The early care of low-back pain using a series of stretching exercises that include knee to chest stretching, straight leg rising stretching, sitting toe touches and lumbar flexion stretching aid the gradual healing of low-back pain without the need for medical treatment. With such stretching, sufficient ability to bend the body in flexion is achieved. Further, the strengthening of the lumbar muscles with graded weight lifting continues a path to recovery and control over what would otherwise be immobilizing low-back pain.
An integrated back pain and back health program incorporating proper posture to achieve joint realignment and muscle relaxation, proper breathing to achieve stress management and muscle relaxation, and an exercise program focused on the muscles of the back, neck, shoulders, abdomen and hips to achieve muscle and joint flexibility and strengthening. By providing instruction on maintaining proper posture, the protocol offers back pain sufferers relief from the stress caused by muscles involuntarily attempting to realign and/or stabilize misaligned joints. The breathing techniques used in the protocol aid in muscle relaxation and, together with proper posture, maximize the benefits of the exercises performed in the procedure. The exercises in the protocol stretch and strengthen the muscles that are commonly implicated in the occurrence of back pain, release spasm in those muscles, and reset those muscles to normal tonus.
