Posts Tagged ‘therapy’
Sacroiliac and Low Back Pain
Sacroiliac joint dysfunction is often the undiagnosed cause of low back pain. Excerpts from “Understanding Sacroiliac joint Pain and What You Can Do About It”
Duration : 0:6:35
Massage Techniques : Deep Tissue Massage: Lower Back
When massaging the deep lower back tissues, use a kneading motion in order to attack the appropriate muscles. Find out more about massaging the deep lower back tissues from a masseur in this free massage video.
Expert: Bil Mitchell
Contact: www.liveclose.org
Bio: Bil Mitchell has been practicing massage therapy since 1992. He has worked with private clinics, physicians and resorts.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Duration : 0:1:18
How I Ended My Lower Back Pain – Part 9: Gazelle Freestyle
Eliptical trainers are great for people with bad knees who want to walk and possibly get an aerobic workout. And the Gazelle Freestyle is considered by some to be the “poor man’s eliptical trainer.” But this gem of a $175 machine has become a very important part of my lower back pain solution.
It’s not really an eliptical trainer, and if it were, it woudn’t do much for my low back. Most eliptical trainers have a fixed or variable “stride” that might be as long as 20 inches or slightly more. The Gazelle Freestyle lets you have whatever stride your legs are capable of. So if you take long strides, it gives you a tremendous thigh stretch along with a great aerobic workout. But if you just walk with this machine, you won’t get much out of it.
It’s a really fun machine to use, and I need fun in order to sustain this daily workout. If you’ve ever done a “runner’s stretch,” you’re stretching the same thigh muscles that this machine stretches in a long stride workout. You can’t get this workout by running. You can’t maintain the kind of sprint that this strid requires for long without getting totally exhausted. But I can do a 20-minute aerobic workout on the Gazelle Freestyle at full stride. I don’t do that every day though. I generally do 10 minutes at full stride, and in addition to the aerobic workout, I get a stretch like nothing I’ve ever had with any other machine or exercise.
My back pain over the 8 year period that I lived with it, often traveled down my sciatic nerves into one leg or the other. The Gazelle Freestyle in full stride gives my upper thigh muscles & tendons a good workout and stretch, and keeps everything in good working order. I don’t have a hint of sciatic pain any more, and I think this machine is one of the main reasons.
Duration : 0:3:46
Back Pain, avoidance and rehab
In this video I’m going to cover how to prevent lower back injuries and what to do if you have the misfortune of having a lower back injury. The best way to handle back injuries is to prevent them from happening in the first place! Here is what YOU can do to prevent lower back injuries:
work your core (crunches, planks, supermans)
stretch you hamstrings daily (helps lift properly)
lift properly (quad strength)
I was clearly doing the rehab exercises for real, I’m not a good enough actor to fake pain 
The reason I wanted to do this video while I was having back trouble was that all the videos out there illustrating these rehab exercises seem to have been done by people who have never had back pain. I wanted this to be real so people could relate.
Duration : 0:11:56
Piriformis Muscle Stretch
http://www.lower-back-pain-toolkit.com
A useful stretch for the piriformis muscle. This muscle sometimes tightens or becomes painful. This can either directly irritate the sciatic nerve or can mimic sciatic nerve pain. See more about piriformis on my website. www.lower-back-pain-toolkit.com
Duration : 0:2:26
