How To Treat And Cure Bad Lower Backache With Chiropractic Counter Moves for Back Pain

Treating a bad back with counter moves and relaxation is so natural that children and animals do it by instinct. To fully benefit from “How To Treat A Bad Back with Counter Moves” make sure you watch all four exercise videos on counter moves fully and bookmark this page. Once bookmarked, you can come back to this page as a preventive measure as soon as you feel the slightes twinge in your back. Knowing the preventive counter moves will save you another trip to the chiropractor and your back will never trouble you again. But before jumping to the videos consider where your backache came from? Why did you get a bad back in the first place?

Back ache usually comes from muscle spasm along the spine due to two things:

1. Compression Fatigue
2. Rotational Fatigue

Both compression and rotational fatigue can be avoided by very simple preventive body movements or counter moves.

Compression Fatigue

Compression Fatigue is too much downward pressure on the spine caused by jumping and aerobics, field sports, skiing, bicycling, jogging, lifting activities such as gardening, weight lifting, and, inevitably, by prolonged standing and sitting on chairs whereby the body is carrying itself in a vertical position.

Rotational fatigue

Rotational Fatigue is caused by one-sided activities such as golf, tennis, ping pong (unless you use 2 rackets), bowling, and playing one-sided instruments like the violin, guitar, cello etc.

It seems there is no activity that we can do to any excess without suffering either Compression or Rotational Fatigue. This may be the case and perhaps the reason why so many people suffer back ache. But there is a solution. For every damaging movement we make, there is a counter move that makes the damage void.

A counter move is conscious action with a movement that goes in the opposite direction to a movement that may cause damage to the body. Since we mostly use our bodies towards the front and downwards, focussed all day on what we do with our hands and eyes, it is obvious that the most urgent counter moves to implement into one’s daily movement vocabulary are those that would focus upwards and back.

But people don’t like looking up and bending back for the very reason that they never do. Some "fitness experts" even discourage bending the neck back. Movements never done are weak and uncomfortable. To remedy the situation we can use gravity to our advantage and perform those moves in a horizontal or inverted position. Then the body likes it very much. No strain, no pain, just pure gain.

Here is just one example of how stupid muscles can be. Say you have been digging a big hole in the garden to plant a young pair tree. By the end of the job your back is moaning, but not yet aching. You’re proud of your job, happy with the exercise and go in for a cup of tea and watch some TV on the sofa, not realising that the job isn’t finished yet as far as your body is concerned. You forgot to do the counter moves for digging a big hole in the garden. You will notice that with a back ache tomorrow when your back muscles have had time to creep into spasm. I shall give you some appropriate counter moves videos to cure back ache in a moment but first please do the following Fist Test to feel for yourself how stupid muscles can be.

1. Make a fist
2. Squeeze the fist tight, as tight as you can until you can feel your nails digging in.
3. Hold for as long as it becomes uncomfortable without letting go of the strength.
4. Keep holding, keep squeezing tighter until you can no longer hold your fist tight.
5. Stop.
   

Your hand is still in a fist shape when you stop. Why? Because you did not perform the necessary counter moves to bring it back to its neutral shape. In order for the hand to regain its normal shape you have to consciously open your fingers and flatten your whole hand. In other words, you must tell your muscles to do two things. You must tell them to:

6. Stop making a fist, i.e. stop the contraction. But that is not enough to bring your hand back to normal. For that to happen, you need to

7. Make a counter move, a conscious action with a movement that goes in the opposite direction to the fist clench, i.e. open your hand fully flat, spread the fingers out into a fan shape.

Now imagine having all those clenched muscles all over your body because you forgot to tell them to let go and go the opposite way. No wonder you’re feeling stiff!

Follows four of the best videos to illustrate "How to Cure Back Ache with Counter Moves". I am putting you in the care of Elizabeth Rose who is a registered Hatha yoga teacher with a background in modern dance, gymnastics, martial arts, and circus arts. Make sure you've got your sound turned up so you won't miss any of Elizabeth's excellent explananations.
Filmmaker: randy primm

So unless one takes the trouble to finish a physical task with the appropriate counter move, muscles are in the habit of staying contracted, causing spasm. Now why do muscles do that, creep into spasm? As we saw earlier, muscles are quite stupid, having no grey matter inside them, so the answer is simple. Muscles creep into spasm when they’ve been told to contract to full capacity but you forgot to physically tell them to stop contracting, not only to stop contracting, but to use their antagonists to move them in the opposite direction. By means of counter moves muscles can find their relaxed neutral position again as we had to do with the fist-test.

When you know how to cure back ache with counter moves you can challenge your body to its limits without ever suffering a bad back ever again.

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