The Soaz Body

This is What a Soaz Body Feels Like

The Soaz Body is a body that is well aligned has good posture and has great movement. unfortunately most people who I see when they come to me have none of these.

Many come in with back pain or hip and leg pain  and have lost their flexibility and movement. They don’t see the connection between their pain in their back and their bad posture. They don’t have the Soaz body.

So the first thing I need to do is fix their posture and flexibility. I do that with the Soaz method I have evolved over several years.

This is What a Soaz Body Feels Like

When the body has good posture and movement their back pain will organically heal the body will be flexible and their breathing will improve they will have more energy and be able to do things they have not been able to do for many years.

See The Link Below How The Soaz Method Treats

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Low back pain affects around 80% of the population globally and is treated more by musculoskeletal therapists  (Physiotherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths) than any other single area of the body. It is also the area where patients continue to get repeat episodes throughout their life: despite having conventional treatment regimes.

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

The below statement was what was written in our physiotherapy journal recently about low back pain that was taken from a world wide study over a two year period involving the best medical people on the planet on back pain.

“Low back pain is a major global burden that is getting worse as the population ages”

“it’s time for a change”

From this study there is a call to address this by changing the way we think about pain and treatment approaches.

We need to shift focus from passive therapies like interferential and ultrasound for which there is little evidence of effectiveness in low back pain.

I would also add mobilisations and manipulations.

As the developer of the Soaz method, I believe I have found a new approach because it does not just focus on Pain relief but also delivers better movement and balance to the body.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

This is what will keep the body in its optimal condition.

Posturepro is the Home of the Soaz Method

Book online NOW if you have ongoing back pain

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Think of your body like a car with bad alignment. The car will start to wear out the tyres and other areas of the car. So you go into the garage and hope it will be fixed. But if the mechanic is only changing the tyres then that car will continue to have damage and wear and tear.

Your Body Needs To Have Good Posture and Alignment

This video below demonstrates how most people come to have damage and wear and tear to their body.  These Huge forces your Psoas muslces are responsible for the bad alignment in your body and the wear and tear and Pain this will cause.

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This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

So just having your pain area treated is like the mechanic just changing the tyres and not fixing the alignment issue.

At Posturepro Physiotherapy We know How To Change Your Body Alignment

When You have good alignment then you should not be getting pain.

A short leg is an indication of a distorted pelvis –

and because your spine sits on top of the pelvis the spine also  becomes compromised – so unless you have a short leg because of a loss of length in your leg bones due to a very bad accident or you have a genetic problem that affects the leg length (very small percentage) – in the majority of cases the leg length is produced by imbalances in your Psoas muscles. This directly impacts the pelvis leading to low back pain and creating the distortions – when the leg length is not addressed in low back or hip pain and only the pain is treated then your pain will return.

At Posturepro we specialize in knowing how to adjust leg length leading to a stable pelvis that remains balanced  and maintains your spinal health.

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This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

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Suffering from Pain in the Back?

The upside of Back Pain is that it is there to warn you that something is not right. But there is a lot of confusion about Back Pain in the minds of many people as to how to get relief and even more confusing is Who to see.

Should I see a Chiropractor or a Physiotherpist or one of the many other therapists out there.

One of the questions I always get asked by my clients is “What is the difference between a Chiro and a Physio?”

I like to answer by differentiating between both of them and Soaztherapy.

Soaztherapy is a totally 360 degree different approach to Back Pain, SIJ pain, Hip pain, Sciatic pain, Groin and Pelvic pain.

Soaztherapy looks at the symptom which is Back Pain and treats what Causes Back Pain. It does not treat the Pain in the back.

I liken it to a car that has bad alignment. The result (symptoms) are premature wear and tear on the tyres and other structures. You cant just keep changing the tyres but this is foolish. You must get the alignment checked and corrected.

In your body the alignment is your Posture.

If your Posture is not optimal then you will always be having pain.

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At Posturepro we know how to get your ‘alignment’ to its optimal and stop your pain in the Back symptoms.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

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Why Does My Back Hurt When I Stand Up?

When You sit your postural muscles shorten. Then when you stand up they unwind too quickly and like a spring they release very quickly and come to a point where they cannot unwind any more.

This limit of movement into a backward or extended position continues to repeat every time we go to stand up.

Eventually the opposite muscles to these never totally get back to their ‘home’ position. This results in these (Back Muscles) not working properly. They loose the ability to nourish themselves and become ischemic (lacking blood) when this happens these muscles then start to dehydrate and deteriorate. They then become painful.

This is why you feel pain into your back. But this is not where the problem is. This is where you feel your pain but it is not where you go to treat that pain.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

If you want to be rid of your ‘Back’ pain for good, you need to treat the Psoas.

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If you want to be rid of your ‘Back’ pain for good, you need to treat the Psoas.

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Stretching and the Psoas Muscles

If you are in a Yoga class where you are being directed by the teacher to stretch your Psoas muscles before they are fluid and responsive, you risk tearing the muscle fibrils (the millions of structures that make up the complete muscle) and therefore damaging the muscles.

The very act of trying to stretch aggressively any muscle when it is still tight will be counterproductive in the long run and each time you try and re-stretch that muscle there will be a psychological barrier from the brain not wanting it to be stretched.

The first place to start is to Enable your Psoas muscle to be soft and fluid before you actively stretch it.

The Soaz method can do that very quickly and allow you to start your yoga Psoas stretch without fear of damage to the muscle.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

3D video

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

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Sitting, Back Pain and the Psoas Muscle

Have you wondered about why the latest push for stand-up desks is gaining in support and popularity?

Well, it is because when we are sitting our Psoas muscles are under huge compression and shearing forces particularly over our low lumbar spine. This force over many years starts a cascade of events happening in your spine causing disc and ligament and nerve damage leading to pain.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Initially you may just feel a stiffness or discomfort after sitting, so you stand up and have a bit of a backward stretch, find something else to do for a while that does not require sitting. This seems to help for a short period. Then you go back and sit and there it is again, that low back pain. You might go and have a massage and that feels so much better for a short while. So you continue like this until the sitting has now become so uncomfortable that you find yourself getting up more frequently and now the stiffness is becoming real pain.

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You finally decide this is needing some professional help so you seek out a musculoskeletal therapist (physiotherapist, chiropractor, osteopath or maybe a remedial therapist).

After several treatments the pain and discomfort seem to have gone. Until one day your out digging in the garden or your playing footy with the kids and Oh no there is pain in your back again.

After a few more sessions with your chosen therapist you realise that your back is feeling better but it is still returning on a regular basis and now its starting to go into your buttock or maybe down into the top part of your leg.

So you visit  your G.P. to see what they recommend. They may suggest an X-ray or a cat scan of your back. You go and have these done and what do they show. They show wear of the discs and L4/5 level with some osteophytic formation around those areas, narrowing of the disc spaces and maybe even a bulged disc or even a herniated disc with impingement of the thecal sac.

Now you are really worried. Your GP might suggest continuing on with your musculoskeletal therapist or they might suggest you see an Orthopaedic specialist.

So now you are on the pain train. Medications are prescribed anti-inflamatories and come back and see me in a couple of weeks. If your leg pain gets worse you may even be advised to see a neurosurgeon.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

The Soaz method that is the methodology of treating the Psoas muscle at Posturepro physiotherapy for back and many other pain problems  starts with the Psoas muscles that cause the Back pain. We do not start with treating where the back pain is felt (in the back) because this is not going to reverse the compression forces off of the spine and so these forces will still remain.

The Soaz method for back pain enables non surgical spinal decompression to occur. Taking the compression off of the spine and discs and enabling the body to start natural healing.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

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Non Surgical  Decompression for Back Pain

The video below shows our Huge Psoas Major muscles that sit directly onto our low spine. These are our walking muscles and so when we are upright and walking or running they are Elongated so they can work properly.

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When we are sitting or our hips are in a fully flexed position then these muscles Compress and become short

and are not able to work. In fact they become so compressed that over time from when we start sitting as babies and right through our school and working life we are predominantly sitting these muscles become chronically tight and unresponsive.

The Psoas Muscles Create Damage To Our Spine and Discs

As you can see in the above video these muscles are so powerful that they not only compress our low spine causing damage and pain but they change our whole posture and alignment in the body. So powerful are they that affect our whole body.

Back pain is the result of a compressed and tight muscle that sits directly onto our spine.

These muscles (our psoas muscles) are our walking muscles. They are constantly under compression from sitting. Over time the muscles take on a shortened position and by doing this they compress the spine, discs and nerves in the low back particularly. This compression results in damage to these structures and pain in the low back is the result.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Posture pro are able to Reverse this Compression and Get Your Back Pain Resolved

To just treat the low back pain is like patching up a crack in the wall of a house instead of addressing the foundations of the house.

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This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

Here at Posturepro the Soaz method can achieve non surgical Lumbar spinal decompression that starts to reverse this process and realign the spine.

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Leg and Buttock Pain – Physio Treatment

Soaz Therapy for leg and buttock pain

A Woman aged 52 having left sided back, leg and buttock pain with pins and needles into the foot, came to see me.  She has had the problem for 5 years. Having trouble walking, sitting at work and lying on her left side at night was what brought on her leg and buttock pain.

She had seen various other therapists over this time.

Functional movements were as follows: could only bend forward to touch top of knees.  Her turning movements were tight on the right to about half.

Apart from her leg and buttock pain, her neck movement to the right was also about half range of movement.

After only 2 visits this lady reported feeling 75% better with her leg and buttock.  She was able to bend to touch the floor and her turning movement had improved to full.

She was able to sleep on her L side pain free and also was able to sit at work pain free.

All this without going to her back, where her pain was.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

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Chronic Back pain and the Psoas Muscle

How does chronic low back pain become chronic?  This is a bit like asking why do we just keep changing the tyre on our car that continues to wear out instead of looking at the Alignment in the car in the very beginning.

Why are we treating low back pain where the pain is felt. Because musculoskeletal therapists are trained to do that. We have been educated in treating pain where the pain is felt. But this is not working.

The evidence that it is not working is the increasing number of people worldwide suffering from ongoing low back pain and the increase in the cost of WorkCover payouts for people that never get rid of back pain regardless of all of the conventional and recommended treatment regimes, they are exposed to. These protocols are based solely on focusing on where the back pain is felt without asking the question of why do we have back pain.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

The biomechanics of the Psoas muscles strategic placement along the lumbar spine makes it the prime contender to be the structure creating the compression forces over the lumbar spine resulting in damage to the discs, ligaments and nerves in that area.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

This is why the Soaz Method does not treat back pain where it is felt, but rather the structures that create the damage in the low spine: the Psoas muscles.

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and watch the video below & see how the psoas muscles work

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What does Neck Pain have to do with Back Pain?

In my last post I posed the question about the connection between neck and headache pain and low back pain.

This gets to the heart of what we do at Posturepro physiotherapy. We approach your body as a machine with all the interconnecting parts working in harmony with each other.

What we don’t do is compartmentalise the body into seperate areas: neck, low back, hip, groin, and shoulder pain etc and treat those seperately and charge you for each seperate area.

Our method begins by starting at the foundation of your body (think of this as the alignment in a car) and when we do this the body changes all over naturally.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

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We have found a way to resolve Low back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and headaches, by first starting with the most important area; the one that determines how well the rest of your body functions (the body’s ability to work and function like a well oiled machine).

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Posturepro is the Home of the Soaz Method

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This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

Also, Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

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What do Back Pain and Headaches have in Common?

The postural muscles: our Psoas muscles.

