🎙️ Rethinking Muscle Spasm: How Misdiagnosis Can Lead to Chronic Lower Back Pain

Lower back pain is frequently diagnosed as muscle spasm or supposedly caused by tight muscles, but is this really the whole story? Of course it is not.

Muscles are reactionary tissues and they respond to a stimulus. Where we have tightness or painful spasm in the lower back this is of course going to be unhelpful. However, the muscle spasm itself is not the cause of the lower back pain. Today we explain precisely how muscles work. We go on to help you better understand the presence of muscle spasm in lower back injuries as well as how this is understandably unhelpful!

Hopefully by the end of this, you'll firmly understand why muscle spasm in the lower back is a problem, but is not the problem. In doing so you'll have gained and understanding of your own lower back and be able to move forwards resolving the underlying cause of your lower back pain, rehabilitating properly and ultimately getting back to the things you want to do, without pain!

You can check out the full episode below:

🗞️ Issue 47 - Rethinking Muscle Spasm: How Misdiagnosis Can Lead to Chronic Lower Back Pain

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/06/rethinking-muscle-spasm-how-misdiagnosis-can-lead-to-chronic-lower-back-pain/

🗞️ Join The Sunday Newsletter Free:

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/sunday/

You can also listen to the latest BISPodcast episodes using the links below:

🎙️Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kKHnZoyL8Awg0aU3onE4o

🎙️Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/back-in-shape-podcast/id1517319524

📽️YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/backinshapeprogram

#BackInShapePodcast #BackInShape #BackInShapePodcast

🎙️ Whiplash: Why The Chronic Neck Pain & How To Stop It Lingering

Whiplash is an injury that can lead to severe neck damage, thankfully broken bones and the need for emergency surgeries are rare. More often, damage to the cervical spine is ruled out quickly and you're sent on your merry way with some "minor soft tissue damage" and the message that "it will get better on its own". But it doesn't get better on its own.

Many with chronic neck pain will tell you that it has never been right since "that whiplash injury or accident" and this is the unfortunate truth for so many. But it all could be avoided, what's more the good news is that it is never too late to start making a change and improving your neck health. One thing is essential though, and that is you start to understand your whiplash injury a little better, even if it was years ago.

Doing so is the first step. This week on the podcast and in the detailed article we will walk you through the whiplash injury, why life sets you up to fail the early recovery process and how understanding all this will lead to a "lightbulb moment". From there you can begin to start doing the right things to manage and resolve your long standing neck pain, even if it was caused by a whiplash injury quite some time ago.

You can check out the full episode below:

🗞️ Issue 46 - Whiplash: Why The Chronic Neck Pain & How To Stop It Lingering

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/06/whiplash-why-the-chronic-neck-pain-amp-how-to-stop-it-lingering/

🗞️ Join The Sunday Newsletter Free:

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/sunday/

You can also listen to the latest BISPodcast episodes using the links below:

🎙️Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kKHnZoyL8Awg0aU3onE4o

🎙️Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/back-in-shape-podcast/id1517319524

📽️YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/backinshapeprogram

#BackInShapePodcast #BackInShape #BackInShapePodcast

🎙️ Combatting Back Pain and Sciatica During Sleep: A Comprehensive Guide to Nighttime Relief

Being woken in the middle of the night by your back pain or sciatica is horrible. Back pain in the middle of the night is something common especially in more severe or chronic cases of back pain, and that includes sciatica too. Why is it that the back pain builds to a level that wakes us and what is it that causes the sciatica symptoms to come on in the dead of night?

This week on the podcast we take a deep dive in to the topic of back pain at night, explaining why it's happening, what you can do at night to help reduce the likelihood, as well as some more concrete steps going forwards that will combine to not only relieve your night time back pain or sciatica, but improve your back health for the long term too.

You can check out the full episode below:

🗞️ Issue 45 - Combatting Back Pain and Sciatica During Sleep: A Comprehensive Guide to Nighttime Relief

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/05/combatting-back-pain-and-sciatica-during-sleep-a-comprehensive-guide-to-nighttime-relief/

🗞️ Join The Sunday Newsletter Free:

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/sunday/

You can also listen to the latest BISPodcast episodes using the links below:

🎙️Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kKHnZoyL8Awg0aU3onE4o

🎙️Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/back-in-shape-podcast/id1517319524

📽️YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/backinshapeprogram

#BackInShapePodcast #BackInShape #BackInShapePodcast

🎙️ Back Pain and Sciatica: How the Child's Pose Stretch Could Be Making It Worse

Child's pose stretch is commonly recommended if you have back pain or sciatica. It rounds the lower back thereby stretching the muscles and the ligaments on the back of your lower spine. But is this really helpful if you have back pain and sciatica.

