Hips and Lower Back Pain Learn about techniques you can do at home to release tight muscles of the hip, specifically the glutes, piriformis, the deep hip rotators and of course iliacus. According to physical therapist and author of Tight Hip Twisted Core Christine Koth "When the iliacus and the psoas are tight, they play tug of war with the back of the hip. So that's the glutes, the piriformis, the deep hip rotators and those muscles have chosen to also contract oftentimes as a...

Muscle Knots with Christine Koth ****************************** This is the second part of the interview with Christine, physical therapist and author of Tight Hip, Twisted Core: The Key to Unresolved Pain. Today we're talking about muscle knots. Christine tells us: “Tight actually means that either the muscle will not lengthen to its proper length;it's unable to fully lengthen (usually because the brain tells it not to) or there's actual contraction inside the muscle itself, a part...

Tightness in the iliacus is is something that a lot of people have...it's not being addressed Iliacus Dysfunction and Pain With Christine Koth ******************************************* In today's epsiode, we're talking about the iliacus, the lesser known relation of the psoas. Together these 2 muscles make up an important hip flexor composite muscle known as the iliopsoas. Tight hip flexors, particularly a tight psoas, are often considered responsible for back pain. In her 20+...

What to Do If Your Doctor Doesn't Listen to You You don't have to put up with a doctor who doesn't listen or doesn't believe what you say. It's usually straightforward to change doctors. In this, the third and final instalment from Amy Orr we talk about what to do if your doctor doesn't listen to you. This can be a real problem for people with chronic pain conditions. Amy has some very down-to-earth and practical advice for you if you find yourself in this situation. “You...

What to Do If Your Doctor Doesn't Listen to You You don't have to put up with a doctor who doesn't listen or doesn't believe what you say. It's usually straightforward to change doctors. In this, the third and final instalment from Amy Orr we talk about what to do if your doctor doesn't listen to you. This can be a real problem for people with chronic pain conditions. Amy has some very down-to-earth and practical advice for you if you find yourself in this situation. “You...

The pain cycle has both physical and psychological elements. Chronic pain and bodily vulnerablity cause anxiety, fear and anger. Anxiety, fear and anger will in turn cause physical tension, restriction and pain. Breaking this pain cycle is an essential part of self care for chronic pain. Hello and welcome to episode 39 of the BPLP. I'm Iain Barker, here to help you find your way out of chronic back pain. “I can't think of much that's more frightening than not being able to...

The pain cycle has both physical and psychological elements. Chronic pain and bodily vulnerablity cause anxiety, fear and anger. Anxiety, fear and anger will in turn cause physical tension, restriction and pain. Breaking this pain cycle is an essential part of self care for chronic pain. Hello and welcome to episode 39 of the BPLP. I'm Iain Barker, here to help you find your way out of chronic back pain. “I can't think of much that's more frightening than not being able to...

Don't passively rely on your doctor to manage your health care. Instead, you should do your own research and find what works for you. This is the message from todays guest, Amy Orr. “There's just such a breadth of tools and therapies and other people's stories and other people's clever solutions to things that, you just have to read a lot and do a lot of research” -Amy Orr Amy is what you might call a chronic pain survivor, suffering from back problems since early childhood,...

Don't passively rely on your doctor to manage your health care. Instead, you should do your own research and find what works for you. This is the message from todays guest, Amy Orr. “There's just such a breadth of tools and therapies and other people's stories and other people's clever solutions to things that, you just have to read a lot and do a lot of research” -Amy Orr Amy is what you might call a chronic pain survivor, suffering from back problems since early childhood,...

Thanks for joining me for Episode 37 of the Back Pain Liberation Podcast. My name is Iain Barker, here to help you find your way out of chronic back pain. Today's guest is David Hanscom MD, author of Do You Really Need Spine Surgery?: Take Control With a Spine Surgeon’s Advice. We're talking about the causes of chronic back pain, which is defined as back pain that persists for more than 12 weeks. You'll learn how chronic pain is completely different to acute pain which means that...

Thanks for joining me for Episode 37 of the Back Pain Liberation Podcast. My name is Iain Barker, here to help you find your way out of chronic back pain. Today's guest is David Hanscom MD, author of Do You Really Need Spine Surgery?: Take Control With a Spine Surgeon’s Advice. We're talking about the causes of chronic back pain, which is defined as back pain that persists for more than 12 weeks. You'll learn how chronic pain is completely different to acute pain which means that...

