Life With My Pet Back

Happy New Year Everyone! I do hope this will be a great year for you and one where you are able to take control of your health and back pain and work to feel better and ease that pain. Here are a few back pain resources that aim to help you take those steps forward and get you started.   PLEASE NOTE this page is under maintenance and links have been removed.  Thank you for your patience.  We love to offer you information and possible solutions to your back pain or sciatic pain and  honest back care suggestions.  Sleeping with sciatica and back pain can be quite a challenge- I understand... Days with sciatic and back pain are bad enough and sleeping or rather not sleeping with sciatic pain is worse. Here I will discuss various sleep solutions, hints and tips, strategies and back pain remedies to help you.  Here you will find articles to give you the information to make your own choices to what will support you, sleeping with sciatica, to get a b...

My Personal Review Of "Lose The Back Pain " There are a lot of back pain remedies and programs out there so here is a view on my personal use of this one.  Here I cover what I thought of it in my situation, the tips to using it, what it covers and includes, what is good and not so good about it, about muscle imbalances and why they are relevant, red flags of back pain and other useful back pain information.  This is not just another academic review of a back pain system. I have lived with back and sciatic pain and I have used "Lose The Back Pain System". I have talked personally with Steve Hefferon and Jesse Cannone of The Healthy Back Institute and asked them many questions.  You have maybe tried lots of back pain and sciatica treatments, have some given temporary relief or have you had no relief from pain? Are you Looking for a non-invasive, non-surgical approach?  Do You Have Any Of These Back Pain Conditions/Symptoms? Sciatica Low back ...

Pregnancy And Back Pain- Trying To Sleep? Pregnancy is a special time for you to take care of your body and your baby. Sleep, relaxation and excellent support is very important at this time as your body goes through many changes. It is vital that you and your baby bump are well supported in order for you to get a good nights sleep. However many women get back pain or sciatica during pregnancy which makes sleeping much more difficult.  You need to have enough support and comfort to give you the best chance of a good nights sleep. **Always check with a qualified medical practitioner if you are experiencing back or sciatic pain.** Some women try to manage with a range of pillows to support their head, neck, hips, and back during pregnancy. (You will see examples in a video below).Some people are OK with this approach but others are not. I know having tried pillows that they are not always the right density or give enough support or maybe too bulky or too thin. The...

Relaxation is vital to reduce stress Sometimes it can just help to get some " me" time and to listen to beautiful music and relax. Sit or lie down or whatever is comfortable for you, put on some peaceful music, whatever you like, make sure you are warm enough and just listen and go with the music. If troublesome thoughts come in just let them go, you can deal with them later,(I imagine them passing away on a cloud) just for now you can r-e-l-a-x. Some people will want to take this further and meditate and this can be very helpful as well in dealing with stress. Meditation has so many forms and some are linked to religious beliefs, some are not. In brief and a basic interpretation is that meditation is a relaxed concentration on an object, sound, thought, etc and is a mind/body/spirit experience. Some meditations demand certain postures and if you follow these you need to be the judge if you can do them with a back condition. Personally, I prefer to go with ...

Massage Therapy And Stress Reduction If you find a good massage therapist and it is safe for your condition it may well help back pain and stress.   Massage therapy can work on many levels if you have a good therapist. It can be a time for you, a time for pampering and healing. There are different massages you can have from sports massage for injury to a nice pampering massage just for relaxation. Best to discuss your needs with a qualified, insured massage therapist first.  If done with oils it can help you on an emotional level as well eg lavender is calming, jasmine can help lift anxiety and depression, neroli is a sedative and antidepressant, helping with anxiety, shock and insomnia. These are simply examples. Please consult with a qualified aromatherapist if you want to use oils for therapeutic reasons. It can also help with some back pain and sciatica as part of your strategy but you must check the massage therapist is competent and experienced in wor...

Stress Symptoms,  Signs Of Stress when in pain We are all different and equally valid in the ways we react emotionally to debilitating pain. People I know who are under stress have described it as an emotional roller coaster, a see-saw experience, frustrating, depressing, challenging, debilitating, frightening, isolating, stressful and confusing. Also, people have said who are coping with the demands of back pain and realising they are learning to cope and using their emotional strength to get through and do each day, was a profound experience changing the way they behaved towards life.  Appreciating what they can do, physically more dependent, mentally more independent, being kinder, amazed at the community of support among back pain sufferers, found something within themselves an emotional and mental strength they didn't know was there... So we all react in different ways, at different times...equally true, equally valid. I certainly recognize myself in ...