by Jesse Cannone, CFT, CPRS, MFT
The Healthy Back Institute
Winter is here and this is the time many people become less active, eat more, store more belly fat… and experience greater pain.
It’s the combination of less motion, more fat and colder weather that adds to our pain… and the low back in often the target.
Did you know that having a weak mid-section is one of the main culprits of low back pain? It’s true.
In fact, I’ll bet you didn’t know that even people who have “ripped” abs — the so-called six pack — may also suffer from low back pain resulting from weak abs.
Flat bellies and tight abdominal muscles do not guarantee that the correct “structure supporting” core muscles are developed sufficiently… or equally. In many cases they are not, which causes the low back to sway, the hips to tilt, the upper back to hunch and the neck to cramp. All this causes pain.
A lack of strength in the lower and transverse abdominals is a MAJOR contributor to back pain. Click here to learn my prescription for correcting this imbalance… In the process you will learn how to shed those unwanted pounds around the mid-section, how to properly strengthen the supporting core muscles, and how to prevent back pain caused by their weak abdominals.
Here at The Healthy Back Institute we’re HUGE fans of inversion therapy for two BIG reasons:
First, because it feels fantastic on your back. You just don’t realize how much pressure your spine is under all-day, everyday until you finally take some pressure off of it. Inversion relaxes all of the little supporting muscles of your spine – it’s just a great feeling.
The second reason we love inversion is because it works so well to relieve so many people’s back-pain.
My wife was in tears from the pain …
because of inversion she’s her old self again!
“My wife suffered from severe sciatica for four months. During that time the pain progressed from a mildly annoying feeling in her upper right thigh to a stabbing, burning pain which ran the complete length of her leg.
“It’s important you understand that my wife has an extremely high pain tolerance, however this pain reduced her to tears many nights. Sleep was impossible. Finally I purchased your inversion table. In less than one week she was sleeping again and the pain had diminished considerably. We’ve owned the table now for about 4 weeks. My wife uses it two to three times a day, for about 6 minutes a session. She is her old self again, sleeps fine and is pain free. The folks at the spine clinic wanted to discuss surgery with her. Purchasing your inversion table was the best thing we ever did.”
–J. Luper, Salt Lake City, UT
I’ve got osteoarthritis.
Inversion relieved 3 years of my back and neck pain!
“I am a 43 year old female who has been stricken with osteoarthritis. People look at me and see a vibrant, healthy looking person, but they have no idea what’s happening on the inside of my body. I have suffered with lower back and neck pain for three year’s now. For the past three month’s I have been inverting, and cannot begin to describe the relief I have experienced. I would like to encourage anyone sitting on the fence about inversion, to jump off and try it. You have nothing to lose but sleepless nights and long hours of discomfort.”
–S. MacLeod, via e-mail
So if you haven’t considered Inversion Therapy before — but would like to learn a little more about it — we put a video together for you.
If you’re pain is too big a part of your life — and you’re serious about finding new ways to relieve it so you can get on with doing the things you love — you should really give inversion some serious thought.
I hope you’ll take a minute or two to watch the video and give inversion some serious thought if you’re looking for ways to get faster, more immediate pain relief.
Tired all the time? Hate to get out of bed in the morning? Need to jumpstart yourself with coffee, Red Bull, salty or sugary snacks? Do you only feel at your best after 6 PM?
Your problem may be what is being called “Adrenal Fatigue” (AF). You look and act like the same old you and show no symptoms of physical illness, yet you go through the day feeling “gray,” tired or unwell. Sleeping doesn’t seem to
help.
AF affects an estimated 80% of people who live in industrialized countries. It threatens anybody who experiences ongoing or intense emotional or physical stress. AF also contributes to health problems ranging from allergies to obesity.
Mainstream medicine hushes up the adrenal fatigue story. Could you or someone you know be suffering from the syndrome your MD does not want to talk about?
Everyone loses muscle strength as they get older, and that’s a normal part of aging… right?
Well, yes and no. Let me explain.
No matter how old you are, your muscle tissue–like all other tissues–continuously breaks down. But like other tissues, it can be built back up.
When you’re young, that rebuilding comes naturally with the general activity of life, and it’s enhanced, of course, with exercise. But as people age, many of them stop being active. They don’t go to the gym. They barely get off the couch.
So they don’t do what’s necessary to rebuild the muscle tissue they are losing.
Over time, they lose so much muscle mass they have trouble even with everyday activities like climbing stairs, opening jars and carrying bags of groceries.
by James B. LaValle,
Pharmacist, Nutritionist, Naturopath
The discovery of “leptin” in 1994 created an explosion of interest in the “biology of white adipose tissue” – otherwise known as FAT. You probably remember those photos of seriously obese mice sitting next to their slender littermates – and the only difference between them was that the thin ones had been given this magic substance called leptin?
Major pharmaceutical companies embarked on a flurry of research, trying to discover the next “Blockbuster Drug for Weight Control,” and hoped to make a killing selling expensive drugs to desperate people.
But the results of what scientists, clinicians, and consumers have discovered since then, may turn out to be more useful to you and me than to the drug companies.
I’ve been talking about FAT as something that promotes inflammation for a very long time. I’ve also been warning my patients about dangers of the downward spiral from FAT and inflammation into serious and life-threatening illnesses.
“Managing” your FAT is a very complex process and there probably isn’t any one single pill that will ever be able to act as a “magic bullet,” and do the whole job for you. But the good news is that there are some practical strategies that may also have emerged from all the research that’s been done. And the LaValle Metabolic Institute (LMI) has more than a decade of clinical experience treating FAT and inflammation – and preventing the illnesses they can cause.
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Winter is here and this is the time many people become less active, eat more, store more belly fat… and experience greater pain.
Tired all the time? Hate to get out of bed in the morning? Need to jumpstart yourself with coffee, Red Bull, salty or sugary snacks? Do you only feel at your best after 6 PM?
Everyone loses muscle strength as they get older, and that’s a normal part of aging… right?
The discovery of “leptin” in 1994 created an explosion of interest in the “biology of white adipose tissue” – otherwise known as FAT. You probably remember those photos of seriously obese mice sitting next to their slender littermates – and the only difference between them was that the thin ones had been given this magic substance called leptin?