When our very powerful Psoas muscles are tight and unable to be flexible they have already changed our posture.

When the posture is not aligned it means that our spine and our other joints in our body are compromised. This means they are not working as they should be or could

be. Think of a car driving with bad alignment and the damage this is causing to the car.  Not only are the tyres wearing out sooner, but other areas are also not going to work in the way they are meant to.  How much more important is our body to keep this working in it’s optimal condition than a car?

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

If you think of the spine in engineering terms it is one unit. When one end of that unit is changed it simultaneously changes the whole unit.

When the Psoas muscles distort the lower spine, the spine is affected all the way along right up into the cervical spine where the majority of headaches originate.

So, further up the spine the neck becomes Lordotic meaning that this changes where our head needs to be placed over the spine and this produces a forward head posture.  This neck and head posture is placing a lot of strain onto the back neck muscles that over the course of the day become over worked and tired and restricting the blood flow into our head.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

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Back, Hip and Groin pain

What do these areas have in common?  The Psoas muscle.

Our Psoas muscle compresses over our low spine discs and nerves that service the hip, back and groin areas of our body.

The common denominator for pain in these areas is the Psoas muscle.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

So why are we treating the back, the hip and the groin instead of the structure that is causing the pain in these areas?

The Psoas muscles are under huge compression and shearing forces while we are sitting and have adapted to become short and unresponsive over our life.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

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Back pain in particular, continues to be one of the hardest problematic areas for musculoskeletal therapists to conquer. The statistics show us that we are not winning the war on back pain with conventional methodologies of treatment.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

Posturepro is the Home of the Soaz Method

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Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

The Soaz Method has proven to be effective in treating these areas and with support in the correct areas ongoing results can be realised.

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The Soaz Body

This is What a Soaz Body Feels Like

The Soaz Body is a body that is well aligned has good posture and has great movement. unfortunately most people who I see when they come to me have none of these.

Many come in with back pain or hip and leg pain  and have lost their flexibility and movement. They don’t see the connection between their pain in their back and their bad posture. They don’t have the Soaz body.

So the first thing I need to do is fix their posture and flexibility. I do that with the Soaz method I have evolved over several years.

This is What a Soaz Body Feels Like

When the body has good posture and movement their back pain will organically heal the body will be flexible and their breathing will improve they will have more energy and be able to do things they have not been able to do for many years.

See The Link Below How The Soaz Method Treats

copy 3D video

Book In Your Free Consult with Posturepro Now 

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Low back pain affects around 80% of the population globally and is treated more by musculoskeletal therapists  (Physiotherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths) than any other single area of the body. It is also the area where patients continue to get repeat episodes throughout their life: despite having conventional treatment regimes.

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

The below statement was what was written in our physiotherapy journal recently about low back pain that was taken from a world wide study over a two year period involving the best medical people on the planet on back pain.

“Low back pain is a major global burden that is getting worse as the population ages”

“it’s time for a change”

From this study there is a call to address this by changing the way we think about pain and treatment approaches.

We need to shift focus from passive therapies like interferential and ultrasound for which there is little evidence of effectiveness in low back pain.

I would also add mobilisations and manipulations.

As the developer of the Soaz method, I believe I have found a new approach because it does not just focus on Pain relief but also delivers better movement and balance to the body.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

This is what will keep the body in its optimal condition.

Posturepro is the Home of the Soaz Method

Book online NOW if you have ongoing back pain

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Predicting Your Back Pain

As a physiotherapist with 3 decades of experience Ive witnessed first hand how the Psoas Major muscles profoundly affect the low spine.   I can already predict when someone has back pain.  All I have to do is look at how they are walking.  I see evidence of this every day in just observing people in the street and how they are limited in the way they move through the pelvis and groin area.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

This continuous compression force over our low spine and discs leads to damage shifting our pelvic alignment and distorting our spine.

Someone with tight over compressed Psoas muscles  cannot move or bend or walk well they are stiff and they are not able to extend their leg to full stride length. Their pelvis rotates over the stiff hip in an effort to gain more forward movement: and in doing that the cartilage starts to wear out on that hip.

It’s important to understand that simply treating the symptom ( the back pain) itself does not get to the root cause of the back pain.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

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I think it’s a tragedy, because not only will their back pain not resolve but they will probably be sent off to an orthopedic surgeon for a hip replacement.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

Get your Psoas muscles treated and free up your spine and hip naturally.

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Most people have tight overworked Psoas muscles.  This comes about from our constant sitting positions which compresses the Psoas muscles and creates huge forces onto the low spine and discs.

These forces are responsible for ruptured discs: usually the L4/5 levels resulting in Back pain.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness.  See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

The Psoas muscles are strategically placed into the pelvis also; and their ability to put huge pressure onto the bladder and the bowel has been documented in various medical journals.  So the Psoas can affect the Pelvic floor and the back.

I also think these huge muscles could be responsible and contributing to weak pelvic floor muscles: the ‘sling muscles’ as they are known are the group that are targeted in people with incontinence to strengthen them. Why? Because the bladder sits just below these muscles producing huge compression forces over the bladder.

So the current reasoning is that if we strengthen these sling muscles then that will help with stress incontinence.

I would like to propose a different rationale that looks at this in a different way.  I have enabled many women with stress incontinence to achieve good resolution to their incontinence through treating only the Psoas muscles.

So the pelvic floor the psoas and the back can be considered to be interconnected.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

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This is what I think is contributing to incontinence. The Psoas muscles are huge forces pushing downwards into the Pelvic cavity.  If we can stop or at least reverse this push onto the bladder from above then start to soften and make the Psoas muscles more fluid: then the pressure from above can be greatly reduced onto the bladder.

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Headache Pain Starts in the Pelvis!

Headaches predominantly are caused from bad postural alignment of the spine.

The spine forces the neck and head into a forward position, moving the centre of gravity forward – the Psoas muscles that sit in our low spine and pelvic area are responsible for changing our spinal alignment and this change, then changes the upper spine. This is why I say that headache pain starts in the pelvis.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

The Upper Spine Is Bent Forward Bringing Our Head With It

The result is that this forward head position creates a need for the muscles in the back of our neck to have to work very hard to hold our head up.

This constant repetitive need on these muscles means they are working overtime to try and correct the forward pull from gravity.

Therefore, headaches are a secondary cause brought about by our postural muscles (the Psoas muscles) being tight and forcing us to have an inward curve in our low spine – resulting in an outward curve further up the spine.

Repetitive Headaches Are An Indication That Your Posture Is Not Good.

Here at Posturepro we specialize in Reversing Poor Postural Alignment.

Poor posture is not corrected by pulling your shoulders back or wearing a posture brace.

Posture can only be corrected by treating and reversing the structure that causes bad posture. That is what we do here at our clinic.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

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So to resolve headache and neck pain, come and see us and have your posture changed first to achieve the best results.

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The Soaz Method has treated many headaches and neck problems by sorting out the posture first.

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Why Can’t I get my Back Pain better?

As a physiotherapist of 25 plus years experience: I almost left the profession

when I first started. I thought I was a failure and I was so upset because I wondered why my patients were returning with the same Back pain after I treated them.

I thought I must have missed something in physio class.

I use to lay awake at night and wonder what I could do to do better. Don’t get me wrong my patients were getting better and they were very grateful for my treatment. However, I was not feeling satisfied.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

It was at that time that I started to look outside of physiotherapy to other methods of trying to achieve the best results for my patients.

I studied Acupuncture, Bowen therapy, Reiki , Myofascial techniques, Aromatherapy and started to apply some of these into my traditional physiotherapy treatments. People loved these adjuncts to their treatment and I was getting busier.

It was not until many years and lots of treatments later that I realised that returning back pain was what was happening

with all other therapists. Then I ‘got it’  this is how it works. We as therapists rely on our clients returning with the same Back, hip, sciatic pain, neck pain because its how we keep our businesses going.

So it was in my formative years in physiotherapy that I embraced looking at the body in a different way and still do. At Posturepro, I have been using a method to treat Back pain and any other pain in the body with only starting with movement and posture first. This method has proven to resolve back pain and allow my clients to achieve movement and postural changes that had alluded them with other treatment approaches. This is method I embrace at my clinic for all of my clients.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

3D video

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The New Movement Method for Headaches

Why do so many people suffer from ongoing Headaches and neck pain?  Bad Posture!

How Does Bad Posture Become Bad Posture?

Most people do not know the answer to this question. I did not know it until I discovered the structure in the body that changes our posture.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Our Postural Muscles are in our Stomach

The Psoas muscles are our walking muscles and they are constantly being compressed through the amount of sitting that we do from way back when we are sitting as babies.

The compression force from these muscles over our low spine is Huge, and it is this compression that starts to distort and change our spine.

So these muscles begin a cascade of events along our whole spine including our low spine and our upper spine. The new movement for headaches is able to redress these postural changes and get your neck into a more aligned position.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

3D video

By Reversing The Distortion In Your Neck Your Headaches Should Resolve

So the traditional approach to headaches is to treat the top part of your neck. This will get you only short term relief because until you resolve the bad alignment and postural issues this alignment will not change and so your headaches keep returning.

WHY?  Because when we sit our Huge Postural muscles Compress and shear our lumbar spine and the compression forces are so huge that they damage the discs and distort the spine and that is the beginning of Back pain.

When these postural muscles  distort our low spine, the upper spine also changes

pushing our head and neck into a forward position. This forward position is the beginning of headaches and neck pain.

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Why do many Women ‘Leak’ when they work out?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

So apart from strengthening your pelvic floor muscles which is the commonly accepted exercise given to women with a weak bladder; I’m guessing you might also want to learn about the structures above the pelvic floor, the psoas muscles, that produce huge downward pressure onto the Pelvic floor exacerbating the problem that is never talked about.

The Psoas Muscles Create a Huge Downward Pressure On Our Bladder

So the huge downward force is why many women leak when they workout.  Most workouts create intra-abdominal pressure just from lifting and jumping and it is this pressure that also creates a downward pressure over the bladder.

How We Can Help With Incontinence

In my clinic I treat the Psoas muscles a lot for Back and Pelvic pain.

In treating these muscles for Back pain, many of my clients tell me that it has greatly helped with their incontinence and I was not even aware that they had incontinence.

They tell me that they have stopped going to the gym or running, even stopped going out with friends for a walk because of the Fear of leaking.  They tell me they have to wear pads when they go out for the day just in case they cough or sneeze causing leaking.

So if your one of the many women who leak when working out or experiencing this problem or you know someone who does, just pass this onto them so they can get the this information on the other contributing cause.

And lets face it, many women feel stigmatized even talking about this problem, so may hide it.

Even just lifting their own children or avoiding certain normal activities, like lifting the groceries into the car.

Let me show you about the other structures that contributes to this problem, that has helped many of my clients.

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How is Back Pain Connected to Incontinence?

The Psoas muscles are the common factor in both back pain and incontinence

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

The Psoas major muscles impact both the bladder and the low lumbar spine and when treated correctly enables us at Posturepro to get both better?

The Psoas muscles sit over our bladder and directly onto our low spine and when tight they compresses over both of these areas.  This compression has a damaging effect over our spine and discs and creates a downward pressure over our bladder and this is how back pain is connected to incontinence.

Treating The Psoas Muscles Can Resolve Back Pain and Incontinence

Why is it that my female clients reveal to me that after treating them for back pain that their incontinence (that I did not even know they had), starts to get better despite them having done pelvic floor exercises for many years with no real benefit.  Because when the Psoas muscle is treated properly and it begins to become more fluid, then the pressure on the bladder and our low spine disappears.

