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"I've been reading your
books, very helpful. They're very clear and easy to understand which
is rare when people talk about stuff like that."
Personal Trainer & Professional Athlete
Lou's
Professional Training
This book
explains how the great majority of chronic back pain, including lower back
pain, is actually caused by accumulated shortness in the "fascia" soft
connective tissue element of many muscles, and not in the nerve and
"muscle" parts.
So the usual
neuro-muscular and joint manipulation methods often won't fix the cause of
the problem because they're not addressing this fascia.
If you, or someone
you know, has a back "condition," or often has a lot of back tightness,
this book can explain just why you have it and what you can do to actually
fix it. This treatment can usually do that and also reform your
whole body so it's more flexible and agile at the same time that the back
problem gets less, or even goes away.
You can even do
some lengthening & tightness removal with the kinds of stretches I show on
my videos.
The structural integration bodywork method, and my
structural stretching method, also both make it easier to keep stretching
out and massages usually do more, too. This big improvement in how
the body feels and works usually happens for everybody, regardless of
their age.
See - My
Stretching & Hands-on How-to DVD Videos Info Page
When you
understand the way our body structures work, it can clarify why other
methods you've tried have not worked, or perhaps, have provided temporary
relief but haven't given you a long term fix. The book explains
all of this in great detail, as well as outlining the method that does
create long term fixes & how this
treatment or these stretches can help other practices like massage,
chiropractic, acupuncture and even surgery, be perhaps more effective.
There's also a chapter on how to find and interview a practitioner.
If you're a massage
therapist, yoga teacher, chiropractor or athletic trainer, this book can
give you concrete information that you can use right away to be more
effective.
Add in my Video
how-to's for both the stretches and the hands-on and you can do even more.
They are designed for people to do a stroke by stroke and stretch by
stretch follow along as an actual session. And subsets of the
stretches can be done quickly throughout the day.
The underlying cause of
developing, and on going, back problems, including a lot of protruding
disk, pinched nerve and sciatica conditions, is a "whole-body" shortness
of that "fascia." Many muscles are all bunched up in a lot of areas,
and the place it often "shows up" is in the back, especially the lower
back.
This overall
shortness causes a distortion in the body's shape. The most obvious
thing we see is from the side. There's a zig-zagging between the
person's legs, torso and head. They don't line up on top of each
other in a balanced straight line.
Most typically, the pelvis tilts
down in front, called an anterior pelvic tilt, the legs lean
forward, the calves bulge backward, and the lower back arches backward,
while the entire back of the body from head to heel is contracted tight
and short. Some people have an additional tightness so that it
shows up as a dip in the back of the pelvis, a posterior tilt, often
from wearing high heeled shoes.
Above this, the head and neck may jut
forward, the chest and shoulders may round forward, there may be a lot of
upper back and neck tightness and even the rib cage is tilted down forward
with overly shortened abdominal muscles.
Further, the feet and knees will
often be splayed outward. In essence, the entire body's muscles
system is shortened and one part pulls upon all the others.
Part of this distortion can be seen
in the spine. It's misaligned. Even when the person lies down, the curves
in the lumbar and cervical areas are two sharp. That in itself can keep
putting vertebrae out of alignment.
There's also chronic tightness in the
back muscles, and the vertebrae are pulled too close together so they
might pinch nerves and compress disks.
Another example is with shortened
abdominals from sit-ups and crunches - then the only way to straighten up
the chest and head is to thrust the hip joints and thighs forward & pull
the back backward including the top back of the neck and the back of
the head. So the hip joints get put into a rubbing position of the
thigh bones into the pelvic sockets. Low back tightness & pain is
thus related to hip joint problems. And the upper vertebrae, the
atlas and axis, are jammed into the lower back head bone, the occiput.
This even tightens the jaw & inside the mouth. The whole structure
is now misaligned.
The book explains all of this in
more detail, & the point of Structural Integration & my Structural
fascial lengthening stretching is to remove all these to & fro tightnesses
that are now fixed in the fascia so the body is more aligned again.
Even when the person's nerves and
muscle "fiber" parts relax, the fascial shortness still keeps everything
too tight. The distortion doesn't go away with massage to the
painful areas, with magnetics or heat wraps in improve circulation, nor
with adjustments to the vertebrae that are "out." Those
methods can make us feel better for a while, but the underlying cause
hasn't been re-lengthened out.
Furthermore,
if back surgery just fuses vertebrae together, the same tight muscle pulls
will still be there, pulling on the spine, neck, shoulders and even down
into the legs.
If one gets disk rebuilding
injections, re-lengthening the shortnesses that caused the pressure on the
disks can help the new tissue to grow "better," and the overall long term
benefits can be more effective and maybe longer lasting.
The way to actually correct the
tightness and the pain it causes is to methodically re-lengthen the fascia
"system" of the whole body. This requires a specialized hands-on
technique and a knowledge of the sequence needed to unravel the many tight
and interconnected muscles.
Thorough Structural Integration
Bodywork can do this. And much can also be done for a lot of
people with "knowledgeably applied" massage and stretching.
See - My
Stretching & Hands-on How-to DVD Videos Info Page
This is know how you can get from the
book. It tells you just how things are distorted; which muscles are
affecting what bones so that this section zigs and that one zags.
Then it gives you the principles
about Body Structure that enable us to re-lengthen and re-align the
head-to-toe shape. It also gives the areas we work in sequentially,
the "recipe" of 10 steps used in the basic Structural Integration process.
It even gives some ways we can modify the order of those steps to make the
treatment more effective.
In fact, I
have now found that my expanded stretching repertoire of my Structural
Integration Stretching really helps improve structural alignment and even
on the phone, in a sample stretch coaching session, people have removed
their back and other pains. Right then.
Now, as I said above, I also have
DVDs for how to do hands-on Bodywork for yourself and also for people you
know, family-friends, even massage therapists.
So you can get a combination of the
stretching, the hands-on and the knowledge, all in one package.
See - My
Stretching & Hands-on How-to DVD Videos Info Page
See - Package Deal
of these items, just above on this page
This info won't give you all the
details nor teach you the hands-on method to make you into a practitioner.
But if you're into stretching or deep massage, you can be a lot more
effective. If you're a new Practitioner, this book can be a good
guide to help you get better at fixing back pain and other tightnesses.
Even if you do need surgery to
repair severely degenerated disks, or remove bone edges, or you gain
benefit from a general massage and other physical and nutritional
therapies, you can read in this book how getting Structural Integration
helps all these do more for you.
My Professional
Bodywork Training: I was trained in Postural Integration by the
founder, Jack Painter PhD, and certified trainers Jack Haer PhD &
Marv Treiger PhD.
I also took classes and
workshops in Structural Integration and Integrated Movement with Rolfer
(r) Roger Pierce PhD and Rolfing Movement (r) Teacher Alexandra Pierce
PhD, developers of Movement Enhancement. I had a workshop each with
Joseph Heller, developer of Hellerwork (r) and Ted Looyen, P.I. trainer
and developer of Looyenwork.
Besides a lot of P.I.,
I've had treatments from other Structural Integration types of methods.
More detailed
training info
Call Lou, Toll Free VM 1-321-726-9083
310-285-8132 in L.A., or foreign, or
e-mail
Also please call 321-726-9083 direct
to Lou.
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