Sciatica and Back Pain - What is the Real Cause?

As tightness builds up in a muscle due to poor circulation, that muscle becomes weak causing other muscles to have to compensate or carry the weight for it. These other muscles then start to overwork, fatigue and tighten up and the odds become higher that one of the joints in the spine will be put under an uneven pressure which will end up causing impingement, pain and inflammation.

The muscle imbalances that set all this up will usually be the underlying problem yet they are rarely considered or treated by most Doctors and therapists.

These imbalances can be confined to one area such as the back or shoulders, or spread throughout the whole body causing a pattern of tight muscles and pressure that eventually leads to weakness and pain.

Some treatments you get for pain will exercise and stretch you until your body compensates sufficiently that your pain goes away but it doesn't remove the imbalances, it just covers them up. You lose flexibility and have a negative effect on the circulation and strength in the body.

When we move, especially doing vigorous exercise, we exert a force which should be carried evenly throughout our whole body. But as a result of even a minor imbalance it is distributed unevenly throughout our muscle system causing compensations and the imbalance to spread deeper into the body. Especially when the body is unhealthy or weak and holds onto its tension.

Even though at any one time most people have imbalances and therefore the potential to injure themselves it will generally only becomes a problem and ends up a pain episode for people who push themselves beyond their body's limits through such things as an accident, or overuse in their work, sport or lifestyle.

Bending over at that particular angle to pick something up off the floor can be just a bit too much stretch for a muscle in the back that was already too tight and too weak to support the weight or pressure you were putting on it.

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