Why Is The Psoas Muscle So Tight and Unresponsive

From constant sitting positions from way back when we were children our Psoas muscles have started to compress and become hard.  They never get a chance to become fluid because of our constant sitting.  So from way back into our adult life when we are sitting at desks or travelling in cars these muscles stay tight and it continues to be compromised into our adult life?

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

3D video

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Posture First before Pain Will Go!

Treating only pain in the body and ignoring posture and movement

is counterproductive to getting long term results.  First we have to give our brain what it wants, and our brain wants to have a body that is working at its optimal capacity. Good posture and alignment first.

One of the things our brain picks up is when our body  is not moving well:

Our body will not move well with bad posture. So our brain see’s bad posture as a threat and in response it will send pain into our body to motivate us to get out and get it fixed. But unless we get what is causing your pain fixed then the posture does not change and your pain will return later down the track.

All our brain wants to do is ‘Evolve’

and it needs its host (our body) to be working well with good Posture to enable it to do this. The way our body works best is when it has good posture.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

Posture refers to the alignment of our spine and other joints of our body

When our brain is picking up that we are restricted in our movement and that we are out of alignment and our body is not working like a well oiled machine then our brain feels threatened.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Our brain sends pain into our body to motivate us to get it fixed!

So the first thing to change is our movement and posture.

When the brain can feel the body moving well and in balance then it does not need to send pain into our body.

Better movement is vital as we move into old age.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

3D video

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Sitting, Posture and the Psoas Muscle

From the moment we are born we are constantly sitting. As a young child we learn to sit before we learn to stand.

When we go to school we spend most of our time sitting in the classroom or studying at a desk with a computer or notebook.

As we get older, we go off to work which means more sitting at a desk with a computer, attending meetings and sitting to have our lunch.

Sitting and bending also occurs when we travel, whether in a car, plane or bus and also while we are out in the park enjoying our leisure time socialising with friends. So over time our posture will change and our spine starts to compress.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

3D video

We may start to experience stiffness and then pain in to our back, hip, groin, or higher up the spine into our neck or shoulders.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

The Psoas muscles (our postural muscles) are our foundational muscles that during sitting compress over our spine and start to damage our spine disc and nerves leading to pain. Traditional methods will treat where pain is felt, the symptom.

The Soaz method does not work on the body in this way, rather by changing the posture and alignment in the body, pain will resolve naturally.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

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It’s not my Back that hurts: it’s my Leg!

A Middle aged woman came to see me recently, she was having excruciating pain into her leg that was constant over the last 4 weeks.

On her first visit she was anxious and worried because she had just started a new job and was feeling the pain constantly.

I asked her if she also had low back pain and her response was “well yes,

but I don’t feel that only the leg pain”. She had been having low back pain for 30 years and saw physiotherapy and had massage when she needed to.

She did not see the connection with the leg pain and the back pain: this is quite common.

I explained to her that the leg pain is the same as the back pain, only it is now getting worse because the cause of the back pain has never been treated at the source of the problem

I Could Feel She Was Getting A Little Annoyed With Me

I thought she was going to walk out. Luckily she stayed and I educated her on where Back Pain starts and how she has now got Leg pain. When she understood she said “Oh that makes sense” I said yes and it is where all back pain starts from and when the back is just treated the problem never really ever resolves properly and that is why now the pain is getting worse and she is feeling it into her leg.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

At Posturepro physiotherapy We specialize in the Cause of Back Pain

I then checked her movements and her alignment: she had 80% of all body movements restricted.

I explained that until her body moves well she will continue to have pain. She started to cry!

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After a few treatments, she now has full body movement great alignment of her posture and is now on the road to being able to resolve her pain long term.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

3D video

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The Psoas muscles are the most overlooked muscles in our body for Back, Groin and Pelvic pain

As therapists we are trained to go to the area of pain to treat: this is a symptom of something else deeper in the body creating this pain.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

When my clients come in to see me they are usually only concerned about the area in their body that has been giving them a problem ongoing for a long time. They want me to treat their body in the way they have had it treated in the past (where their pain is).

When I explain to them that that is only going to result in the same outcome and that their pain area is indicating a deeper problem in their body that is causing their pain, and then show them why they have that pain, they see the logic in this and are incredulous that no one else has ever treated them this way before.

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

3D video

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The reason pain exists is because our posture is not well aligned this then starts causing friction in our body leading eventually to pain. The muscles that change our posture are the Psoas Major muscles deep within our pelvic cavity and unable to be accessed from the back of the body.

So to be free of pain, we have to treat what is causing these postural changes: the Psoas muscles. Only by doing that first will the body become correctly aligned and stop the friction leading to better movement and a resolution of pain – ongoing.

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Only Getting Short Term Relief From Back Pain

Why is my back pain only better for a short while?

The Lancet Medical Journal published the results of a three year global investigation into the current treatments for low back pain and published their findings in early 2018. Their conclusion was that the methods of treating back pain are flawed: they are not working.

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

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The Place Where You Feel Your Back Pain Is Not Where The Problem Is

Over the last fifteen years I have developed a new method, ‘the Soaz Method’, which has seen my clients back pain resolve long term. I have been treating back, hip, leg, groin, neck and headache pain with this method for many years, and my clients are the proof that this method not only resolves pain but also gets posture corrected and better movement for the body.

So, for those who are still having their back pain treated with the commonly accepted methods

Isn’t that like continuing to do the same thing again and again and expecting to get a different result?  Maybe it’s time to try another approach and resolve your short term relief from back pain.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Call us 82610177 to get a FREE assessment and find out how we can help you.

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Do you Still have Ongoing Back Pain?

The question to be answered is if you do still continue to get your back pain after multiple and various treatments from across a variety of methods and modalities and you are in fact getting worse with your back pain then, why are you still getting these treatments?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

When I was trained as a physiotherapist I was so eager to get out and get everybody better. I was so sure I could cure everyone and that they would be free of pain. Well that dream soon vanished when I started my first placement treating men from the Holden car plant at Elizabeth in Adelaide.

These Men From Holden Had Chronic Low Back Pain

We would treat them and then they would return with the same ongoing back pain not long after: sometimes within just a couple of weeks. I began to think I was a bad physio and I couldn’t see what else I could do. I was applying everything I had been taught to do and when I spoke to the other therapists they just said oh that’s the result we all get they never really get better.

This just did not sit well with me I wanted to get these men better

And many years and lots of courses and research is how I found the answer that I have evolved and use exclusively in my clinic Posturepro physiotherapy.

See the video link below

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Take this check list:

• Back pain keeps returning
• Hard to get up from sitting
• Buttock or Leg pain starting
• Tingling going down the leg
• Hard to bend forward or arch
• Can’t join in with your kids sports
• Feeling like you’re letting everyone down
• Even though you have it treated it still comes back
• Your movement has gradually become worse

These signs and symptoms are indicators that what is Causing your back pain has not been addressed.

The method that we use at Posturepro physiotherapy treats the Cause, and the Results speak for themselves.

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Why do I have Tight Hamstrings?

Hamstring tightness is caused from tight Psoas muscles.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

The biomechanics of this are that your Psoas mucles are attached to your Ischial tuberosities (your butt bones). As the Psoas muscles compress and compact over our spine from very early on (as we start to sit); they start to produce Huge forces that can tilt the pelvis.

The tilt is Forward, so we develop an anteriorly rotated pelvis. This is like a guide wire in a tent being pulled more on one side than the other. The result is that we have tight Hamstrings and our Abdominal muscles appear to be bigger on the other side.

This causes the Hamstrings to be overstretched which then results in too much constant Tension being put through the Hamstrings.  So there is less flexibility and movement in them.

Posturepro can get you amazing hamstring flexibility.

Click on video link below to see how the psoas muscles work & affect the spine

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Shoulder Pain Starts as Back Pain!

Why do I say this?

Because our Postural muscles change our structures in the body and when our posture is not good, all Joints in our body are compromised and start to deteriorate and wear and this results in Pain.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Also, click on the link below to see how the Psoas Muscles work

3D video

In my experience the low back is usually where most pain starts due to our postural muscles.

Because the body’s bad Posture results in the following changes to the body:

• tilted pelvis
• spine tilted on its foundation
• short leg
• restricted hip movement
• restricted trunk  rotation
• restricted neck rotation
• restricted shoulder movement
• feet pointed outward

All of these misalignments in the body result in damage to the joints and soft tissues (bursa tendons) around them.

The Bad Posture Starts The Wear and Damage To Our Shoulder Tendons and Bursa

Think of your body like a car with bad alignment that is wearing out the tyres and causing the stearing to pull to one side. All of this starts to damage the car.

So you take your car to a mechanic and all they do is change the tyres then the car will continue to wear and damage more areas.

So if you see a therapist who only wants to treat where you feel the pain (your shoulder) without even considering WHY you have shoulder problems, then you will very likely continue to get shoulder pain and continue to damage the shoulder more over time.

At Posturepro we know how to change your posture and prevent your shoulder pain from returning.

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At Posturepro we approach your body like a machine with all the interconnecting parts working in harmony with each other. We don’t charge you for treating different areas.

Resolve your pain all over your body by starting with the most important area: your foundations.

Then your Pain will resolve naturally.

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Why does your Back Ache more after Sitting?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Sitting posture starts from when we are babies and continues throughout our adult life. Most of our waking hours are spent sitting.

When we sit our powerful Psoas muscles compress over our spine and start a process of distortion and damage onto the lower spine particularly. These forces are constantly affecting our spine and eventually they start a process of tilting our pelvis and damaging the discs and nerves in that area. This leads to Back pain, because our back is the spine.

Watch our video to see how our Psoas Muscles work. SEE link below

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So to reverse these compression forces is crucial to resolving back pain.

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The nerves that exit our spine also go through the Psoas muscles and become our peripheral nerves that service our lower leg back and pelvis.

Treating where pain is felt is like changing the tyre on a car with bad alignment.

The Soaz method has been proven to be able to reverse these compression forces and resolve pain

Call us 82610177 or book online to get a Free posture check and have your gait checked now.

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The Pelvic Floor, the Psoas and the Back Connection

Most people have tight overworked Psoas muscles. This comes about from our constant sitting positions which compresses the Psoas muscles and creates huge forces onto the low spine and discs.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

These forces are responsible for ruptured discs: usually the L4/5 levels resulting in Back pain.

Click on the link below to see how the Psoas Muscles are connected

3D video

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The Psoas muscles are strategically placed into the pelvis also; and their ability to put huge pressure onto the bladder and the bowel has been documented in various medical journals. So the Psoas can affect the Pelvic floor and the back.

I also think these huge muscles could be responsible and contributing to weak pelvic floor muscles. The ‘sling muscles’ as they are known, are the group that are targeted in people with incontinence to strengthen them. Why? Because the bladder sits just below these muscles producing huge compression forces over the bladder.

So the current reasoning is that if we strengthen these sling muscles then that will help with stress incontinence.

I would like to propose a different rationale that looks at this in a different way. I have enabled many women with stress incontinence to achieve good resolution to their incontinence through treating only the Psoas muscles.

So the pelvic floor, the psoas and the back can be considered to be interconnected.

This is what I think is contributing to incontinence. The Psoas muscles are huge forces pushing downwards into the Pelvic cavity. If we can stop or at least reverse this push onto the bladder from above then start to soften and make the Psoas muscles more fluid: then the pressure from above can be greatly reduced onto the bladder. So like the boy who puts his finger into the dyke to stop the water from the dam: we can take the pressure off from above.

