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Lower Back Pain Relief / Hip and Back Pain Exercises
Lower Back Pain Exercises to relieve back pain by stretching the tight muscles around the hips that attach to the lower back. Follow each lower back pain exercise to deturmine if the muscles in your hips are so tight as to cause discomfort in the back, legs, hips. If these muscles are very tight then I reccoment that you purchase this DVD so that you can stretch the inside of the hips, the outside of the hips and stregthen the weak areas at the same time. This DVD is available at BackandHipRelief.com. I will try to get to questions as I can but I am not on this site very often due to my work load. Best of luck – I hope this helps – Aloha – David Wicker
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YOGA Routine For Lower Back Pain. With Esther Ekhart
Esther shows you a routine using a towel-roll to help you kick the Pain in your lower back.Try it, it really works!
Duration : 0:9:19
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All About Seated Massage Therapy : Treating Pinched Nerves with Seated Massage Therapy
Learn about pinched nerves with expert advice on Seated Massage therapy in this free massage video.
Expert: Greg Ellsworth
Contact: www.gmemassage.com
Bio: Greg Ellsworth Is a graduate from Utah College Of Massage Therapy. He currently works for GME massage, in charge of a network of over 30 massage therapists.
Filmmaker: joseph wilkins
Duration : 0:1:13
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Inauguration Provided Much Needed Pain Relief
Last Monday I sought and secured an apt with an Acupuncturist seeking Relief from excruciating leg and back pain. I’ve had some pain these past months, but Sunday it flared up in a new way–uber pain–and I needed Relief. The highly trained and expert Acupuncturist explained to me that in a perfectly healthy body oxygen and blood flow freely through our veins and arteries to feed our organs and muscles. Yet when blockages occur in our arteries and veins, the potential for disease erupts, often followed by symptoms; i.e., pain. Well, yes, I was definitely in the pain category!
After pressing on various locations on my leg, ankle and hip he nearly had to scrape me from the ceiling where I rocketed to from the pain. He deduced that I had obstructed circulation. Basically a narrowing of the all important arteries & veins was causing poor circulation and the pain was symptomatic of that. Always curious I asked, “What are the principal causes of these narrowed arteries?” He replied, “Well genetics is #1, followed by a couple other potential causes.” I leaned forward, “what’s #2?” He answered, “Stress.” I didn’t feel any need to ask about #3; the conversation turned another direction from there.
He warned me that one treatment wouldn’t be viable. I would need to commit to at least 3 treatments, to which I readily agreed. He inserted several needles and immediately I felt relief. He chattered about the different treatments-pain relief or symptom cure-listed on his intake form. Not being an acupuncture specialist, I had checked the box stating, “Whichever the doctor recommends” so we agreed on both pain relief and addressing and curing the cause of the blockage(s).
One day later as I luxuriated in all the TV coverage of the inauguration of our 44th United States’ President, it dawned on me. Of course! We, in the United States of America were in pain of one sort or another-lost job, foreclosed home, inability to afford health care, failure to sell our homes, battered investment portfolios, general depression or dismay at our downward slide as a nation on so many fronts.
We had managed to obstruct the healthy circulation of money in our banking systems and on Wall Street. We had also managed to obstruct the healthy circulation of truth and honor in our government such that we were as a nation suffering from VERY poor circulation indeed. Our collective organs were suffering and our muscles weakened.
The powerful Wall Street executives had blocked the flow of capital; lies had obstructed and narrowed the flow of truth, such that we were plenty diseased, and plenty pained. No longer is that pain reserved primarily for ENRON, WorldCom, Lucent or Lehman employees. I hearken back to April 13, 1958 when Harry Truman stated in the Observer, “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.” Ouch! Indeed our nation and many of her people are pained amidst disease; the perfect storm of the confluence of our financial, regulatory and government impotency and failures.
Yet on this day, this 20th day of January, we gathered together-amidst our pain-in spirit and flesh to witness the swearing in of Barack Obama, the people’s president.
Over a million (maybe 2) people-some famous, most commoners–somehow planned ahead, fought traffic and security check points, and reassured their bodies of their warmth amidst freezing cold temperatures, to attend. No, they weren’t crazy; they were committed. They exchanged emails and texts and formed community in a few short hours.
I digress to the analogy that we rally behind our athletic teams or sport stars because it interests us, and it focuses us/joins us together, we share a common bond. We’ll not be “in their league” yet we find ways to relate. I, for one, bought a #10 NY Giants Official NFL blue jersey after watching Eli Manning deftly dodge that sea of New England Patriots’ defenders last Super Bowl and I don it when I need or want a confidence boost.
Somehow however I felt differently about an Obama jersey…kinda like it wasn’t adequately “befitting” to honor my President by wearing his image on a jersey. Mind you, I don’t begrudge anyone’s buying Obama paraphernalia-God knows the economy sorely needs consumer spending-and moreover it certainly did seem to unite people, allowing folks to display their unwavering support.
