Upper back surgery made the news earlier this year when U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln underwent a procedure to remove part of a herniated disc which was pinching a nerve in her back. What is particularly interesting about this surgery, beside the fact it was on a sitting U.S. Senator, is how uncommon the need for upper back surgery actually is.
Surgery for back pain is only performed in about 5% of all cases. And only 1% of all disc herniations occur in the thoracic, or upper back, due to its stability. This is good news for those with upper back pain: odds are high upper back surgery won’t be in your future.
While upper back surgery is still rare, upper back pain itself is becoming more common. Accidents, sports injuries, and other trauma can cause muscle sprains and worse. But an increasingly common cause of upper back pain is related to postural and strength issues, particularly for those who spend much of the day working on computers.
There are a number of natural health avenues one may consider for when dealing with upper back pain issues, including:
Muscle Balance Therapy uses targeted exercise and stretching to strengthen deconditioned muscles and stretch overly tight ones to relieve muscle pain and pressure on the spine.
Massage Therapy by a trained massage therapist can provide relief from upper back and increase joint mobility.
Trigger Point Therapy is used to relieve myofascial pain from irritated muscles, particularly common in the broad upper back and shoulder muscles.
The Alexander Technique, taught in private or group sessions, provides instruction on how to change movement habits to remove muscle restrictions and create more ease of movement. The Alexander Technique is particularly helpful for postural issues such as forward head posture and hunched shoulders.
Remember, except in cases of severe trauma your upper back pain did not happen overnight. It can take time to overcome the underlying causes of pain. But actively working towards better health naturally is almost always a better approach than what should be your last resort: upper back surgery.
Throw out your old-fashioned heating pad and take a look at this.
The photo above-left is an infrared photo showing the blood circulation of your average person’s back.
The yellow areas are spots where the blood circulation is poor and weak and the red spots where it is healthy and strong.
Most people’s circulation is terrible! Look at the picture — his whole back is one big yellow splotch.
The photo above-right is the same person after using a FAR Infrared Heating Pad. Look how healthy his circulation is. This is after barely an hour of soothing heat too.
If you’re trying to manage chronic back, neck or leg pain this Far Infrared Heating Pad could be the single greatest investment you’ll make all year. If you use it for just a 30 minute session, the pain relief actually lasts for up to SIX HOURS.
Even better, The Mayo Clinic reports Far Infrared Heat delivers amazing health benefits on top of helping reduce your back pain.
In a study published in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, The Mayo Clinic showed Far Infrared Heat therapy …
Significantly lowers your blood pressure
Helps you lose weight faster
Lowers your blood sugar
Significantly increases your blood flow and circulation
Lowers your cholesterol
And lowers your triglycerides (too much of this is linked to coronary artery disease)
The Mayo Clinic study suggests Far Infrared Heat therapy even lowers your risk of getting arteriosclerosis!
And you can get all these benefits without diets, exercises or months of treatments – NOT that those aren’t good for you! We should all eat right and exercise. But most of us could use a little extra help too.
You just can’t get the same fast transformation of your circulation from regular heat as a FAR Infrared Heating Pad can deliver.
“I bought this for my mother who has been suffering from back pain for over a decade, but when it arrived I wanted to try it out first. As you can guess, I loved it and had to buy another one for me! Thanks for letting me know about this great new product.”
–Richard S, Oceanside, CA
But here’s the catch…
These heating pads are flying off the shelves, and my sister Heather (she handles our product warehouse) is working overtime to make sure everyone who wants one can get one.
But we’ve gone on back-order FOUR TIMES in a row on these because they are so popular.
Right now we only have 55 units, but we have over 600,000 people following our updates–So these units are going to disappear quick… again.
So I urge you to pop over and take a look now because who knows how fast these 55 will go.
The creaky knees and achy back of old age are a well-known stereotype. Of course, it’s based in truth. As we age, muscles shorten and lose some elasticity. The soft tissues that hold joints together stiffen. Bones lose density.
Conventional medicine typically offers cover-up treatments for these naturally occurring changes. But these treatments do nothing to restore lost function.
They may relieve symptoms-and just as likely, they may not. But they don’t get at the root causes of the problems. They don’t offer cures.