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Why does Back pain return after it’s been treated?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Check out the video below that shows how the Psoas Muscles work

3D video

We get a warning or an indicator of impending onset of back pain but because we don’t see the connection, we ignore it until it’s too late. This is a bit like the warning light in the car coming on and you just keep changing the globe. By just having your pain area treated that is the same principle as just changing the globe in the warning light.

Back Pain will Keep Returning If The Cause Is Not Treated

By the time we get back pain we are usually in so much pain and discomfort affecting our ability to work, walk, sit and do anything much at all that our overriding concern is to get relief FAST and stop the pain so we can get back to a normal life. When we get treated it is on the back where we Feel the pain. This seems sensible. However Pain can be elusive and so a thorough look at the whole body is what is required to track back where the pain actually starts from.

How is Back Pain Treated

The normal sequence is to maybe see a GP and get started on some pain killers or anti-inflamatories,  perhaps see a musculoskeletal therapist to treat the back where the pain is, maybe start an exercise regime and of course stop the aggravating activity.  Most times that means don’t sit!

After a few weeks (if you are lucky) the pain starts to reduce and you feel a lot better; so you believe that this has worked and now you can go back to a normal life again.  But why does back pain return after it’s been treated?

Don’t Accept Repeat Episodes Of Back Pain

Most people have a repeat or on going low back pain.  The same pain, usually the same side returns when you least expect it.  So you return for the same treatment again because that got it better before – right? Or did it just get the symptom (the pain) better and the original cause of the pain is still untreated.

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Let’s Stop Over-Diagnosing Back Pain

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

I applaud our professional body, the Australian Physiotherapy Association, for publishing the facts on low back pain in the latest journal and bringing it front and centre of mind for all therapists. It unequivocally states that the evidence is that the statistics on people who suffer low back pain shows that they will continue to get repeat episodes after they have treatment.

Repeat Episodes Of Back Pain Tend To Re-appear Quite Quickly

These episodes come on quite quickly and depending on how many previous episodes have been experienced, the time between each subsequent episode is within a few months. This is in spite of having had treatment and other interventions for the back pain.

Why Does Back Pain Continue To Recur?

When I first Graduated and started my first position treating men from the Holden Car Plant at Elizabeth in Adelaide I thought I was going to get them all better and they would not need any more treatment.

To my dismay this did not happen. These men kept on returning with the same back problem quite soon after they had been treated.

I thought I was doing something wrong, that I couldn’t get them better!

It was at this time I started to look outside of physiotherapy and began to do more courses and read up on what else was out there to help these men.

In 2005 I found the research that led me to change everything that I had been taught. I now use this exclusively in my clinic.

I think as therapists it is time we meet the challenge of being able to get a better outcome for these people who have put their faith and trust in us to deliver them the best outcomes and stop over-diagnosing back pain.

In my experience, with the method I use which does get ongoing results, I have people returning to me because they want to Stay good.

They say that they are moving better and that they are able to do things they have not dared to do previously with other treatments.

So if what the majority of therapists inside and outside of physiotherapy (across all musculoskeletal disciplines) is not working, why do we continue to treat back pain as we have for the last fifty to sixty years and how we are still training undergraduates to treat today in the university?

I think its time for some long awaited honest discussion within our profession in an endeavor to stop over diagnosing symptoms and start looking at the body in an holistic way and stop compartmentalising the body into pain areas, then we can resolve ongoing pain for good.

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3D video

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Psoas Muscle and Erectile Dysfunction

In a research paper published in Andrologia, by the department of Urology Graduate School of Medical Services & Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan – several hormonal and physical activities determine and have input into men’s sexual function.

From the research cited here, there is evidence to show the ratio of the Psoas muscle may contribute to sexual activity and erectile function.

These results also suggest that the pelvic floor muscles coordinate work with muscles surrounding the abdominal cavity.

This 3-year study [below] into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness.

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

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A healthy Psoas muscle contribute to improving pelvic floor muscle function, thereby leading to better sexual function.

Conclusion: Thick psoas muscle is a predictive marker of sexual activity and erectile dysfunction.

Thus, the psoas muscle volume could provide supportive information about sexual function.

At Posturepro we treat the Psoas muscles as a PRIORITY for many problems of the body.

Click on the link below to see how the Psoas Muscle affects our body

3D video

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Conflict of Interest: The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Posture Changes Through our Psoas Muscles

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Optimal fitness of the musculoskeletal system is vital to perform our daily activities and for reaching peak performance in our chosen sport and working environment. Without this balance, the body’s muscles start to compensate and pull the joints into less than optimal positions which leads to dysfunction, pain and deterioration.

The Psoas Muscles Start to Change Our Posture Leading to Back Pain

These dysfunctions (incorrect postural positioning) will lead to the breakdown of the joints, ligaments, discs and muscles causing pain, decreased movement and lead to increased restrictions within the body. Our Psoas muscles are about 17 inches long and Very Powerful and in sitting positions they are fully Crumpled and its this process that leads to damage in our spine.

Click on link below to see our VIDEO on how the Psoas muscles affect our posture

3D video

When you attend our clinic you will be thoroughly assessed before treatment begins. This thorough process is where we will not compromise. We use the analogy of a house where continually patching up the cracks without looking at the foundations is in the long term more costly and dangerous.

One of our guiding principles at Posturepro is to target the source of structural change in our body. When this is identified and treated appropriately, then other compromised areas of the body automatically resolve at the same time. This is what we call our foundational approach. This is not a symptomatic approach.

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Help your kids get the best approach to back or posture issues

At my clinic we focus on Posture and alignment as our top priority. 

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Today we see primary school and high school children preferring to sit even outside of school

because the younger generation are so heavily connected to their mobile devices, even when they are at home they are very likely sitting playing games or on their computers and also, more information is received via the digital platforms than ever before.

We can’t stop progress, but there is a preventive solution that we have been practicing here at Posturepro physiotherapy for many years.

The Soaz Method targets the muscles that cause compression and damage to the back.

Because, if your posture is not good then your spinal alignment is also not good.

So just treating a back or a neck or a shoulder that is having pain is like patching up cracks in the wall of a house that has bad foundations.

We get into the foundations of the body and work with the Psoas muscles that are responsible for the huge crumpling and distorting forces from our constant sitting.

As a Primary school teacher, before I became a physiotherapist, I witnessed the most terrible chairs that the kids had to sit in.

These were all standard issue so there was no way they had a choice. Even today it is possibly still the same.

From way back, we are producing a generation of children with potential for bad posture leading to back and spinal problems.

So unless you can find a way to stop them sitting or to encourage them to sit properly, then the best way is to help them understand the mechanism behind how the body gets bad alignment.

When the psoas muscles that are huge and sit at the base of our spine start to compress, they start a cascade of events happening throughout our spine and all of the joints that attach to our spine. Like our hips and shoulders. These are the muscles that start the process and yet they are not even being treated.

At Posturepro physiotherapy I will educate you and your child on how their daily activities are contributing to bad posture and then show them how they can start to reverse the process.

Check out our video that shows how the Psoas muscle damages our low back and changes our Posture.

Click here – 3D video

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Back Pain Increase in Young People: Why?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

What’s The Biggest Contributing Factor To Back Pain For Younger People?

I am seeing more and more younger people coming into our clinic with low back pain. They can be high school students or people who have just started work. This is very disturbing for a physiotherapist because if these young people are already having problems then the prognosis for going forward is not good.

Sitting Contributes To Low Back Pain

One of the biggest contributing factors in low back pain is Sitting.

As a primary school teacher before becoming a physiotherapist, I witnessed first hand the most awful chairs that the kids were required to sit in. These were standard issue so there was no choice but to sit in them. When you consider that there is going to be between eight to twelve years of education that requires mostly sitting then this is not going to be helpful.

Today we see primary school and high school children preferring to sit even outside of school

Because the younger generation are so heavily connected to their mobile devices even when they are at home, they are very likely sitting playing games or on their computers and also, more information is received via the digital platforms than ever before.

We can’t stop progress, but there is a preventive solution that we have been practicing here at Posturepro physiotherapy for many years.

The Soaz Method targets the muscles that cause compression and damage to the back.

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

We treat almost exclusively the major muscles that are crumpling and compressing our spine when we do sit. So if we can offset the impact from so much sitting there is a much better chance of avoiding back pain as they grow.

Help your kids get the best approach to back or posture issues.

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Why Can’t I get my Back Pain better?

As a physiotherapist of 25 plus years experience: I almost left the profession

when I first started. I thought I was a failure and I was so upset because I wondered why my patients were returning with the same Back pain after I treated them.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

I thought I must have missed something in physio class.

I use to lay awake at night and wonder what I could do, to do better. Don’t get me wrong my patients were getting better and they were very grateful for my treatment. However, I was not feeling satisfied.

It was at that time that I started to look outside of physiotherapy to other methods of trying to achieve the best results for my patients.

I studied Acupuncture, Bowen therapy, Reiki, Myofascial techniques, Aromatherapy and started to apply some of these into my traditional physiotherapy treatments. People loved these adjuncts to their treatment and I was getting busier.

It was not until many years and lots of treatments later that I realised that returning back pain was what was happening with all other therapists.

Then I ‘got it’  this is how it works. We as therapists rely on our clients returning with the same Back, hip, sciatic pain, neck pain because its how we keep our businesses going. I also noted that no other therapist seemed to be concerned at this: only me.

See the following video to see what i have found

copy 3D video

So it was in my formative years in physiotherapy that I embraced looking at the body in a different way and still do. At Posturepro I have been using a method to treat Back pain and many other pain in the body with only starting with movement and posture first. This method has proven to resolve back pain and allow my clients to achieve movement and postural changes that had alluded them with other treatment approaches. This is the method I embrace at my clinic for all of my clients.

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Why is One Leg Shorter than the Other?

The Psoas muscles impact our pelvis and when our pelvis is tilted our hip is also shifted in an upward direction. This is the biomechanics of the Pelvis. When the hip is elevated our leg shortens.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

So having the Pelvic area well balanced with respect to the Sacroiliac joints, which are the large joints of the pelvis, is vital.

Walking around on a short leg is compromising the pelvis, the back, the hips and the Bursa of the hip.

This is like driving a car with bad alignment. Yes you can change the tyres but the alignment remains distorted.

So you can treat the symptom; the Bursa, the Back and the Hip, but without treating the cause, it will return!

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What if the Way we Treat Back Pain is Flawed?

Why does back pain keep returning more so than other areas of the body?

And even becomes worse on each subsequent episode.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

The pain that started in one side of your back is now showing up on the other side, and the pain is now moving downward causing buttock pain.

Now it’s into the top of the leg and maybe there is also groin pain.

The original back pain area seems to be spreading and the pain is more intense and you might even have pins and needles or numbness into your leg or foot.

The leg may feel weak and walking feels like you have to drag your leg forward.

All of these seemingly separate local pain areas might seem like you are falling apart or getting old and make you wonder what is going on.

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You visit your GP and they tell you its arthritis or its your age. They might suggest taking some anti-inflamatories or even having a scan.  So now you are really worried.

If you would like a logical explanation that put’s the alarmist theories to bed:

then call us 82610177 for a free assessment and find out what is really going on.

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“I can’t put my socks on because my back hurts when I bend”

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

The elderly are my favourite age group in my patient list.

I love them because they come in with such low expectations of what they are expecting to be able to achieve.

Their ADL’s (activities of daily living) are usually the most important thing

for them because this dictates their quality of life. After all, if someone is having a problem being able to bend down to put on their socks because it is making their back pain worse or because they are so restricted, then I have to wonder also what else they are having a problem doing.