Sure, it feels nice when you do the child's pose stretch. But there are many things that feel nice for your back pain or sciatica that are certainly not helpful! And on top of that, is the child's pose really helping your back or is it simply stretching already exhausted low back muscles further?

When you take a step back and examine what the child's pose is doing to the lower back, and review if this is helpful or not given how your back pain or sciatica was caused. We start to see, in the vast majority of cases the child's pose stretch is a waste of time, and in a significant majority, it is detrimental to the resolution of your back injury.

Check out the full release below:

🗞️ Issue 44 - Back Pain and Sciatica: How the Child's Pose Stretch Could Be Making It Worse

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/05/back-pain-and-sciatica-how-the-childs-pose-stretch-could-be-making-it-worse/

🗞️ Join The Sunday Newsletter Free:

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/sunday/

You can also listen to the latest BISPodcast episodes using the links below:

🎙️Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kKHnZoyL8Awg0aU3onE4o

🎙️Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/back-in-shape-podcast/id1517319524

📽️YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/backinshapeprogram

#BackInShapePodcast #BackInShape #BackInShapePodcast

🎙️ How to Recover from Lower Back Surgery with Exercises: Your Comprehensive Guide to Post-Op Rehabilitation

Check out the full release below:

🗞️ Issue 43 - How to Recover from Lower Back Surgery with Exercises: Your Comprehensive Guide to Post-Op Rehabilitation

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/05/how-to-recover-from-lower-back-surgery-with-exercises-your-comprehensive-guide-to-post-op-rehabilitation/

🗞️ Join The Sunday Newsletter Free:

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/sunday/

You can also listen to the latest BISPodcast episodes using the links below:

🎙️Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kKHnZoyL8Awg0aU3onE4o

🎙️Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/back-in-shape-podcast/id1517319524

📽️YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/backinshapeprogram

#BackInShapePodcast #BackInShape #BackInShapePodcast

🎙️ Managing Chronic Back Pain: Lifestyle Changes and Self-Care Strategies for Long-Term Relief

Living with chronic back pain can feel like a never ending battle. It can infiltrate every aspect of your life, turning a simple task into a major challenge. What if we told you that it is possible to reclaim your life from the clutches of chronic back pain? This article will give you a comprehensive guide to managing chronic back pain, with lifestyle changes & self care strategies for long-term relief. We’ll explore everything from understanding the root causes of your back pain, the role of physical activity and necessary lifestyle changes, to the influence of diet and psychological factors and more.

Whether you’re newly diagnosed, or like many of our members and have been battling back pain for years, we have a wealth of information today to help you alleviate discomfort and improve your quality of life. Let’s take the first step together on this journey to wellness, towards a life where pain does not dictate your daily activities. If you’re ready to turn a page and start a new chapter in your back health then keep reading. Your guide to mastering chronic back pain management begins here. 

Check out the full release below:

🗞️ Issue 42 - Managing Chronic Back Pain: Lifestyle Changes and Self-Care Strategies for Long-Term Relief

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/05/managing-chronic-back-pain-lifestyle-changes-and-self-care-strategies-for-long-term-relief/

🗞️ Join The Sunday Newsletter Free:

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/sunday/

You can also listen to the latest BISPodcast episodes using the links below:

🎙️Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kKHnZoyL8Awg0aU3onE4o

🎙️Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/back-in-shape-podcast/id1517319524

📽️YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/backinshapeprogram

#BackInShapePodcast #BackInShape #Podcast

🎙️ The Best Treatment For Lower Back Pain

When it comes to treatment for lower back pain there are more options than we can count . They all offer a specific "mechanism of action" to help your low back pain in some way. Some are naturally more effective and all encompassing than others. If we break down the specific characteristics of back injuries first, we can come up with some specific areas that a treatment would need to address in order to consider the treatment truly thorough.

Once we identify the 4 characteristics that are common to all back injuries, regardless of the diagnosis, we can evaluate how the chosen treatments target these areas compared to other options available.

Understanding this will help you seek out the best treatment for lower back pain, you'll also appreciated how you cannot do without 2 additional areas that make back pain treatments work long term.