Fortunately, natural medicine has many answers to the problem of painful muscles and joints that conventional medicine doesn’t offer. Here are two of the best.
By Steven Hefferon, PTA, CMT,
The Healthy Back Institute
If you’re suffering back pain, it may be that your vertebrae are compressed. Compression occurs naturally from the force of gravity, but becomes a health hazard when combined with an injury, poor posture or muscle imbalances.
This excessive, restrictive compression can cause slipped discs and nerve pressure… both causing pain. The way to correct this, is by de-compressing the spinal column.
Some conditions typically treated with spinal decompression include bulging or herniated discs, lumbar strains, sciatica, degenerative discs, spinal arthritis, degenerative joint disease, post-surgical low back pain, and acute back pain.
Read this immediately if you’ve ever used
massage to treat painful muscles, or plan to get
a therapeutic massage anytime in the near future
From the Desk of:
Steve Hefferon
I have a confession to make as a massage therapist.
If you’ve ever gotten a massage to treat muscle-pain in your neck & back, legs & hips or some other part of your body… you probably didn’t need to spend the money.
Because there are FOUR MAJOR FLAWS with massage therapy you should know about.
Massage Therapy Flaw #1: Massage is not a one-time fix for muscle pain. You feel great when you get one and for awhile afterwards.
But a week or two goes by and your muscles start to hurt again. For lasting relief you’ll need to go back often, and at $80-$150 a pop massage therapy gets very expensive over time.
Massage Therapy Flaw #2: Because it’s so expensive you put off going for months at a time. Some people almost never get the treatments they need for no other reason than they can’t afford them.
It’s a shame. You shouldn’t have to be Donald Trump to get relief from painful muscles.
Massage Therapy Flaw #3: You’re not getting instant treatment. You have to schedule a session, wait around with painful muscles for days or weeks.
It would be so much better if you could get a deep-tissue massage whenever you want it.
Massage Therapy Flaw #4: You can walk away feeling worse than before the massage. Some people hate getting deep-tissue massages because they feel so bad afterward.
Why? Because aggressive massage creates micro-tears in the muscles, often activating dormant trigger points, causing pain.
In a perfect world you’d have a personal
masseuse CAREFULLY massage away your aches and pains
each and every night…Well, say hello to a perfect world ….
You’re going to love this.
There is a way to get a “personal masseuse” to give you gentle, deep massages every day of the year – and you don’t have to spend $30,000 to keep him on staff.
I’m talking about a home massage-therapy system you can use right away to melt away the tiny knots in your muscles.
For about 40-cents a day you can get a daily deep-tissue massage to relive life’s aches and pains – with NONE of the drawbacks of traditional massage therapy…
You don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars all year long to get relief… You don’t need to put off getting your massage because it costs so much… You don’t have to wait a month in between massages …
You don’t need to suffer through aggressive massages because you’ll have all the time in the world to get a gentle massage …
Your headaches… neck & jaw pain…
back-pain… joint-pain… even the numbness
in your hands and feet – are all likely caused by trigger-points in your muscles!
Here at The Healthy Back Institute we’ve talked a lot about how trigger points – the tiny knots that form in your muscles – are the source of so many types of pain …
Discovered by President John F. Kennedy’s doctor, trigger points in muscles are increasingly becoming recognized as the cause of up 75% of muscle and tissue pain. Seventy-five percent!
These dime-sized landmines in your tissues cause your muscles to tighten and shorten. And because they tighten your muscles they start to change the way your body moves.
They limit the movement in one muscle causing it to weaken over time.
You’ve probably experienced trigger-point pain before – here’s how to tell for sure …
Have you ever tried to rub a sore, painful muscle and no matter what you did you couldn’t quite “get” to the painful spot?
Those are trigger points!
It’s called “referred pain” and it’s when the real cause of the pain is a point in the muscle but you FEEL the pain several inches away – so you can never quite find the perfect spot to massage.
I’d like to send you a 90 minute video
and a trigger-point guidebook to show you how to identify your body’s trigger-points
In them you’ll get an atlas of your body’s trigger-points so you can find the (often surprising) points to relieve pain you may have had for years – including …
Trigger-points causing mid-back pain
Trigger-points causing low-back pain
Trigger-points causing upper-back pain
Trigger points causing hip and leg pain
Trigger points causing neck pain
Trigger-points causing shoulder pain
And more!