What about when they go shopping, does their restrictions and back pain affect them in being able to do this

or what about out in their garden?

This group also is the one where sometimes one of them is also partly or even entirely being a carer for the other one. So the demand on them at this age is significant. It is also the deciding factor in their ability to be able to stay on in their own home and be independent and be able to cope for as long as they are able to.

So when I ask them what it is that they want to get from coming to us here at Posturepro they usually only have very limited expectations.

So the first thing we do here is check all of their movements and get a base line of where they are right now.

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After they have been treated we redo their full body movements.  80-90% will get good to great movement changes in their body and with back pain beginning to resolve.

Some even say they feel like they are moving like they were in their 20’s

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How do I restore my clients from Limited movement and Pain back to normal life?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Click here – LANCET ARTICLE

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Click here – ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

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How do I restore my clients from Limited movement and Pain back to normal life?

I use the New Movement for Back pain model to get people moving fast and pain free quickly.

There are three points of difference with how I treat pain and how other therapists treat pain to restore my clients to normal life

•  I Look at the Body as a whole I do not compartmentalize the body
•  I look inside the body to the structure that causes back pain
•  I do not treat the back pain

My approach to all pain in the body is to first look at the alignment and posture and work on correcting this first.

When the  body is well aligned and has good movement then pain should resolve.

Think of it like a car with bad alignment; the tyres keep wearing out and if you only keep having the tyres changed then you must expect that the original pain will return.

I used to treat that way, but never felt satisfied

so I began my journey of discovery and research into the body and found a new way to approach it. I have been treating this way for the last 12 years and my clients stay good as long as they continue to look after the structure that is important.

If you are still suffering with back, hip or leg pain that still keeps returning; I can show you how the method I use resolves back pain.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

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Back Pain Keeps Coming Back

The Lancet Medical Journal published the results of a three year global investigation into the current treatments for low back pain and published their findings in early 2018. Their conclusion was that the methods of treating are flawed: they are not working.

Click here to see Article

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

ANATOMY & BIOMECHANICS OF PSOAS MAJOR

Wow, so why are we still teaching these same methods in the University courses?

If you have been reading my posts you would have seen in my last one that I questioned the current methods many years ago and it lead me on a quest to find a better way. I found it!

The Place Where You Feel Your Back Pain Is Not Where The Problem Is

Over the last fifteen years I have developed a new method the Soaz method which has seen my clients back pain resolve long term. I have been treating back, hip, leg, groin, neck and headache pain with this method for many years, and my clients are the proof that this method not only resolves pain but also gets posture corrected and better movement for the body.

So, for those who are still having their back pain treated with the commonly accepted methods

Isn’t that like continuing to do the same thing again and again and expecting to get a different result?  Maybe it’s time to try an different approach.

At my clinic I will educate you on how I get back pain better ongoing.

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Myths About Your Current Back Pain Treatment

that is keeping your Back pain returning.

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

Lancet Article

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Research Paper – Anatomy and Biomechanics of Psoas Major

One of the first things someone with back pain will do is visit their Doctor.  Your Doctor may advise that you go to bed and rest.  The extensive research on low back pain tells us that going to bed and resting is not going to help, but make your back worse.  You must keep moving, but moving sensibly and especially in the early stages so as not to upset your back more.  Your Doctor more than likely will also send you off for an X-ray or a Scan or an MRI.

This research also tells us that there will be some degeneration to your low spine.  This is normal in the aging process and because of our sitting constantly.  But just because you have degeneration, that is not what has caused your pain.

So just having these scans will not get your Back pain better and may even lead you to believe that there is no hope of you getting better!

This is NOT the case!  Most of my clients have had scans that show degeneration in the spine from moderate to advanced.  However, I can still get their back pain resolved with the method I use here at Posturepro.

Another myth is that you can get back pain better by treating your back pain.

What a lot of musculoskeletal therapists are doing to treat back pain where the pain is felt, is not working and we need to find a better way of treating it.

The method I have developed at my clinic over the last 15 years has been achieving amazing results for back pain and movement.

Physiotherapists are trained in how to do this and they can advise you on how to move without upsetting your back further.

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

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Take the FREE assessment offer and come in and speak to me, so I can show you what we do here and how it works.

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Back Pain is a Global Dilemma

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Why the push for stand up desks in the fight against Back pain?

Well it isn’t to give your Bum a rest!  NO, its to Open up your hip and groin area and stop your postural muscles from compressing the spine discs and nerves.

WHY?  Because when we sit our Huge Postural muscles Compress and shear our lumbar spine and the compression forces are so huge that they damage the discs and distort the spine and that is the beginning of Back pain.

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From way back when we are little babies and we start to sit our postural muscles are already starting to compress over our spine.  The constant sitting position that most of us are in most of the time is compounded by our way of life.

Computers and working at desks and sitting when we get home to watch our chosen media and then sitting when we entertain sitting in our cars and sitting when we watch sport.

These constant sitting positions are the beginning of Back pain, Disc damage, Sciatica and Postural problems

So you say ok but there are now stand up desks.  Yes there are and they are a good initiative but personally I think they are not the answer long term. It is amazing that even when people have a stand up desk they find they prefer to still sit.

At Posturepro we treat the compression forces and allow spinal decompression to occur.

So continuing to get your Back treated will not resolve your Back pain for long.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

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How I Treat Back Pain

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Often I get asked about my background in Physiotherapy with new patients, so I thought I would drop some basic details below outlining who I am.

As the owner of Posturepro Physiotherapy and being in the industry for many years now, my experience and knowledge has you in very safe hands.

I studied BaEd majoring in Health and was a teacher for a few years, then went on to do Physiotherapy  at S.A. University.  I soon went to the USA and worked out of the prestigious North East Regional Medical University for Osteopathy for 2 years.

When I first started physiotherapy after graduating from university I was working in a Clinic treating men from  the Holden car manufacturing plant at Elizabeth in Adelaide.  Most of these men had chronic low back pain. As physio’s we would treat them but  to my dismay these men kept returning with the same back pain on a regular basis.

I started to question myself as a physio?  I began to think I wasn’t a good physio

I thought I was a bad physio, but then I realised that all of my other colleagues and other physios in the industry were also getting the same results and when I questioned them about it they didn’t even see this as a problem they just said ” that’s just the way it works.”

This started me on a journey to find a better way to treat back pain.

The journey has led me here today to the method I now use exclusively in my clinic: The Soaz Method.  It’s this method that has delivered my clients new hope that has seen their back pain improve but also has increased their movement and  flexibility.

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

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Still Got Your Back Pain?

In a global investigation on the treatment of back pain over a 3 year period and published in the medical journal The Lancet in 2018, the best minds in the world came to the conclusion that what we as a group of musculoskeletal Therapists are doing is not working. (see article below)

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This same investigation made it clear that as a group of musculoskeletal therapists including Physiotherapists, Chiropractors, Osteopaths, and others need to be reassessing the way that we treat and indeed looking hard at the results obtained.

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major 

In the first paper of this investigation low back pain is identified as the number one cause of disability worldwide

And it clearly highlights that the global burden of LBP is projected to increase even further in coming decades.

Already the number of years lived with disability caused by LBP has increased by 54% between 1990 and 2015.

One such lady came to me recently having had a 20 year history of back pain and was taking 12 – 15 panadol a week just to be able to do her shopping.

I take different approach to back pain treatment. My method is to assess the whole body and treat the underlying cause of back pain.

In my clinic I have a treatment method called the ‘Soaz Method’.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

https://posturepro.com.au/what-really-causes-back-pain-free-ebook/

Also, Download our FREE App “The Psoas 3D Interactive Model” to see how it works

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So if your back pain is still not getting better

Book a Free time to come in and talk to me 

 ~ Julie Williams

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Have You Got a Blown Out Disc?

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

Our Psoas muscles are so Powerful and with our constant sitting these muscles are under constant compression forces that over time can blow out the disc in our low spine. The last two levels of our spine L4/5 are always where disc damage occurs.

One of the myths about back pain is that you will need surgery.

The Disc herniates because of the huge compression forces from our Postural muscles that surrounds the Disc compressing and rupturing the disc material as stated in the research on the Psoas muscles.

Do you continue to suffer with low back pain?

The Soaz method is my own method that I have developed over the years in my clinic based on the research in the paper above.

The Soaz method treats the Psoas muscles.  It starts to reverse the compression and shearing forces over the low spine created by poor sitting habits and bad postural alignment, causing damage to the discs.

If you have been diagnosed with a herniated or compressed disc and this is creating pain in
your back – then see how our Soaz method can reverse this and start the healing of your back.

Our method is gentle, thorough, and effective.

Call us now for a postural assessment on 8261 0177 or book online here

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This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Posture is the indicator in your body of how well your body is working.  It is like the alignment of a car, when the alignment is out the wheels start to wear out and that starts putting strain onto other areas of the car.

When our Body’s alignment is out it results in our body not being able to work in its optimal condition.  So just like a car that is out of alignment, our body starts to wear unevenly. Our leg length shortens, our shoulders drop on one side, our Pelvis is higher on one side than the other, and our hip is higher on that same side.

What Structure Causes Our Body To Become Unbalanced

Our Psoas Major muscles are our postural muscles and they alone have the ability to distort our pelvis, starting a cascade of events happening through our Spine and lower body. These imbalances now start to effect how our body works, less efficiently and with friction onto various joints in the body.  Then starting the process of pain in our body.

How Does The Psoas Muscle Change Our Posture

The result of having tight compressed and unhappy Psoas muscles are that we start to create wear onto our joints in our body through bad alignment in the joints. This starts friction on these joints and when we reach up or bend down, these joints cannot function like they should.  This eventually leads to damage and pain.

That is why here at Posturepro Physiotherapy we do a full body assessment to determine what areas have been affected and are out of alignment.

Fixing these early will allow the body to work in harmony and prevent problems going forward.

Call us P) 8261 0177 or  book a Free Posture Assessment here

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This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

I’m often asked “Why aren’t I treating Back Pain Where the pain is Felt?”

I answer by asking the question – Well if your car keeps wearing out the tyres, why do you just keep changing them instead of fixing the alignment?

So why I don’t treat back pain is for the same reason as someone not continually changing the tyres, that is the symptom and there is a bigger problem in the alignment of the car.

Traditional therapies treat only the symptoms of back pain where the pain is felt.

They do this by focusing on the area where the pain exists, in this case, the back.  Often the pain returns and with each subsequent episode it is usually worse than the time before, with the symptoms spreading or increasing in intensity.

Treating the cause of the pain, rather than the symptoms, is the way to resolve back pain ongoing.

So why aren’t I treating back pain where it is felt?  Because that will not usually resolve it long term.

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At Posturepro we have an approach that gives you a new vision of the body – the SOAZ Method

Posturepro is the Home of the Soaz Method

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Headache Pain Starts in the Pelvis!

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

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This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

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Headaches predominantly are caused from bad postural alignment of the spine.

The spine forces the neck and head into a forward position,

moving the centre of gravity forward – the Psoas muscles that sit in our low spine and pelvic area are responsible for changing our spinal alignment and this change, then changes the upper spine. This is why I say that headache pain starts in the pelvis.

The Upper Spine Is Bent Forward Bringing Our Head With It

The result is that this forward head position creates a need for the muscles in the back of our neck to have to work very hard to hold our head up.

This constant repetitive need on these muscles

means they are working overtime to try and correct the forward pull from gravity.

Therefore, headaches are a secondary cause brought about by our postural muscles (the Psoas muscles) being tight and forcing us to have an inward curve in our low spine – resulting in an outward curve further up the spine.

