Hip Pain/Back Pain page 2
Perhaps the major, negative factor contributing to hip problems
is tension in the leg muscles. Think about it; if the leg
muscles: quadriceps, illio-tibial band (I.T. band), adductors,
and hamstrings are shortened, and all of ours are, then the
hip (and knee) joint they cross will be compressed and distorted.
Those muscles never shorten symmetrically and so the joints
are always compressed asymmetrically; and this is where the
degenerative wear and tear comes in.
Identify any problem in the skeleton and there will be areas
that need to be addressed, above and below that problem area.
There are no isolated problem areas because the musculo-skeletal
system is like a spider web. Pull or tug on or mess with any
area of the web and there will be negative repercussions throughout
it. Many things need to be untangled and addressed to remedy
one, seemingly isolated symptomatic area. This is another
reason why treating a symptom as "the problem" doesn't
work
By releasing those muscles from each other and the bone,
and by lengthening and organizing them, the knee and the hip
joints (*along with the low back) are allowed to decompress
and reorganize. It's not rocket science, but rather simply
logical, mechanical dynamics. Treating a structural problem,
with drugs or unnecessary surgery is expensive, dangerous,
and ultimately counter-productive, since drugs (poison) will
only depress and strain your immune system and surgery (mutilation)
will, in almost all cases, simply add insult to injury and
make your situation worse. Use your common sense, before drugs
or surgery, please exhaust all other less aggressive, intrusive,
and harmful methods.
The simplest, most effective all-around self-maintenance
tools you'll find for releasing tension in all the major chronic
pain problem areas of your body. They will release and organize
your musculature and release and align your skeleton.
Areas addressed:
Spine, Ribcage, Shoulder Girdle, Neck, Your Whole Back, Pelvis,
Sacrum, Hips, Thighs, Calves, Feet.
Using my understanding of body mechanics and myofascial release
work, I have discovered ways to perform the most amazing structural
release / massage bodywork on yourself using these Rollers.
They are the perfect compliment to the Flextasy Flexibility
System of movement, in that they speed up the process of loosening
the body. Once you begin using these Rollers you will wonder
how you ever got along without them.
They are easy to understand and to use. The accompanying
instruction booklet (which I wrote) contains a wealth of information
concerning body mechanics, and why most back treatments fail
to have lasting results. The concepts, images, and exercises
included will enlighten and empower you. Understanding your
own body is more important than knowing a professional who
may be able to temporarily "fix" you; self-maintenance
is the key to health and fitness.
You will not find a simpler, more effective method for releasing
the old accumulated tension, and the chronic everyday tension,
from your body.
You can think of these Rollers as an insurance policy against
injury. Muscle pulls, strains, tears, and even the breaking
of bones can be avoided by attaining flexibility and skeletal
alignment. Working with the Rollers gives you both of these.
You'll feel their effectiveness from the very first time you
use them. You do not have to keep getting stiffer and more
decrepit as you grow older. You can turn back your Structural
Aging Clock by working with these incredible tools.
For less than the price of a single massage, you will have
in your possession something you can use everyday, at your
leisure, which will enable you to understand and break your
own pain cycle. It's like having your own physical therapist,
chiropractor, and masseuse in your home, at your beck and
call.
I've been using these Rollers for over 14 years and I attribute
a huge part of my current level of fitness to them. I never
travel without one and they are something I use everyday for
at least a few minutes; while other days I schedule 20 to
30 minutes with them to keep myself on track.
I guarantee you that using these Rollers will change your
life and be one of the best things that ever happened to you!
Don't delay, get these; you won't regret it!
More info on the Structural Release
Rollers
3 Tennis Ball in a Sock
This is one of the cheapest, most effective little self-maintenance
tools you can make yourself and use to your great benefit.
To Make the Tool
Put 3 (preferably new) tennis balls in a tube sock and tie
a knot in the sock. The balls should be pushed in tight and
the knot tied as close to the balls as possible. As the sock
stretches you can retie the knot again to take out the slack.
What You Use It For
This useful tool can be utilized to work on the gluteals,
the deep rotator muscles in the hip area, the sacrum and low
back, along the spine, the whole back area, the upper legs.
*To great effect you can use, out of the sock, tennis balls
to work on your feet in conjunction with Evolution Health
Fix Your Feet Balls (or firm rubber Hand Balls from a sporting
goods store).
For the Sacrum, Low Back, Hips
Sit on the floor and place the tool behind you. Your knees
are bent, your feet are flat on the floor, your hands are
on the floor behind you supporting you as you lean back. Lift
your pelvis off the floor and sit on the tool. Keeping your
knees bent you are now supported by your feet and hands on
the floor and wherever you have the tool.
Begin slowly moving around using the tool to access your
low back, your sacral area (the triangular bone at the base
of your spine, the back part of your pelvis), both sides of
your hips. You are looking for pain. When you find it, slow
down or stop, Breathe!, and try to relax over and onto the
balls.
After you've worked the back of the pelvis, roll to one side,
with the tool in your hip area. Work into any pain you can
find there, where the femur (thigh bone) attaches to the pelvis.
Most likely you'll find plenty to work with here.
The tool is used like a pain eraser as you continue your
work with it, eventually, over time, getting all the pain
out of all these areas.
For the Upper Legs
While on your side, slowly begin moving so that you are rolling
the tool down the side of your leg, again, looking for pain.
Work any areas on the leg you can access with the tool; front,
sides, back. Be creative and intuitive.
Pain you find with this tool is unhappy tissue which is disorganized,
stuck together, compressed and dense.
For the Spine and Back Area
Lie face up on the floor with the tool somewhere under your
back. Slowly explore along your spine, your upper back around
your scapulas (shoulder blades), or anywhere else.
*The key to the use of this tool is when you find a painful,
sore area, be gentle with yourself, slow down (or stop), and
Breathe! It's the use of the breath, with full relaxing exhales,
feeling a wave of relaxation and softening travel through
the whole body, that the pain you are finding can actually
be dissolved and released. Used properly, as described above,
this tool is not causing pain, it is uncovering pain that
is already there and needs to be addressed.
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