Back pain

Muscle tension that leads to back pain can have various causes: poor posture, a sedentary lifestyle and lack of physical exercise, stress, negative emotional states.

Various measures can be taken: from doing sports, which promotes blood filling and improves microcirculation in the muscles, to massages of various kinds, muscle relaxants and anti-inflammatory drugs. Pills cannot become a permanent solution to the problem, since their long-term use causes side effects.

One thing can be said for certain: as long as the subluxation of the cervical vertebrae and the biomechanical “collapse” of the spine persist, the skeletal muscles will not be able to stay relaxed, and back pain caused by muscle tension will sooner or later return, whatever the person does.

If stress and toxemia of the body’s internal environments are added to poor posture, the negative effect is multiplied, the pain threshold is quickly reached, and a self-sustaining vicious circle is set in motion.

Treatment of the cervical spine and restoration of the functions of the head joints at Body Balance Clinic is, of course, not a solution to everyday problems related to stress and lack of physical activity. But it can help stabilize the head’s center of gravity. This will lead to noticeable improvements in posture and biomechanics. The changed lever arm, resulting from the correct distribution of the weight of the head onto the underlying parts of the spine, will reduce the load on the vertebrae and intervertebral discs and lead to general muscle relaxation, improving their microcirculation. In this way, back pain can be relieved, up to its complete disappearance.

The main role of the head joints and the first two cervical vertebrae is that they must constantly balance the head with the least expenditure of energy. If the function of the head joints is impaired and the head is constantly displaced relative to the vertical axis of the body, the muscles of the neck and upper thoracic region will compensate for the underperformance of the head joints and be in constant overstrain.

Over time, this constant imbalance leads to the tense muscles losing their blood supply due to chronic overstrain; tissue degeneration gradually occurs, fibrosis develops, and then pain in the neck, shoulders and back, especially if the person leads a sedentary lifestyle and eats unhealthily. As a rule, muscle contractures and pain occur only on the side of the body to which the center of gravity is displaced, although in extreme cases they can spread to both sides.

With regular massage, muscle pain and back pain can be temporarily relieved by improving microcirculation (as with sports). But if the fibrosis in the muscles is not eliminated, nor the cause of the spinal imbalance (head joints dysfunction), back pain will inevitably return after a while. It is a matter of time. 

1. Restoring the correct function of the cervical spine leads to positive changes in the biomechanics of the entire spine. Immediately after the correction, muscle tension eases throughout the entire back and neck at once on a long-term basis. Which is exactly what a patient suffering from pain needs.

2. The Body Balance correction eliminates the biomechanical cause of back pain, significantly improves posture and prevents the future occurrence of muscle tension, which then leads to back and neck pain.

3. The Body Balance correction, especially the extended version, makes it possible to get rid of fibrosis in the muscles of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine for good.

The end result: While the Body Balance Clinic methods rid your muscles of fibrosis and relieve their tension in the present, the Body Balance correction reveals its effect in the long term.