Yes he is; President that is. Yes, this President IS different. In the past weeks, we’ve seen a man who despite his polish and cloak of calm, chattered freely about the verdict on what breed of dog that he and Michelle will give to Malia and Sasha, to fulfill their campaign promise. We’ve seen a man who despite the continued swirl of economic ills and world unrest since his resounding victory on November 4th reminded us respectfully that we have only “One president at a time.” We’ve seen a President-Elect that has been uncharacteristically committed to bi-partisanship within his cabinet. And on the eve of the Inauguration President-Elect Obama graciously hosted a dinner honoring his general election rival, John McCain.
This time we see a President who more than tapped into young people’s social networking-he actually evoked and enlisted the interest of our youth and they responded….VOILA! Mutuality at work. I’m jumping ahead of myself here, yet as President Barack & Michele Obama danced at the Inauguration Youth Ball-wasn’t that a 1st?-he paid a very gracious and more-than-fitting thank you to those under age 35 in his speech. Apparently his new interactive White House website (another first) was up before he even uttered the oath.
Yes, this Inauguration was different. While millions watched what otherwise was an expertly choreographed MEGA event (during which not 1 arrest was made) it was the brilliant Chief Justice John Roberts who flubbed” his once-memorized 35 word President’s oath of office. Wasn’t that graceful how Barack stopped, allowing the Chief Justice to correct himself? I think Barack’s rolling with Roberts’ colossal misstep bodes confidence for his handling future “mistakes”.
The speech was crafted with Kennedy, Lincoln and FDR overtones and was delivered with a masterful balance of force and feeling. It was a speech that expertly addressed both the pain and the proposed symptom cures. Forget the nation’s expectations. Forget Black American’s expectations. Forget non-black American’s expectations. Malia’s words delivered to her father atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last weekend were, “First African-American President. Better be good!”
The media nearly immediately fed us the line, “not a Home Run acceptance speech” which I will comment on in a separate blog. “He got millions there,” one commentator aptly retorted. Malia beamed. Even my father, a right-wing Christian fundamentalist, who surely has voted Republican every election including this one, uttered “good job” immediately after Obama uttered, “God bless the United States of America.” I was so moved and relieved—THAT gave me hope right there in my own living room! A `Morrison microcosm’ of hope over fear that regardless of whomever we campaigned or voted for, we can indeed put aside our differences and come together as one nation under God.
Debra L. Morrison
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Understanding Spinal Stenosis
Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal resulting in a lack of space to accommodate the nerves.
The spinal canal contains the nerves that connect to the skin and Muscles of the legs. A normal size canal has sufficient space to hold these nerves. But, as a person ages, the canal is subject to narrowing. The narrowing may not always result in problems. But if the narrowing causes pinching of the spinal nerves, problems will develop.
Spinal stenosis isn’t always caused by degeneration due to age. It can also be due to tumors, herniated discs, and injuries resulting from accidents. Spinal stenosis can even be present at birth but this is rare.
The symptoms of spinal stenosis vary depending upon the location of the compressed Nerve. If the nerves in your neck or shoulder are pinched, you will experience pain in this area.
If the pressure is on the nerves that control your balance, you will tend to be clumsy or fall easily.
When the stenosis results from a herniated disc, the pain will begin in your hip or buttocks and travel down the back of your leg. In this case, the pain is confined to one side of your body but increases when you sit.
If the pinched nerves are in your lower lumbar region, you can have a condition known as false claudication. People with this problem have pain and cramping in their legs make it difficult to stand straight in one position for long periods of time. Sitting down relieves the discomfort. Walking is easier when bending forward which is why many people with spinal stenosis prefer to shop at stores that have shopping carts. Leaning forward on the cart makes walking much easier. False claudication also makes downhill walking difficult.
There is another form of claudication called vascular claudication, which is a blockage in the arteries in the legs. This also causes pain and cramping but unlike false claudication, it gets worse when walking up hill and gets better when you stand still.
Other symptoms of spinal stenosis are numbness in the arms, hands, feet, or legs and loss of bladder or bowel control. People who experience the numbness need to be careful, as it is possible to injure the body part and not be aware of it due to reduced sensitivity.
Anyone have problems with bowel or bladder control need to consult their physician immediately.
Doctors use radiographs and MRI’s (magnetic resonance imaging) to diagnose spinal stenosis. The radiographs show whether arthritis is present and if there is any slippage of the vertebrae. The MRI scan is needed to detect whether or not there is any pinching of the nerves. There are also special tests available for people who cannot have an MRI.
There are two basic types of treatment for spinal stenosis – surgical and nonsurgical.
Nonsurgical treatments involve physical therapy, anti-inflammatory medication, and epidural steroid injections.
People need to be cautious about the anti-inflammatory medications as many of these have serious side effects. They should be thoroughly discussed with the doctor prior to taking the medications.
The steroid medication is injected directly into the nerve roots within the spinal canal. There are less side effects with this treatment and sometimes it will allow patients to avoid surgery.
The non-surgical treatments are only useful for providing relief from symptoms. They do not decrease the narrowing of the canal.
There are two types of surgical treatments. One, called decompression, consists of removing the bone and soft tissues that are pinching the nerve.
The other involves a spinal fusion during which two or more vertebrae are permanently fused together.
Surgery is usually viewed as a last resort to be attempted when all other treatments fail. However, if there is loss of bladder or bowel control, surgery will be performed immediately.
Brenda Williams
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