Natural Cure For Lower Back Pain And Muscle Spasm

Can lower back pain be cured naturally? You have a very good chance and here's why:

The pain in lower backs is almost always caused by muscles. Why is this?

Well, muscles move the bones, joints and disks in your spine. Muscles are the prime movers of your body! The only reason you can move is because you have muscles.

We love muscles!

And the muscles in your lower back are BIG. They are thick. And there are many layers of muscle next to your spine. That means there are lots of places for them to either be happy or miserable.

Sometimes your muscles get out of balance. They can get too strong on one side of your body or go into spasm. They can become too weak on the other side.

Then we don't say we love muscles. We say, "Ouch!" Nasty muscles.

Well, it's not their fault. Your lower back muscles wouldn't be unhappy and complaining if you did everything perfectly in all of your movements.

But you don't. Or you didn't. That's because you are human. But you can change.

Here's how:

• Add movements that balance all of your lower back muscles.


• Use all of your muscles instead of the same old ones over and over.

Did you know you have over 600 muscles in your body? You are supposed to have balanced muscles just like when you were a little child. You should have just the right amount of natural curve behind your waist just as a small child does.

Yet most of us get stuck using the same 70 or so muscles over and over. This is what creates muscle imbalance. The curve becomes too much or too little.

Here are two common scenarios:

1. If the muscles in the front of your body are stronger than the back muscles, they will give you too much curve in your lower back.


2. If the muscles in the back are stronger than the front, that will pull the curve out of your lower back. You will not have enough of a hollow behind your waist. Your lower back will be flat.

Either of those situations will cause pain in your low back (and also in your neck and head.)

The causes of low back pain vary from person to person. Your muscles may be aggravated because of an injury or accident or because of poor posture and habits. (Poor posture is the most common cause, by the way.)

That means the movements for you to do to feel better will also vary. One size does not fit all when it comes to back pain relief. The exercises or movements that work for my back pain may not be at all right for your back pain.

It depends on which muscles are out of balance. The muscles in the front of your body? Or the muscles on the back side?

So your goal is to help your muscles be happy again. When they are back in balance they will stop screaming at you.

Deep massage and pressure into tight areas can help muscles to relax in most cases. Stretching areas of short, tight muscle can help. The muscles that need to be lengthened are often in your legs and the front of your body and NOT where it hurts.

Cold therapy may be one of your best friends. So can your pillow when you place one or more under your calves as you lie on your back.

So, you see, you CAN start getting rid of your back pain naturally by taking simple action steps.