Check out the full release below:

🗞️ Issue 41 - The Best Treatment For Lower Back Pain

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/04/best-treatment-for-lower-back-pain/

🗞️ Join The Sunday Newsletter Free:

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/sunday/

You can also listen to the latest BISPodcast episodes using the links below:

🎙️Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kKHnZoyL8Awg0aU3onE4o

🎙️Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/back-in-shape-podcast/id1517319524

📽️YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/backinshapeprogram

#BackInShapePodcast #BackInShape #Podcast

🎙️ Can A Flat Back Cause Low Back Pain?  How To Restore Normal Lordosis

For reasons that we’ll get into here, the flattening of the low back to eliminate the normal natural lordosis we should all have is a factor that seems to be associated with back pain that is persistent. When we take a look at modern life and the numerous ways this pathological derangement from normal structure is baked into our daily lives, it is easy to see why back pain is such a drain on society.

From practitioners and specialists who seem to poorly understand this phenomenon, to the lives many of us have to lead on a daily basis, this week we’ll explore the lower back, the cause of this flattening, how it affects your lower back health as well as how we can go about restoring a degree of normal lordosis. Towards the end we’ll also touch on 5 exercises and stretches you could consider adding into your daily practice to make sure you avoid this issue of a reduced lumbar lordosis, or “flat low back” reducing your lower back health for the long term.

Check out the full release below:

🗞️ Issue 40 - Can A Flat Back Cause Low Back Pain?  How To Restore Normal Lordosis

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/04/can-a-flat-back-cause-low-back-pain-5-ways-to-support-your-lordosis/

🗞️ Join The Sunday Newsletter Free:

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/sunday/

You can also listen to the latest BISPodcast episodes using the links below:

🎙️Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kKHnZoyL8Awg0aU3onE4o

🎙️Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/back-in-shape-podcast/id1517319524

📽️YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/backinshapeprogram

#BackInShapePodcast #BackInShape #Podcast

🎙️ How to Safely Travel with Back Pain: Tips for Road Trips, Flights, and Accommodations

One of the common questions we get from members comes in anticipation of holidays. How will they mange the work trip with their low back vulnerability? We find that it is always easier to pre-empt this when members ask ahead of their travels as opposed to crisis management mid way through a holiday!

As we start to approach the summer months (in spite of the weather not indicating that to be the case in the UK) holidays are on our minds. Hopefully this weeks episode and companion article helps give you some tools that will help you move forwards with confidence in eager anticipation of your next holiday abroad or road trip!

Check out the full release below:

🗞️ Issue 39 - How to Safely Travel with Back Pain: Tips for Road Trips, Flights, and Accommodations

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/04/how-to-safely-travel-with-back-pain-tips-for-road-trips-flights-and-accommodations/

🗞️ Join The Sunday Newsletter Free:

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/sunday/

You can also listen to the latest BISPodcast episodes using the links below:

🎙️Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kKHnZoyL8Awg0aU3onE4o

🎙️Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/back-in-shape-podcast/id1517319524

📽️YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/backinshapeprogram

#BackInShapePodcast #BackInShape #Podcast

🎙️ The Role of Posture in Preventing & Alleviating Back Pain: Tips for Everyday Life

Posture plays an important role in our body, fundamentally, it dictates how the muscles and joints are aligned, dictating where pressure is focussed. Which muscles will bear more strain, which parts of which joints will be transferring the load. All postures will vary this picture, some will accentuate certain areas in inefficient ways, others will reduce net mechanical strain by aligning the body in a more balanced way. 

Nowadays you’re likely to come across material online talking about posture not causing back pain, and while any given posture is not explicitly going to cause back pain, acknowledging the reality of posture's influence on our structure regardless of the presence of an injury is important. Quite often these statements are really to be contrarian or said without opportunity for full follow up. Hopefully by the end of today’s episode you’ll have a better idea of the role of posture in preventing and alleviating lower back pain.

Check out the full release below:

🗞️ Issue 38 - The Role of Posture in Preventing & Alleviating Back Pain: Tips for Everyday Life

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/04/the-role-of-posture-in-preventing-alleviating-back-pain-tips-for-everyday-life/

🗞️ Join The Sunday Newsletter Free:

👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/sunday/

You can also listen to the latest BISPodcast episodes using the links below:

🎙️Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5kKHnZoyL8Awg0aU3onE4o

🎙️Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/back-in-shape-podcast/id1517319524

📽️YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/backinshapeprogram

#BackInShapePodcast #BackInShape #Podcast