Repetitive Headaches Are An Indication That Your Posture Is Not Good

Here at Posturepro we specialize in Reversing Poor Postural Alignment

poor posture is not corrected by pulling your shoulders back or wearing a posture brace

Posture can only be corrected by treating and reversing the structure that causes bad posture. That is what we do here at our clinic.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

So to resolve headache and neck pain, come and see us and have your posture changed first to achieve the best results.

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The Soaz Method has treated many headaches and neck problems by sorting out the posture first.

Also see our post on Headaches

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This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine, resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

One of my clients said to me recently, after treating her it felt like getting your hair washed at the hairdressers.  She said it was so gentle, relaxing and felt wonderful.  I laughed, then I started thinking about what she had said.

You see, when I first started working with the Psoas muscles, I was trained to stick elbows into them to get into these very tight muscles. The people that we treated would come back bruised and did not want it done again. So I started to look into how the Psoas could be treated without having to dig into it and cause bruising for people.

I realised that what she was referring to by gentle, was such a surprise to what she may have experienced before  compared to the gentle approach of the Soaz method.

I also used to treat people the same way, but comparing that to the Soaz method I have developed, it’s gentle and yet effective.

I don’t need to pummel, prod and pound on someones body to get the results my clients get and when I get feedback like that it makes it all worthwhile.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

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Back Pain Why We Need a New Direction:

The Medical Journal The Lancet States That We Need a New Direction In Treating Back Pain

“Low back pain is a major global problem that is getting worse as the population increases and ages.  The Lancet published a series of three papers on the global impact of low back pain that, respectively, present the challenges and causes of low back pain, the evidence for the effectiveness of current treatments, and a call for action for change” read article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

What is the standard treatment for Back pain?  It is to treat where pain is felt.  Where the pain is felt is not where the problem is, this is just a symptom.  So treating the pain will only deliver short term inferior results that will return again and again.

I almost Left The Physio Profession

One of the first placements when I graduated, was working at the Holden car manufacturing plant in Adelaide.  The men that we treated usually had chronic low back pain.  We would treat them and then not long after they would return with the same low back problem, sometimes in two or three weeks.  This did not sit well with me.  I expected when I became a physiotherapist, that people would get better not keep returning with the same problem on a regular basis.

It was from my placement working on these men that I started to look around for a better way to treat them.  I started to do more courses outside of physiotherapy and started to look into what research was out there.

In 2005 I found the Research That Changed Everything

From the time I started to find a better way to treat back pain, I have been on a journey that has led me to where I am today.  This journey has resulted in my own method, The Soaz Method that is seeing great results for back and many more areas of the body.

Posturepro is the Home of the Soaz Method

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Why is Back pain so Relentless

and upsetting and perplexing for people who have it?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

As a physiotherapist of 30 years, when I started working one of my first jobs was to work with people suffering from Back pain. Most of these people worked at the Holden factory at Elizabeth in South Australia. After working for about 3 months I began to see a pattern with these people. It took me a further 15 years to find the answer to this dilemma of back pain and then the next 10 years to develop an approach to back pain based on the research i found on the Psoas muscle.

Holden Workers Were Having Their Symptom Treated

These men would come in with back pain and be treated in the traditional and accepted way for back pain. The treatment was always where their pain was (their Back). They would get relief after about 6-10 treatments and they would go back to work. Then after a few months they would return with the same back pain, except on each episode they would usually be worse.

The Pattern Of Back Pain Progression

These men not only had back pain now but the pain had started to go into their buttock or leg and sometimes it was so bad that it went all the way down their leg into the foot. The same treatments were still done as before. Some strengthening exercises for the Core muscles and some ergonomic advice about what they should and shouldn’t do.  When the pain continued and everything had been done for them including sending them to a Psychologist and putting them on ‘light duties’, they were considered to be rehabilitated.  Yet their back pain continued. So, why is back pain so difficult to treat?

These men were then either given a pay out or they just put up with the pain and continued to work with the back pain till they just couldn’t do their job any longer. Most of these (usually men) were headed for the scrap heap.

This Repeat Back Pain Did Not Sit Well With Me

I started to question what was going on and why I could not get these men a better outcome. I spoke to my other physiotherapy peers and asked them if I was doing something wrong. They just looked at me and said “Oh that’s just the way it works”.  I could not accept that as an answer and it was around that time that I started to do other courses in the hope of being able to get better results for back pain.

It was in 2005 that I found the research paper above that changed the trajectory of my treatments.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

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Laminectomy – Why it’s Not the Remedy!

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal ‘The Lancet’ reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Laminectomy for the low spine is deemed necessary when the deterioration in the spine is so bad that there is virtually no disc left and the nerves are compromised and so the Buffer (the disc) has gone!!

A Laminectomy is the spinal operation that attempts to “Shore up” that level of the spine by reinforcing it with steel girders either side of the disc.

The initial result is relief of constant pain for the patient  – but the reality is that in many, this is only temporary.

Why?  Because the un-natural invasion of these steel struts into the spine creates a Rigid area that produces an engineering resistance to the spinal levels above it and below it.

To put it simply, the natural movement that should be happening in those other areas STOPS!

The natural stimulation in those areas that nurtures and keeps the disc healthy also STOPS!

The result is the discs get dehydrated and start to dry up.

I have a patient I haven’t seen for years who has come back to me recently, who had a laminectomy done about nine months ago.  He was good for several months, but now his pain has returned into his back and he has numbness into both lower legs and feet, so now he is not able to do the original things he was doing.

The problem is that the scaffolding he has had put into his spine is now impacting the levels above and below it, and they are not able to work effectively as they should.

So what is the outcome and suggestion from his surgeon – to go back and do more surgery for the other levels.

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Restoring My Clients to Normal Life

“Low back pain is a major global problem that is getting worse as the population ages. In March 2018, The Lancet published a series of papers on the global impact of low back pain that presents the challenges and causes of low back pain, the evidence for effectiveness of treatments and a call for action and change in the way we treat it.     (You can read the full published article below)

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

When the prestigious medical journal The Lancet publishes the results of a 3 year investigation into Low Back Pain and they publish it with the warning and recommend that what we are doing to treat back pain is not working then its time to sit up and listen.

How do I restore my clients from Limited Movement and Back Pain to Normal Lives?

The Soaz Method. I have been a physiotherapist for over twenty years running my own private practice, but before that my first placement when I graduated, was treating men from the Holden car manufacturing plant at Elizabeth in Adelaide. These men had chronic low back pain.

As therapists we would treat them but then they would return not long after with the same back problem.

This did not sit well with me, and when I broached this with my other physio peers they did not even see this as a problem. They just said  “that’s the way it works!”

So it was at that time that I started to look outside of the physiotherapy modalities I had been trained in to see if there was a better way to help these men.

I did many courses including going overseas to do acupuncture.  I studied  Bowen therapy, Reikki, Aromatherapy and many other modalities.  It was also at this time that I started to look into what research was out there.

It was in 2005 that I found the research that led me on a path to change everything I had been trained to do.  It was this research that started me on a journey that has led me to where I am today and the Soaz method.

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There are three points of difference with how I treat pain, to restore my clients to normal life

•  I Look at the Body as a whole I do not compartmentalize the body
•  I look inside the body to the structure that causes back pain
•  I do not treat the back pain

My approach to all pain in the body is to first look at the alignment and posture and work on correcting this first.

When the body is well aligned and has good movement then pain should resolve.  Think of it like a car with bad alignment; the tyres keep wearing out and if you only keep having the tyres changed, then you must expect that the original pain will return.

So, If you are still suffering with back, hip or leg pain that keeps returning, I can show you how the method I use resolves pain.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Come in to see us for a FREE assessment and find out how I do this.

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Does Your Back Pain Keep Returning?

The Lancet Medical Journal States That The Way We Treat Back Pain Is Not Working

In the first paper published by the Lancet it states that low back pain is identified as the number one cause of disability worldwide and it clearly highlights that the global burden of back pain is projected to increase even further in coming decades. [Read Article below]

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Why Does my Back Pain Never get Better when I Have Tried So Many Different Things!

This would be the most asked question I get in my clinic from New Patients who come to me with persistent Low Back Pain. They tell me about all the various treatment approaches they have tried, some lasting longer than others but eventually their Back pain still returns.

Can The Soaz Method Be The New Back Pain Treatment That Will Turn This Trend?

One of the ways I used to answer this question before, was to assume it was something they had done to undo all my good work.  One typical question might be “what have you been doing to make it painful?”  Another question was about whether they have been doing their exercises.  This of course puts all of the blame back onto them. This approach makes them feel like a failure and this is not the frame of mind to help themselves or me as their therapist.

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Because I now know better, I explain to my clients How their Back gets Painful and What the answer is to avoid that ongoing.

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Back Pain is the No. 1 Cause of Disability Worldwide

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal ‘The Lancet’ reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness.  See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Back pain has been classified by leading researchers as the number one cause of disability worldwide, and it is expected to increase as the population ages.

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

In my 30 years as a physiotherapist I have treated literally thousands of people suffering from low back pain. In my early years I remember thinking why do these people keep coming back with the same back problem? I thought I was doing something wrong.

When I graduated from Physiotherapy my first placement was treating men from the Holden Car Plant in Adelaide

I expected to get them all better, but often they would be returning with the SAME back problem not long after treatment.  I began to question myself as a physiotherapist.  Was I doing something wrong, did I miss something in class?

Then as I continued, I realised that this is what all therapists are getting.  And when I questioned the other therapists about this they did not even see this as a problem.  They just said “that’s the way it works”.

I started to question the results we were getting and I was not satisfied to get these results

It was in 2005 that I found the research that changed everything.  It was this research that I did not even know existed and has led me to change everything I had been taught.  So through this journey I now know why back pain is the no. 1 cause of disability worldwide.

Now I know the Answer: Back pain where the pain is felt is NOT the place to TREAT Back pain.

The method I have evolved in my clinic over the last 15 years does not treat the ‘back pain’,  this is merely a symptom of something deeper in the body not working as it should.

The method I have developed and that I have great success with, starts with looking at the body as a whole.

I assess all body movement, posture and alignment first.  By doing this first the body will reveal what it needs to be treated or addressed, and it is NEVER on the back!

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Back Pain in Retirement: How it Impacts Your Life

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Back pain is like ‘The Joker’ lurking in the background just waiting for you to plan a holiday or an outing, and then it shows its ugly head. Unrepentant!  Lurking Sinister Malevolent and Unforgiving!  It doesn’t care what your plans are.  It has its own agenda.

So many plans are ruined by back pain. I see it all the time.

How Back Pain Can Appear Out Of the Blue

You have organised to meet up with some friends for lunch and you bend down to do something so common like put on your socks and there it is again.  The Joker is back!

The Symptoms of Back Pain Can Vary

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I have had people hobble into my clinic or walk in with someone helping them because they can’t even stand straight.

Treating Back Pain will not Resolve Back Pain

They have been getting their Back Pain treated in the area of their pain.  Then I educate them on the Psoas muscle and its impact on our low back creating back pain and explain that they need their Psoas muscle treated.

Then they look at me and wonder as if what I have just said is somehow not going to get their back pain better.  I then ask them with all the treatment on your back where the pain is has it helped?  The standard answer is usually ” yes, but only for a short time then it returns”

So don’t let back pain ruin your retirement, come see us at Posturepro.

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Core Muscles and Back Pain

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Why you need to look after and Love your Psoas muscles!

