Drop the hammer and no one gets hurt!

The old joke goes...A guy walks into a doctor’s office tapping himself in the head with a hammer and says, “Doc, I don’t understand why I have these headaches!” Many of us are unknowingly doing things to bring on that back pain throughout the day. Most disc-related spine pain begins when we lose the curve in our lower back. Studies investigating the spine from an engineering perspective demonstrate that the stability of the spine drops dramatically when we lose this important inherent curve. When the muscles of the spine lose control of this curve, the back is prone to structural failure. This structural failure results in “buckling” of the spine, leading to sprains of ligaments and discs and strains of the surrounding muscles. The good news is that we can correct this fault, strengthen the back, and then pain episodes decrease in frequency and severity. In some, they may become a distant memory.

Your back is like a tower...

Like a cut on your knuckle...

All done?  Then let's go check out some Core Muscle Exercises.