Plus, you’ll get the home-treatment system that
applies deep pressure to silence your trigger-points
Developed by a board-certified neurological chiropractor, this advanced self-treatment system gives you a massage therapist on call.
Easy to use, it completely relaxes your muscles by using your body weight to apply deep, gentle pressure to trigger-points in your muscles.
Plus, your Trigger Point Self-Treatment System is really like having a small army of therapists to help you because you get special treatment techniques to fully deactivate your trigger points … Gentle Deep-Tissue Massage: If you’re body is sensitive you can use the Variable therapeutic compression technique to get relief without overworking your muscles …
Do-it-Yourself Myofascial Release: Experience amazing relief when you loosen and relax the spider-web of connective tissue running through your muscles …
Fibromyalgia? The Position Release Technique is perfect for you, if regular massage has ever hurt you, this methods is perfect …
Stretch Your Spine: You can even do spinal-traction and decompression with this system to relieve the effects of gravity on your spinal -system …
And that’s just for starters!
Plus your order is 100% RISK-FREE because you have
365 days (a FULL YEAR) to put it to the test…
I know not every solution is for everyone. Something that works miracles for one person doesn’t always help someone else.
That’s why we’re offering this fool-proof guarantee:
Try it out for a year and if at any time you’re not absolutely delighted with the relief you get by having an in-house self-massage system, just return it for a FULL AND COMPLETE REFUND.
Call us now toll-free at 1-800-216-4908 or order your system using our secure online shopping cart.
It’s simple. We’re out to help you, not soak you and we figure if we let you try it for a year you’ll LOVE the way it makes you feel.
Just to recap all the things you’ll get…
You’ll get a 90-Minute video explaining how to find all the trigger points causing you pain…
You’ll get treatment instructions so you know exactly how to get rid of your pain-causing trigger points…
You’ll get a Trigger-Point Guide Book detailing:
Step-by-step pictures of how to treat different types of pain…
A compete trigger-point guide showing over 27 major areas trigger points appear on your body…
How to find treatment points and what to do with them …
A pictorial treatment guide so you can SEE how to treat your painful muscles (this is the key)…
Special therapeutic techniques you can use to get the most out of the system…
The Trigger-Point Treatment Platform with 16 massage “digits” to fit all the nooks and crannies of your muscles to get rid of all types of pain…
Plus, you get a FULL YEAR to try the system out and be 100% confident that you absolutely love using it, or you can your MONEY-BACK.
Since there’s no risk to you, why not give it a shot? Why not get a massage every day? You deserve it! Plus you are going to just love how quickly you’ll be able to silence those nagging aches and pains!
Sincerely,
Steve Hefferon, CMT, PTA
P.S. Don’t take my word for it, ask the folks who’ve already used it…
“Incredible!”
“This system is incredible! I can move, run, and exercise again. It is fantastic to know that I can do something positive to get rid of my pain. I threw out all of my pills. Now I just pop on the system and dig out those trigger points.”
~Cindy T. Macon, GA
“I’m not in constant pain anymore!”
“My life is so much easier to handle without being in constant pain. The system has given me the freedom I was looking for. Everyone needs to try one!”
~Sam M. New York NY
“My whiplash is GONE!”
“Because of a whiplash injury, I had years of chronic upper back and neck pain, but not anymore! Thanks to this unique fantastic little device.”
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Upper back surgery made the news earlier this year when U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln underwent a procedure to remove part of a herniated disc which was pinching a nerve in her back. What is particularly interesting about this surgery, beside the fact it was on a sitting U.S. Senator, is how uncommon the need for upper back surgery actually is.
The creaky knees and achy back of old age are a well-known stereotype. Of course, it’s based in truth. As we age, muscles shorten and lose some elasticity. The soft tissues that hold joints together stiffen. Bones lose density.
If you’re suffering back pain, it may be that your vertebrae are compressed. Compression occurs naturally from the force of gravity, but becomes a health hazard when combined with an injury, poor posture or muscle imbalances.
From the Desk of:
Step-by-step pictures of how to treat different types of pain…
