Back Care
Back to the Back
It has to shoulder quite a lot, most of our life actually. It is one of the most indispensable parts of our body, one of its hardest working parts, and surely the one we pay the least attention to. We never see it with our own eyes, we hardly ever see it in the mirror, and we hardly ever care... »
Come have a look inside!
Mother Nature’sdesigns are ingenious, and this applies very much to our back. It is principally constructed like two crosses on top of each other, the upper one made of the vertebral column and the shoulder blades, and the lower one made of again the vertebral column and the pelvis. Shoulder blades and pelvis are the reinforcements to the vertebral column at... »
The weak points
Our back is a gorgeous creation, but it still has limitations. There are weak points. A well functioning body needs lots of nerves for control, coordination and signal transmissions. These nerves are the very center of our life support, but at the same time they have to be soft and vulnerable. Only then they can react fast and sensitive, can keep... »
What Mother Nature had in mind
When human evolution came to its preliminary end we were hunters and gatherers. We were designed to spend our life in a constant change of rest and light exercise, very much the way we can see our children play. There were rare occasions when high performance was needed, and there were virtually no periods of extended low activity. Our days... »
Prevention first
You could fill a whole library with what has been written about all the good things we could and should do to our backs. But we are an ungrateful people when it comes down to our backs. Usually we do nothing and hardly ever we do enough. The excuses are as countless as the back problems, but hope shall never... »
I have to confess: I failed
This is what the figures tell us: you will not do any back care program, and you will suffer from problems with your back. You will have pain. Now the first thing you should do is to go to the “back school”. This is how programs are called that are designed to teach you and your back to find back to... »
I have no time
To make this very clear right in the beginning: there is no drug to cure back problems, and taking drugs against back problems is not back care but rather the lack of it. But this is how the world goes, so we will give some advice for all our far too many I-have-no-timers. Generally speaking non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, so called NSAID’s, have... »
Alternatives
If you do not do your exercises, do not want to go to back school, but also do not want to go the chemical way, there is an alternative rapidly winning followers. It includes a couple of traditional herbal alternatives, some familiar to you, others probably not. The first one would be essential peppermint oil. This is best applied in the way... »