How To Stop Back Pain With Rolfing Structural Integration

(0:00) In the first video, I’m going talk about structural integration and how it works

(0:04) well for back pain.

(0:05) One of the primary reasons why people come into my

(0:09) office is for back pain

(0:10) and for most people, they’re experiencing

(0:13) lower back pains somewhere in this lumbar region,

(0:23) and sometimes with numbness in the legs and such,

(0:26) people will get mid-back tightness and pain,

(0:30) and upper back tightness and pain.

(0:33) So the thing about

(0:37) lower back pain, to start with,

(0:40) is that lower back pain can be the result of a couple of different

(0:44) situations.

(0:45) One, either this lower back area is extremely tight and compressed

(0:49) which happens often if a person has a very strong stomach muscle or they have

(0:54) a valley

(0:55) or if they’re in spasm down here –

(0:59) sometimes it will spasm up and it’ll be completely tight.

(1:02) The other low back pain

(1:05) situation I often see is where the upper and middle back are extremely tight

(1:10) and the lower back is completely loose –

(1:13) It’s the exact opposite where there is no stability.

(1:17) So either way you create a situation where the lower back curve flattens out

(1:21) and you get a weight bearing on

(1:28) the vertebrae and on the intervertebral discs

(1:31) which will sometimes push them into the spinal nerves that come out of the spine here

(1:36) and surge from various areas are the the body. For some people

(1:40) it’s more a muscular issue. For some people it’s degenerated into a more of a

(1:45) nerve and soft tissue degeneration issue.

(1:49) So depending on how far along you are, the

(1:53) less far along you are the more quickly you’ll experience relief –

(1:57) that’s for low back. If you’re far along in the process,

(2:01) you will still experience relief, but it will take longer.

(2:04) I don’t know of anything that works better for

(2:08) long-term disc problems or

(2:12) alike. Now, short term – different story,

(2:18) absolutely. Short term lower back pain and tightness,

(2:22) rolfing is great for that. We loosen up the area in the lower back.

(2:25) For the lower back situation where it’s too loose,

(2:30) where it’s too loose and the upper and middle back is tight, that’s great because we

(2:34) loosen up the middle and upper back – all this in the first session,

(2:39) the very first session. So the first session is a

(2:43) fabulous session for lower back pain, any kind of back in general, because we work

(2:48) all along the back

(2:49) and all along the front of the torso and the connectors,

(2:52) the main connectors, to the pelvic girdle

(2:56) into the shoulder girdle. So, for

(3:00) any kind of back pain, the first session of structural integration is a fabulous

(3:04) start. I encourage you to try it. Know that I never ask people to come in and do

(3:10) an entire series. People will call me and be interested in that and I’ll just tell them

(3:13) “No”.

(3:14) Try a session, see if it’s going to work for you,

(3:17) and then make the decision. When you feel

(3:20) the change in your body, a change in your body that you’ve never felt before,

(3:23) something that has changed your body in a way that you’ve never experienced before,

(3:28) that’s powerful, and you’ll either feel that you won’t and if you do,

(3:32) why then, it’ll make sense probably to do more. If you don’t,

(3:36) why then, it probably won’t make sense for you to do more –

(3:39) either one is fine. Tomorrow I’ll send you another video

(3:44) for the series. It’s not going to be on back pain – it’ll be on a different

(3:47) topic.

(3:48) See you then.