Back Pain … And The Mirror Test

Back pain and a mirror, it seems an unlikely combination. However …

With a mirror you can determine the type of back pain you have and therefore the best and quickest ways to remove it. There are two types of back pain: joint related and muscular back pain.

Stretches are ideal for the muscular back pain, or at least to ease tension temporarily. To correct muscular back pain you actually need to address both the tight muscles and the muscles that are weak.

The second type of back pain is usually harder to fix. After all to get joints moving you need to see a practitioner to ease their tension. Or do you?

At then end of this article there is a bit of information that is radically new on joint related back pain…

Onto the mirror test…

What you need to do is stand in front of a mirror. Preferably without clothes or just in your underwear so you can see the distortion better. Look at how you stand…

Do you see a twisting in your body?

You will notice this by your belly button not pointing straight back to you in the mirror. It may point slightly left or right. You may also notice the gap between your arm and your body is bigger on one side compared to the other. The simplest test is this …

Turn your body fractionally to the left and then to the right. Does your body actually look better turned more to one side? Remember, it is only a few centimeters or even millimeters that you need to turn.

If any of these are present or if you turn your body and you see a straighter you … then you have muscular back pain. Or at least will soon.

To see if you have joint back pain, you will have muscular back pain already and you may notice that your pelvis is shunted left or right. Not a lot but enough so that your upper body seems displaced to the left or right compared to the lower part of your body.

Another simple test for joint back pain is to lie on the floor and gently raise each leg as far as you can until you feel your back becoming sore. If you can raise one leg more than the other then you have joint related back pain.

Either way, whether you have joint or muscular back pain and most of you may even have both. There are simple and easy ways to release tension and ways to make sure your back pain leaves, never to return.

80% of adults have back pain at some stage, over 50% of you reading this have back pain now. Yet over 90% of you will do nothing about your back pain until it is severe or debilitating.

Learning to get rid of your back pain now is the key for complete and permanent back pain relief.