The Basics of Back Pain

The video below was found on the web and shared some opinions.  Give it a watch and look for my comments below.

A few of the points the doctor made were:

• Your pain is because you sit in a chair and not cross legged on the floor. 
• He then states that the natural aging of our spines is the other reason.
• Next he says that the pain comes from poor posture caused by ignoring balance signals from our brain.

My thoughts:

• The chair isn't the problem.  It's the amount of time we spend in our sedentary lifestyles.  You can remedy this by getting up and stretching a bit every 30-45 minutes.  Walk around a bit.  Stretch to the ceiling, get a good arch in your back.  Your hip muscles do shorten.  Doing the overhead stretch to the ceiling will help lengthen these muscles.  You'll feel it. 
• There are proven studies where imaging studies were done on a group of people WITHOUT back pain.  Half of this pain free group had degenerative issues shown, yet they had no pain.  If aging was really the problem, everyone would hurt.  I know plenty of really old people who don't have back pain.  I'm not sure this claim holds "water".

So what do YOU think about this video?  Does it make sense to you?  Or do you disagree.  Leave a comment here.

Talk to you soon.

Dan Buglio
Fellow Back Pain Sufferer