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Neuromuscular Trigger Point Massage in Los Angeles: Learn the History About Neuromuscular Massage Therapy (NMT).

In the 1930’s Dr. Stanley Lief, a trained Chiropractor and Naturopathic Physician along with his cousin Boris Chaitow also trained in chiropractic and naturopathy experimented with neuromuscular massage treatments for muscular pain at Leif’s world-famous health resort in Hertfordshire, England. The treatment was so successful that their neuromuscular massage technique became common practice in osteopathic and sports therapy venues all over Europe. Over the next several decades, two American Doctors, Dr. Janet Travell and Dr. David Simons, published a two volume set of textbooks titled “The Trigger Point Manual on Upper Body and Lower Body Pain” that identified with documentation, research, and references that the Source of most pain is “knots” in your muscles. A whole new field of study for chronic pain was introduced to the medical, dental, massage, and therapeutic communities called-Neuromuscular Therapy. Call today and request Neuromuscular Massage for longer lasting relief!

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– Genevieve Land

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Do you sit all day with your “perfect” chair and still suffer from lower back pain?  Sitting is one of the biggest culprits to lower back, hip, knee and all sorts of chronic pain.  As human beings, your  body’s design and “blueprint” is for motion, whether for walking, running, even skipping.  It’s amazing to imagine how the desk job has only existed for a “blink of the eye” compared to how long us humans have been around. The high-tech and computer revolution has created the desk job with a number of chronic pain conditions to boot.

The Source of Your Lower Back Pain When Sitting is a Locked Spine!

The source of the problem with lower back pain when sitting is that your spine remains locked and in a fixed position all long without movement.  Sitting all day long in the typical office chair in fixed position deactivates and “shuts down” your pelvic and lower back postural muscles.  Basically, your postural muscles go on vacation for awhile and start to atrophy and waste away from lack of use as they turn to jelly.  This is a huge problem, as you need these very same muscles to stabilize your lower back and keep it strong.

Throughout civilization, human beings have constantly trained their postural muscles  to be active  with functional activities such as walking, squatting, lifting, and lunging.  Before technology, the hunter and gather, cave man, cowboy, and every other time period people needed to be very active to survive.  Now, it’s a whole society that goes from the computer  desk, to the car, to the remote control on the couch.

So why do you need your pelvic and lumbar  postural muscles to be so active? Well, you see, it’s your postural muscles that hold you  vertically upright, strong and stable, balanced, and keep you out of lower back pain when sitting.  Without these muscles active throughout your day while you focus for hours typing away at your computer, these muscles basically turn to mash potatoes just like Gumby.  That’s why elderly people often fall, and  lose their balance and stability.  Their postural muscles have gone become too weak.

If you do sit for hours upon hours each day, there are highly effective postural exercises exercises you can do to keep your postural muscles engaging over time

However, the first thing you must do is get the right chair that doesn’t lock your spine all day and gives it the movement it needs.  There’s so many expensive chairs on the market, the majority still keeping your spine locked all day long.

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If you want to finally sit comfortably all day without lower back pain, I highly suggest this chair, which is the best back relief chair on the market after testing the great majority of most expensive ones sold. It maintains your correct posture, freedom of natural movement, true lumbar support and less pain. It allows your pelvis, spine and body to move freely in its natural position, keeping your spine and muscles more fluid and relaxed all day so you have no more locked spine.

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The worst thing for your back, body, and nervous system is to lock your spine in place for hours sitting. Your muscles, tendons, ligaments and discs get tight, compressed, and rigid over time. Even subtle movement provides benefits to your back. This ergonomic chairs unique, patented design facilitates movement. The chair allows your spine to move all day long, keeping your spine loose, supple, and flexible.

Scientists long concluded the human body is made for motion, especially walking,  to keep a strong and stable lower back. This was after lengthy studies of its design and upright good posture. Despite this fact, many people rarely every walk. Gone are the hunter-gatherer days when a human being would trek for miles to search for food. These days, an average human being is seated most of time at an office desk, in the car or simply relaxing on the couch in front of a television.

The effect of prolonged sitting on your lower back is muscle atrophy and weakness of the same muscles we need strong to stabilize your back and pelvis. Our gluteal or “butt” muscles and other postural muscles waste away from lack of use when we sit on our “butts” all day. Walking is just what the back doctor ordered for this as it engages and gently activates these gluteal and postural muscles in a functional way to create better muscle balance for your pelvis and low back muscles.

As you walk,  you activate and engage your gluteal, pelvic, and hip muscles, bringing your posture and spine into better alignment. A twisted, weak, or dysfunctional pelvis causing back pain is often alleviated with gentle walking exercise and gluteal contractions.

Studies of kids in Norway revealed that over 50% suffered with back pain over the last year. This is in spite of the fact that most parents think their kids are immune to lower back problems by virtue of their young age. It would appear that lower back pain begins early and continues into adulthood.

It was also noted from research that lower back pain is inversely proportional to physical activity. The more time children spent in physical activity the less back pain they experienced while the more time they spent in front of a television, computer or video game the more likely they were to have back pain; walking was found to reduce back pain considerably.  This is why doing regular, daily walking exercises for lower back pain is often great to relieve your pain.

In another study of adults who were regularly active through moderate exercise such as walking, major differences were seen between them and people who were inactive. The exercise group had better emotional states of being, used less pain reliever medication and had less need for physical therapy for back pain. They also had much less workplace disability.

The advantages of walking are seen even in old age. Older citizens who walk regularly have less incidence of lower body disability. Walking can help to lose the back pain because it’s what the human body is designed to do.  The blueprint design of our bodies is for motion, not stagnation.

Not everyone in the world lives a sedentary lifestyle; there are others – blue collar workers – who engage in strenuous repetitive tasks. This category of people is at risk of muscle imbalances, trigger points, injury and spasms. Thus, both a sedentary lifestyle and strenuous work can lead to back pain. The fact of the matter is that 90% of people will experience back pain at some point in their lives.

In the past, conventional medical wisdom said that a week’s bed rest was good enough to fix back pain. However, research continues to contradict this position. It would appear that the best way to end back pain and keep it away is first through neuromuscular trigger point therapy, posture alignment exercises and regular physical activity. Nothing beats walking as a form of exercise for back pain.

If you’re a Los Angeles Back Pain sufferer or looking for a pain management or pain relief specialist, call now.

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