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Back Pain

• Lower back pain
• Upper back pain
• Lumbar back pain
• Sciatica pain
• Sacral or sacroiliac pain

Also see: Neck pain

What causes back pain?

Many problems that cause back pain do not actually come from the back, but from the organs. Tension in the organs causes tension throughout the system and typically causes pain in the muscles of the back.

Back problems can come from lifting incorrectly. People are getting good about bending their knees, but if you bend your knees and twist, and you have a heavy load in your outstretched hands, it puts strain on your disks. The lumbar vertebrae have limited rotation possibilities, and twisting with a heavy load rotates them too much. Therefore, the disks are strained and put pressure on the nerve roots, causing back pain.

If you have taken a bad fall, this can also cause back pain, even if the fall was years ago! A fall on the coccyx, or tailbone, can be especially problematic down the road. Bones can hold old energy patterns. By releasing these patterns, you allow energy to move again and alleviate pain. If it is a recent injury, I can usually resolve it in a session or two. But it can be more complicated if there are layers of trauma from a very old injury, or several injuries to the same area. In this case, I will work with gentle pressure on the bones and nerve roots, and assign homework. Keeping up with the homework will speed up the process.

Sciatic pain sometimes comes from a spastic muscle which creates lower back pain that is similar to sciatica pain. It can be helped through pressure to the specific muscle, and developing awareness of how you are holding your body.

Treatment for back pain

With gentle, noninvasive pressure aimed at the bones or the roots of the organs, I can help your body release tension from these places, which then releases the tension from the back and relieves back pain. Many kinds of back pain or spinal pain can be treated easily, without drugs, in 2-4 treatments at my office in Charlottesville, Virginia.