If you are considering back surgery, especially if you are in the USA, I would strongly urge you to listen to this show, to the end. As well as the next episode number 37. You're going to learn why spine surgery is not appropriate for the vast majority of people with back pain and find out what you should be doing instead. Quote of the day, which Oscar winning actor said “My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.” Answer...

If you are considering back surgery, especially if you are in the USA, I would strongly urge you to listen to this show, to the end. As well as the next episode number 37. You're going to learn why spine surgery is not appropriate for the vast majority of people with back pain and find out what you should be doing instead. Quote of the day, which Oscar winning actor said “My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.” Answer...

One of the physical symptoms of chronic stress is muscular tension and pain, particularly back pain. Some stress is unavoidable, whether it's from work or studying, maybe you find some of the people in your life difficult to deal with. This time we talk about how to handle the stress that you can't get rid of. So listen in for practical strategies on managing stress and anxiety for back pain sufferers. Quote of the day "Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies...

One of the physical symptoms of chronic stress is muscular tension and pain, particularly back pain. Some stress is unavoidable, whether it's from work or studying, maybe you find some of the people in your life difficult to deal with. This time we talk about how to handle the stress that you can't get rid of. So listen in for practical strategies on managing stress and anxiety for back pain sufferers. Quote of the day "Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies...

You spend a fair chunk of your waking hours at work, so your work environment has quite an impact on your life. There's a whole lot of advice, online and elsewhere, on how to relieve back pain at work. Most of this advice is about ergonomics or lifting safely. While this stuff is important, I think it's easy to miss out on a major, even the main cause of work related back pain. In todays show we continue to explore the themes of personality type and social environment in the work...

You spend a fair chunk of your waking hours at work, so your work environment has quite an impact on your life. There's a whole lot of advice, online and elsewhere, on how to relieve back pain at work. Most of this advice is about ergonomics or lifting safely. While this stuff is important, I think it's easy to miss out on a major, even the main cause of work related back pain. In todays show we continue to explore the themes of personality type and social environment in the work...

Find out why your personality type is important. Introvert vs extrovert. Recognise and cope with demands of your social environment | Podcast episode BPL33

Find out why your personality type is important. Introvert vs extrovert. Recognise and cope with demands of your social environment | Podcast episode BPL33

The vagus nerve is the longest and most complex nerve connecting the brain to the major internal organs. This is how we regulate breathing, heart rate, digestion and more. We want to restore the vagus nerve to optimal function. In this way we spend more time in the parasympathetic nervous state of ‘rest and digest’ rather than ‘fight or flight’. My guest today is Abby Beauchamp. We talk about the importance of the vagus nerve for chronic back pain particularly how to stimulate...

The vagus nerve is the longest and most complex nerve connecting the brain to the major internal organs. This is how we regulate breathing, heart rate, digestion and more. We want to restore the vagus nerve to optimal function. In this way we spend more time in the parasympathetic nervous state of ‘rest and digest’ rather than ‘fight or flight’. My guest today is Abby Beauchamp. We talk about the importance of the vagus nerve for chronic back pain particularly how to stimulate...

In the context of chronic back pain, she says we should be mindful of our environment, and aware of how it affects us in mind, body and spirit. We should ask ourselves “What are we feeding our mind? What are we watching? What are we listening to? Who are we spending time with? What are we putting into our bodies?” Is the environment that we create for ourselves in line with the goal of a happy pain-free life? For example, as we talked about last time, plenty of us find driving...

In the context of chronic back pain, she says we should be mindful of our environment, and aware of how it affects us in mind, body and spirit. We should ask ourselves “What are we feeding our mind? What are we watching? What are we listening to? Who are we spending time with? What are we putting into our bodies?” Is the environment that we create for ourselves in line with the goal of a happy pain-free life? For example, as we talked about last time, plenty of us find driving...

Back Pain from Driving Today I'm talking to Abby Beauchamp, founder of the Ortho Healing centre in Portland in Oregon, and the conversation just kept coming back to cars and driving. Like Heather Pearson, my guest in the last episode, and so many others, Abby suffered chronic back pain resulting from a car accident. This introduced her to the world of bodyworkers and healers but it was years later when circumstances led to her changing career and starting to work as an Ortho-bionomist...