Your ‘core’ is a group of small muscles made up of the Multifidus and your Transversus Abdominus muscles. These muscles are usually weak and they do not pull their own weight.  So your huge Psoas muscle has to pick up the slack for these muscles and take on not only its own job, but the job of these as well.

The Psoas Muscles are required to do the work of your Core muscles

Your core is a group of muscles that alone cannot get you a better Back in spite of all the Pilates classes and Reformers, because it is not the core muscles that cause your low back pain. In fact these are only a minor part of the whole biomechanics of your spine and they are not alone going to get your back pain better.

The Psoas Muscles Create Huge Compression Forces Over Our Low Spine

The most strategically placed and most significant muscles that sit directly onto your low spine are your Psoas Muscles. It is our constant sitting positions that cause these muscles to become compressed and create huge forces to be placed over our low spine leading to blown out discs and nerve damage.

If you concentrate on strengthening only your core muscles then you are neglecting the most important and Huge group of muscles: The PSOAS

As a physiotherapist I have always prescribed core work and still do. What I no longer do is give core exercises until they have a responsive Psoas muscle.

The reason for this is that the Core muscles working alone over powers the Psoas and because the Psoas is already very tight and compressed then the result is like a concrete sandwich which will affect your back leading to pain.

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This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

When a 64yo male comes in with constant low back pain after having surgery for this 3 years ago and reports the Surgeon now wants to go in again and do more surgery at higher levels, I am in disbelief!

So I look into the eyes of this man and I see desperation and loss of faith in the process.

I am not sure if I can help him now and I have to tell him this.

I only wish he had found us before he had the Laminectomy surgery.

The Soaz Method has helped many people with back pain and movement, to live a better life and return to the things they love.

This method takes the compression force off the spine and helps the discs and cartilage to work again, to move again.  Nourishment of the disc is vital for a healthy spine.  So when steel struts are put onto this the movement stops and so does the nourishment of the spine.

Posturepro is the Home of the Soaz Method

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Is Exercise Bad for Back Pain?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Some exercise is bad for your back but it depends on what exercise you do, how you do them and when you do them and if you are trying to use exercise to fix your back pain when it is already in the acute stage.

There are some basic things to address before starting on any exercise regime to help your back pain.

Exercise is only one aspect of getting your Back pain resolved.

If you start going into a gym or fitness centre when you’re in acute pain, then yes you will upset your back further. So having a professional to assess and advise what should be done about the back in the early stage is critical.

As a physiotherapist who has treated thousands of people with back pain, there are some rules around exercise and back pain I would advise:

• Do not suddenly start running or going to the gym when your back is bad
• If you are sitting for long periods, place a cushion or rolled up towel behind the small of your back
• Get up from sitting as much as you can
• See a professional who can advise on ergonomics posture and what type of exercise you should be doing –  physiotherapists train in all of the above
• When you are in extreme pain see a professional who can guide you through and start you on the correct exercise regime and management plan

At Posturepro we have a new method of treating back pain called the Soaz Method.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Book a Free assessment here or call us 8261 0177

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Is Treating Back Pain The Answer?

The Lancet Journal States That We Need To Find A New Way To Treat Back Pain

The medical journal, the Lancet, did a three year investigation across all therapies and came to the conclusion that the way we are treating back pain needs to change.

The evidence that it is not working is the increasing number of people world wide suffering from ongoing low back pain and the increase in the cost of workcover payouts.  Read the article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

If you understand how the low back works and what forces are at play over our low spine and you are educated on the huge postural muscles that sit directly onto our spine and the huge forces that compress our back and discs and damage our nerves, then you will have the true picture of why we have low back pain and why just treating where we feel the pain is just the symptom.

The Psoas Muscles Damage Our Low Spine Leading to Low Back Pain

But we cannot treat these muscles from the back. So only treating where the pain is is a bit like asking why do we just keep changing the tyre on our car that continues to wear out instead of looking at the Alignment in the car.

The Method That We Use Here is To Treat The Psoas Muscle

The Psoas Muscles are the forces that damage the spine and discs from the evidence in the research paper above.

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The biomechanics of the Psoas muscles strategic placement along the lumbar spine makes it the prime contender to be the structure creating the compression forces over the lumbar spine, resulting in damage to the discs, ligaments and nerves in that area.

This is why the Soaz Method does not treat back pain where it is felt, but rather the structures that create the damage in the low spine – the Psoas muscles.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

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Headaches are a Pain in the Neck! 

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Bad Posture and Headaches

If you are experiencing Headaches or Neck Pain, then maybe you need to look at your whole posture: not just your neck posture. Because if your Pelvis is not level and you have a short leg and your trunk is in a forward head position, then just treating your neck will only give short term results for your headaches.

How Does Our Posture Change

Our Posture changes through and because of the compression of our postural muscles. Our postural muscles sit deep inside and attach to our low spine.

Why Is It Important To Have Good Cervical Spine Support In Bed

Our neck needs to have optimal support when we are in bed. So having a posture pillow is vital to give our neck the support it needs. Without this, our neck will be tilted to one side or the other creating bad alignment and jamming up the cervical vertebral bodies.  These are the structures that when jammed up will cause headaches.

There are two positions to avoid in Bed

The worst is laying on your stomach with your neck twisted to the side – this position winds up your neck joints putting pressure on the nerves in your neck.  This position can lead to neck issues, headaches and even pins and needles into your arms and fingers.

The other position is side lying with a pillow that is too low or does not support your neck at all, this is also going to lead to over-stretching the joints and ligaments of the neck.

The sleeping posture in your neck should be with the neck joints in neutral with good support in the side lying position.

With a good Posture pillow there is good support in the side lying position and back lying position.

The posture is well supported on the neck leading to better sleep and less chance of damage to the joints and nerves in the neck.

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Only Getting Temporary Relief For Your Back Pain?

The Lancet Medical Journal published the results of a three year global investigation into the current treatments for low back pain and published their findings in early 2018. Their conclusion was that the methods of treating back pain are flawed: they are not working.

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

The research paper below, shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

The Place Where You Feel Your Back Pain Is A Symptom.

Over the last fifteen years I have developed a new method ‘the Soaz Method’.  My clients back pain has improved and also their movement has improved and their functionality.

I have been treating back, hip, leg, groin, neck and headache pain with this method for many years.  My method is based on the research paper above and the Lancet Journal that has stated that the way we as a group of musculoskeletal therapists are treating back pain is needing to change.

So for those who are still having  back pain, I offer a Free initial visit where I will show you how I go about treating this problem

I look forward to meeting you and showing you how I will look at your body from a new perspective.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Call us 82610177 to get a FREE assessment and find out how we can help you.

Or you can Book online below

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Only Getting Short Term Relief From Back Pain

Why is my back pain only better for a short while?

The Lancet Medical Journal published the results of a three year global investigation into the current treatments for low back pain and published their findings in early 2018. Their conclusion was that the methods of treating back pain are flawed: they are not working.

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Check out the Video Link below, it shows how the Psoas Muscles affect our spine and posture.

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The Place Where You Feel Your Back Pain Is Not Where The Problem Is

Over the last fifteen years I have developed a new method, ‘the Soaz Method’, which has seen my clients back pain resolve long term. I have been treating back, hip, leg, groin, neck and headache pain with this method for many years, and my clients are the proof that this method not only resolves pain but also gets posture corrected and better movement for the body.

So, for those who are still having their back pain treated with the commonly accepted methods

Isn’t that like continuing to do the same thing again and again and expecting to get a different result?  Maybe it’s time to try another approach and resolve your short term relief from back pain.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Call us 82610177 to get a FREE assessment and find out how we can help you.

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Psoas Muscle Creates Huge Compression Force Over Low Back

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness.

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper shows the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

The biggest myth around damaged disc’s and back pain in general is that you always need surgery.

So why is a blown or herniated disc causing back pain?

Professor Lorimer Moseley from his book “Explain Pain” states:

“When muscles stay active for a long time, they tend to contract and shorten and start to feel stiff….. Alterations in muscle activity may be particularly important in association with spinal pain”

The Psoas muscles are what compresses and damages the Discs

The Disc herniates because of the huge compression force from your Psoas muscles that surrounds the Disc.

We sit from way back in a highchair as a baby, then we go to school and we sit another seven to twelve years. Then we go on to either university or to a desk job and we sit the rest of our lives, and even manual workers are bending a lot which is the same as sitting.

Even if you have gone under the knife for disc surgery this does not always solve the causative problem. For instance, the discs that are damaged are usually the last two in the spine. So if you have a Discectomy and they scrape out some of the disc, or worse a laminectomy where they have to restrict the movement in the spine and sometimes need to place metal struts in there, then down the track a new area of disc damage can occur above that level. This is because the issue that is causing the disc damage has not been addressed.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

If you have been diagnosed with a herniated or compressed disc and this is creating pain in your back

Call us now for a FREE postural assessment on 8261 0177 or book online below

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The Psoas Muscle And Back Pain 

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness.

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

A woman who came to me recently has been having back pain for years:  She has had many traditional treatments but is no better. Why?

At Posturepro physiotherapy we do not treat the back pain area where you feel your pain.

What we do instead, is treat the structure ‘the Psoas Muscle’ that is causing the back pain.

One of my clients said to me recently after treating her Psoas muscle that it felt like getting your hair washed at the hairdressers.

She said it was so gentle and relaxing and felt wonderful. I laughed, then I started thinking about what she had said.

You see, when I first started working with the Psoas muscles, over twenty years ago I was trained to stick elbows into them to get into these very deep and tight muscles.

The people that we treated would come back bruised and did not want their Psoas muscle treated again.  So I started to look into how the Psoas could be treated without having to dig into it and cause bruising for people.

Our Soaz method is so gentle and effective.

Over these many years I have evolved the method for treating the Psoas muscles.

I don’t need to pummel, prod and pound on someones body to get the results my clients get, and when I get feedback like that, it makes it all worthwhile.

The Soaz method I have developed, is gentle and yet dynamic and effective and it does not cause bruising!

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Call us now 82610177 or book online here

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Chronic Back pain and the Psoas muscle

How does chronic low back pain become chronic? 

The prestigious medical journal The Lancet did a 3 year investigation into low back pain

and they published in 2018 their findings on their recommended suggestions from that investigation. Their main recommendation was that what we are doing to treat back pain across the board is not working effectively and a call to action for Change. (read article below)

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper (below) shows the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

This is a bit like asking why do we just keep changing the tyre on our car that continues to wear out instead of looking at the Alignment in the car in the very beginning.

I have been treating  back pain with the Soaz method  for many years because I was not happy with the results I was seeing when I first graduated.  The men I was treating from the Holden Car manufacturing plant at Elizabeth in Adelaide suffered with chronic low back pain.  As therapists we would treat them, but they would return within 3-6 weeks with the same back pain.

It was at that time I started to do other courses and see what research was out there so I could get these men a different result. Over the last 15 years I have evolved this method The Soaz method that gets my clients ongoing relief from low back pain.

Why are we treating low back pain where the pain is felt?  Because musculoskeletal therapists are trained to do that. We have been educated in treating pain where the pain is felt.

The evidence that the way we continue to treat back pain is not working, is the increasing number of people worldwide suffering from ongoing low back pain and the increase in the cost of WorkCover payouts for people that never get rid of back pain regardless of all of the conventional and recommended treatment regimes, they are exposed to.  These protocols are based solely on focusing on where the back pain is felt without asking the question of why do we have back pain.

The bio-mechanics of the Psoas muscles (some call this muscle the ‘Soul muscle’) strategic placement along the lumbar spine makes it the prime contender to be the structure creating the compression forces over the lumbar spine resulting in damage to the discs, ligaments and nerves in that area.

