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This book explains how
the great majority of chronic back pain, including lower back pain, is actually caused by
accumulated shortness in the "fascia" soft connective tissue element of many
muscles, and not in the nerve and "muscle" parts.
So the usual
neuro-muscular and joint manipulation methods often won't fix the cause of
the problem because they're not addressing this fascia.
If you, or someone you
know, has a back "condition," or often has a lot of back tightness, this
book can explain just why you have it and what you can do to actually fix
it. This treatment can usually do that and also reform your whole
body so it's more flexible and agile at the same time that the back
problem gets less, or even goes away.
You can even do
some lengthening & tightness removal with the kinds of stretches I show on
my videos.
The structural integration bodywork method, and my
structural stretching method, also both make
it easier to keep stretching out and massages usually do more, too. This big improvement in how the body feels and works usually happens for
everybody, regardless of their age.
See - My Stretching
& Hands-on How-to DVD Videos Info Page
When you understand
the way our body structures work, it can clarify why other methods you've tried have not worked, or
perhaps, have provided temporary relief but haven't given you a long term
fix. The book explains all of this in great detail, as well as
outlining the method that does create long term fixes &
how this treatment or these stretches can help other practices like
massage, chiropractic, acupuncture and even surgery, be perhaps more
effective.
There's
also a chapter on how to find and interview a practitioner.
If you're a massage
therapist, yoga teacher, chiropractor or athletic trainer, this book can give you concrete information that you can
use right away to be more effective.
Add in my Video
how-to's for both the stretches and the hands-on and you can do even more.
They are designed for people to do a stroke by stroke and stretch by
stretch follow along as an actual session. And subsets of the
stretches can be done quickly throughout the day.
The underlying cause of
developing, and on going, back problems, including a lot of protruding
disk, pinched nerve and sciatica conditions, is a "whole-body" shortness of that "fascia."
Many muscles are all bunched up in a lot of areas, and the place it often
"shows up" is in the back, especially the lower back.
This overall
shortness causes a distortion in the body's
shape. The most obvious thing we see is from the side.
There's a zig-zagging between the person's legs, torso and head.
They don't line up on top of each other in a balanced straight line.
Most typically, the pelvis tilts
down in front, called an anterior pelvic tilt, the legs lean
forward, the calves bulge backward, and the lower back arches backward,
while the entire back of the body from head to heel is contracted tight
and short. Some people have an additional tightness so that it
shows up as a dip in the back of the pelvis, a posterior tilt, often
from wearing high heeled shoes.
Above this, the head and neck may jut
forward, the chest and shoulders may round forward, there may be a lot of
upper back and neck tightness and even the rib cage is tilted down forward
with overly shortened abdominal muscles.
Further, the feet and knees will
often be splayed outward. In essence, the entire body's muscles
system is shortened and one part pulls upon all the others.
Part of this distortion can be seen
in the spine. It's misaligned. Even when the person lies down, the curves
in the lumbar and cervical areas are two sharp. That in itself can keep putting vertebrae out of alignment.
There's also chronic tightness in the back muscles,
and the
vertebrae are pulled too close together so they might pinch nerves and
compress disks.
Another example is with shortened
abdominals from sit-ups and crunches - then the only way to straighten up
the chest and head is to thrust the hip joints and thighs forward & pull
the back backward including the top back of the neck and the back of
the head. So the hip joints get put into a rubbing position of the
thigh bones into the pelvic sockets. Low back tightness & pain is
thus related to hip joint problems. And the upper vertebrae, the
atlas and axis, are jammed into the lower back head bone, the occiput.
This even tightens the jaw & inside the mouth. The whole structure
is now misaligned.
The book explains all of this in
more detail, & the point of Structural Integration & my Structural
fascial lengthening stretching is to remove all these to & fro tightnesses
that are now fixed in the fascia so the body is more aligned again.
Even when the person's nerves and
muscle "fiber" parts relax, the fascial shortness still keeps everything too
tight. The distortion doesn't go away with massage to the
painful areas, with magnetics or heat wraps in improve circulation, nor with adjustments to the vertebrae that
are "out." Those methods can make us feel better
for a while, but the underlying cause hasn't been re-lengthened out.
Furthermore, if back surgery just fuses vertebrae
together, the same tight muscle pulls will still be there, pulling on the
spine, neck, shoulders and even down into the legs.
If one gets disk rebuilding
injections, re-lengthening the shortnesses that caused the pressure on the
disks can help the new tissue to grow "better," and the overall long term
benefits can be more effective and maybe longer lasting.
The way to actually correct the
tightness and the pain it causes is to methodically re-lengthen the fascia "system" of the whole body. This requires a
specialized hands-on technique and a knowledge of the sequence needed to
unravel the many tight and interconnected muscles.
Thorough Structural Integration
Bodywork can do this. And much can also be done for a lot of
people with "knowledgeably
applied" massage and stretching.
See - My Stretching
& Hands-on How-to DVD Videos Info Page
This is know how you can get from the book.
It tells you just how things are distorted; which muscles are affecting
what bones so that this section zigs and that one zags.
Then it gives you the principles
about Body Structure that enable us to re-lengthen and re-align the
head-to-toe shape. It also gives the areas we work in sequentially,
the "recipe" of 10 steps used in the basic Structural
Integration process.
It even gives some ways we can modify the order of those steps to make the
treatment more effective.
In fact, I
have now found that my expanded stretching repertoire of my Structural
Integration Stretching really helps improve structural alignment and even
on the phone, in a sample stretch coaching session, people have removed
their back and other pains. Right then.
Now, as I said above, I also have Videos for how to do
hands-on Bodywork for yourself and also for people you know,
family-friends, even massage therapists. So you can get a
combination of the stretching, the hands-on and the knowledge, all in one
package.
See - My Stretching
& Hands-on How-to DVD Videos Info Page
See - Package Deal
of these items, just above on this page
This info won't give you all the
details nor teach you the hands-on method to make you into a practitioner.
But if you're into stretching or deep massage, you can be a lot more
effective. If you're a new Practitioner, this book can be a good
guide to help you get better at fixing back pain and other tightnesses.
Even if you do need surgery to repair
severely degenerated disks, or remove bone edges, or you gain benefit from
a general massage and other physical and nutritional therapies, you can read in this
book how getting Structural Integration helps all these do more for you.
My Professional
Bodywork Training: I was trained in Postural Integration by the
founder, Jack Painter PhD, and certified trainers Jack Haer PhD &
Marv Treiger PhD.
I also took classes and
workshops in Structural Integration and Integrated Movement with Rolfer
(r)
Roger Pierce PhD and Rolfing Movement (r) Teacher Alexandra Pierce PhD,
developers of Movement Enhancement. I had a workshop each with
Joseph Heller, developer of Hellerwork (r) and Ted Looyen, P.I. trainer and
developer of Looyenwork.
Besides a lot of P.I.,
I've had treatments from other Structural Integration types of methods.
More detailed
training info
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310-285-8132 or e-mail
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