understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is

Rapidly agin’.

Please get out of the new one

If you can’t lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin’

There is a lesson there for many of us, I think.

Learning How To Relieve Your Back Pain

Millions, and normally tens of millions of people in every country suffer from back pain and many of them get insufficient help. It appears that it is treated nonchalantly because it is so common, but the fact is that it is very difficult to deal with. There are so many causes of back pain and the cause of a person’s back pain might not be instantly apparent.

The source could be one event like lifting a heavy object yesterday, but usually back pain is the result of bad posture for years, which is why tracking down the origin is so hard. With so little effective support, it is scarcely surprising that numerous individuals turn to drugs (both legal and illegal) and alcohol. However, drugs and alcohol can only ever supply temporary relief - once the effects wear off the next day, the pain and discomfort will return.

Very often, backache starts in the lower back and the most common cause of it is bad posture and shortage of exercise. The bad posture could come from a personal idiosyncrasy of favouring one side of your body like always resting your weight on your right buttock and leaning on your right elbow while watching TV or just sitting for too long without moving far as a result of driving for a living or sitting at a desk all day.

However, bad posture can also be the result of trauma or being overweight. Finding out why they have back pain and what they can do about it becomes a pastime for many people with back pain particularly nowadays when computers and the Internet make research far easier.

You could always hope that it simply goes away, obviously, and it often does. It can simply clear up and go away one morning as mysteriously as it came, but most people find that it merely stays there gnawing away at them with a continuous dull ache interspersed with flashes of sharp pain

So in order to begin learning how to relieve your back pain, you have to discover the cause of it. If the cause is genetic or due to trauma or illness, you will obviously require professional help, but if they are the causes, you are almost certainly getting it already. For the remainder of us, it is time for some hard thought and honest decision-making.

Being overweight is a big difficulty nowadays and it is also a major cause of backache or a weak back which may lead to injury. So, if you are overweight, lose it or at least much of it. That could cure your back pain in weeks. If you are overweight because you eat or drink too much, you will need to exercise more or cut down.

Exercising a lot with a bad back can be really a problem, so most individuals will have to cut down and increase the amount of exercise they do slowly. Whilst you are attempting to build this new body, try also to lay off the painkillers, because then you will be in a better position to judge how effective your actions are.

Drugs and alcohol can lead to addiction as well and there is no point swapping a bad back, which is not life-threatening for internal organ damage which is.

Self-Regulating Office Chairs

People who work in offices often spend many hours a day sitting at their desks, those same people, together with people who do not work in an office, then sometimes go home after work and use a home office or surf the Internet for hours.

It is the same story with children. This might add up to a lot of bad posture and a lot of bad backs in the near future, especially among today’s children, whose bones are still developing and growing.

The fact is just that many chairs used for office work are either unsuitable or the people who make use of them do not know how essential it is to adjust their chair to suit their body shape. A good chair, a proper, ergonomic chair, will virtually force you to take on a good posture, which will greatly reduce the likelihood of you receiving an industrial injury. And a bad back caused by an ill-fitting chair would be a work related injury, although it may be deemed self-inflicted.

The majority of chairs have to be manually altered to suit one’s body, which is all very well if you know what the ideal settings ought to be. If you do not well, you could ask your supervisor to see the health and safety representative.

If you work from home, you are on your own. Well, let us put it this way, it is up to you to acquire the information and apply it yourself. The information is on the Internet. However, you could do away with all that and get a chair that automatically suits itself to whoever is sitting down in it.

Sounds great, does it not? Very futuristic! In fact, the technology is already here and one of the chairs that has it built in is the Sum chair made by Allsteel. It has won several prestigious awards for its innovative design and ease of use. The chair boasts an automatically, self-adjusting system called AutoFit. AutoFit is responsible for supplying full support for your back by responding to your sitting position