This is why the Soaz Method does not treat back pain where it is felt, but rather the structures that create the damage in the low spine: the Psoas muscles.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Call us for a Free Assessment now 82610177 or Book Online and save

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Recurrent Workout Injury How Does It Happen?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

One of the major causes or recurrent workout injury is not having an optimal posture before beginning in the gym.

This results in extra strain over joints especially in the spine when executing an exercise.  The main postural muscle in the body is the Psoas muscle.  Before even beginning a gym program or starting at a fitness regime I recommend getting your Psoas checked and working optimally to reduce and even prevent many workout injuries from occurring and reoccurring.

Did you know that the body you had yesterday, is not the one you have today and why is the body constantly rebuilding itself? 

The bodies cells are constantly re-birthing and re-creating themselves.  Therefore, when you injure yourself, the body immediately starts to scoop up the injured tissues and starts to renew the site of injury without any help from us – its automatic.

So the only thing we really need to do to assist this process is to provide the right internal environment

to allow the body to get on with what it naturally does.  Having a great internal structure for the spine through the Psoas muscle being in it’s optimal condition, helps send the messages to the individual cells enabling the body to rebuild itself.

Having a great spinal alignment will aid and speed up this process.

The Psoas muscle is intrinsic to this process, because when working optimally it will keep the spinal alignment in good balance therefore promoting healing.

Make sure to eat healthy and flush out the toxins by drinking about 6-8 glasses of room temperature water a day

and keeping some moderate form of exercise like brisk walking at least 5 times per week and your injuries will heal in a timely fashion.

As a Physiotherapist, I see many people who injure themselves in an attempt to get themselves fit and healthy.

The downside of this is that they sometimes never return to their fitness or gym program.

When the person is ready to return to their fitness regime, they may decide not to go back to where they injured themselves for fear of re-injury.

This person may then start looking around for another facility or worse not bother to return at all, especially if that injury has had an impact on the performance of their job, or personal life.

Call us to get your Psoas muscle in its Optimal condition and help prevent workout injuries before they start.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method!

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Why Does My Back Pain Never Get Better

When I Have Tried So Many Different Treatments, Medications and Exercise?

The prestigious medial journal The Lancet did a 3 year investigation into back pain across the globe and across all musculoskeletal disciplines.  They came to the conclusion that what we are doing and how we are treating back pain is lacking evidence of effectiveness.  Read article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Why Does My Back Pain Never Get Better?

This would be the most asked question I get in my clinic from patients who come to me with persistent Low Back Pain.

They tell me about all the various treatment approaches they have tried with results seeming to only last a short time  before the back pain returns.

Back pain is one of the areas in our body that seems to just keep on keeping on.  Even though it is treated it just doesn’t seem to last very long before it appears again.

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One of the ways I used to answer this question before, was to assume it was something my client had done to undo all my good work.  One typical question might be “what have you been doing to make it painful?” Another question was about whether they have been doing their exercises?

This of course puts all of the blame back onto them.  This approach then makes them feel like a failure.  This is not the frame of mind to help themselves or me as their therapist.

Because I now know better, I explain to them how their back gets painful and what the answer is to avoid that long term.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Our approach may just be the answer for you

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Posture Is The Key To Fixing Back Pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

A 41 year old Professional woman with a 4 year history of back and leg pain came to see us.

Her other concern was her posture.

She reported her back pain was hindering her ability to look after her 4 year old son.

She wanted to start working out in the gym and start the yoga class she used to do

but her back pain was preventing this.

On checking her movements and posture, she had a short leg and her low back movement was restricted.  Her trunk movement was restricted 40% and her neck movement was restricted 75%.

These restrictions are typical of people with back pain, because the back pain is caused from Bad Posture.

So how do we get Bad Posture?

Our Postural Muscles that attach to our spine are responsible for bad posture. 

The postural muscles are constantly under compression forces.  The compression forces come from repetitive sitting.  If you think about how much sitting we do from the time we are babies right through school, then work or university, it’s a long long time of sitting.  When we travel we sit, when we entertain we sit and we sit to watch TV and play computer games.

After the Soaz treatement and return to exercise, this lady reported after working out she was recovering better and quicker

Why is she recovering quicker after exercise?

When our Postural muscles are treated correctly, they enable the body to work more efficiently and effectively. Therefore the blood and lymph are able to surge through the muscles more effectively and this ignites the nerves that feed these muscles.

So post Soaz treatment, this lady has no back pain and she is recovering quicker.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

If you also want to get these results call us for a FREE assessment

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Is Your Back Pain Just Arthritis?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

I hear from clients who come to me that they have been told by their GP that their back pain is just arthritis.

My Father was always telling me to pull my shoulders back when I was little.  I was not sure why he was telling me that, but it only lasted for the time he was there anyway, and then I reverted back to my normal posture.

It was not until many years later and as I was becoming a physiotherapist, that I realized how important our posture is and its impact on our body when it’s not good.

To prevent back pain and achieve good posture we first need good body alignment

You cannot change bad posture by doing just those things alone and you cannot change bad posture by just sitting up straight or holding your shoulders back or even wearing a shoulder brace.  Incorrect Posture will inevitably lead to back pain.

Our postural muscles are where bad alignment starts and also back pain.

So, you need to start with your postural muscles.  Our postural muscles are our Psoas muscles, these are the most powerful and strategically placed muscles for creating all sorts of misalignment in our body.

Our postural muscles are constantly under compression forces from sitting

To prevent back pain with good posture, you first have to have fluid Psoas muscles and then be mindful of your alignment and what you are sitting on.  It’s the act of sitting that starts off bad posture.  Maybe my Father should have said don’t sit if you don’t need to, rather than “sit up straight!”

Our Posture, in other words, our alignment in our body, is critical to keeping pain away.  Think of the alignment in a car that when out, starts a whole cascade of events in your car like wearing out the tyres and affecting the steering. So it is with our body, if our pelvis is tilted and our spine does not have a level foundation then that is what starts our spine to not working optimally, leading to back pain and sciatica.

Your spine’s curves

A healthy back has three natural curves:

• An inward or forward curve at the neck (cervical curve)
• An outward or backward curve at the upper back (thoracic curve)
• An inward curve at the lower back (lumbar curve)

Good posture helps maintain these natural curves, while poor posture does the opposite — which can stress or pull muscles and cause pain.

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Why Do We Pathologize The Body

into Separate pain Areas and Diagnosises?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Western medicine has taken us down a road of specialization with regards to the body.

We are compartmentalizing the body into various pain areas, labeling these pain areas and diagnosing it as a ‘back problem’ or a ‘hip problem’ or a ‘shoulder problem’.

We are training our Therapists and General Practitioners to study these areas in Isolation – so we say about a back, that your discs are warn or you have an impinged nerve, and in your knee you have bony spurs or cartilage damage.

Then as Therapists we take on these diagnosis and start to treat where the local area of pain is.

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Back Pain – How Does It Become Chronic?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

We label Low back pain as either Acute, meaning it is of recent onset and Chronic

where (for instance back pain), the same pain returns on a regular basis and with time, usually becomes more intense, more frequent and also seems to refer to other areas of the body like the hips and legs.

And even though this pain is treated on a regular basis, this seems to only last for short periods before it flares up again.

As a new Graduate, many years ago I was treating men from the Holden Car Manufacturing Plant at Elizabeth  in Adelaide.

This baptism of fire was to become the best thing that happened to me in my profession that I had chosen.

My expectation for these men was to treat them how I had been trained to do and they would get better.

This totally naive expectation was soon replaced with frustration, questioning myself as a physiotherapist and finally just feeling like the situation was hopeless.  We would treat these men, but then they would return not long after with the same back pain.  I really felt I could not help them and this made me angry that after four years of studying it had come down to this.

My instinct was to try and see if there was another way to get these men a better result.

Over this long journey, I came across the work of one of our most prominent leaders in pain: Professor Lorimer Moseley of the “Explain Pain” book.

Lorimer’s writings and relentless research has him questioning how we interpret pain in the body and the way we therefore treat it.

One of the proposals Lorimer makes and to keep it in simple terms for my readers – is that

“PAIN is produced by the brain when the brain feels threatened, NOT from tissue damage”.

So put simply – this proposition that treating where pain is felt, is the reason that acute pain becomes chronic pain.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

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 Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

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Migraine Headaches and Bad Posture

How are they connected?

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

If I use the analogy of a house with bad alignment or bad foundations, that leads to cracks in the walls and windows jamming – and you just keep patching up the cracks and shaving the windows when really what needs to be done, is the foundations need to be fixed.

It’s the same with Migraine headaches; just treating your cervical spine (your neck) and massaging the neck muscles may get some short term relief from your Migraines,

but without changing the Posture and the Foundations in the Body, and getting a better Postural Alignment in your spine and neck, the Migraines will continue.

Look, if you are putting up with Migraine headaches that limit your life and you feel a constant dark cloud hanging over you, and you need to keep taking pain killers that maybe don’t work as well as they used to,

Then I want to offer you Hope; and tell you about a Method I use in my Physiotherapy Clinic that achieves optimal posture and alignment that changes your neck position.

The method I have developed starts with getting your posture aligned and when we have that, our neck position and our upper back sit in a more aligned and correct position.

Having a better aligned spine takes the compression off of the spine and nerves and allows the nerves to work in a more effective way.

Just getting better posture, is only the first step in this process.

Once you have achieved good posture, you have to maintain that posture.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Call us Now p) 8261 0177 or book online here 

Download our FREE App “The Psoas 3D Interactive Model”

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/psoas-3d-interactive-model/id1201600479?ls=1

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Catastrophization of Back Pain:  MRI Results!

This 3-year study into back pain across the globe published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet reports that our current treatments for back pain are lacking in evidence of effectiveness. See article below

LANCET ARTICLE low back pain

This research paper [below] shows how the Psoas Major Muscle exerts huge compression and sheer forces on our low spine resulting in crumpling and severely shearing the lumbar spine.

Anatomy and biomechanics of psoas major

Let’s put back pain into some perspective.

By the time you start getting back pain, your posture has already been compromised!

So repetitively treating your back pain ad-nauseum, will not resolve your back pain.

In fact, if you only keep having your back pain area treated you can be sure of one thing –

your back pain will continually keep coming back and it will increase in intensity and restrict your movements in your body going forward.

So at some point in this process your GP may recommend that you have a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan done of your back – this is quite common.

Most MRI scans will show degenerated discs around lumbar 4 & 5 levels, decreased disc space and even some bony degeneration – these are also quite common.

Then the MRI report will be sent on to your GP and they will go over with you, what the report has found.

Invariably, the report is going to tell you everything that was found and the deterioration of your low spine.

When you hear this, you are probably going to be even more concerned about your back pain and whether it will ever get better because your GP has confirmed this degeneration.

Now you not only have the pain, but you now have confirmation about the physical damage in your back and now you feel there is no hope!

The MRI has become like a self full-filling prophecy for you!

You now begin to see the future through the lens of the MRI.  You’re possibly imagining a back operation as your only hope, with lots of rehabilitation that will need to be done after that operation.  You’re thinking how that is going to affect your ability to continue working and having a normal life.

Posturepro is the home of the Soaz Method

Call us Now p) 8261 0177 or book online here if you are struggling with ongoing Back pain.

Download our FREE ebook “What Really Causes Back Pain”

also, Download our FREE App “The Psoas 3D Interactive Model” (see links below)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/psoas-3d-interactive-model/id1201600479?ls=1

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