Are you sitting up to straight?

Yes, that’s right. Sitting up to straight and constantly over correcting your spine can be the source of all your back pain. Have you ever wondered why sitting up straight causes you pain? Basically over straightening the middle of your spine is one of the worst things you could be doing for back and upper body pain in the body.

Constantly,I am finding people are dramatically over straightening the middle of their backs when sitting. Most of these people have been taught its good posture, in fact it is actually the source of most of their pain. Once our body looses its natural thoracic curve in the spine, we loose correct hip alignment and loose our ability to breath through our belly. All these movements are vital in keeping our mobility and keeping us pain free.

• Remember the spine always need its curves, these are the cushions for movement
• Above is optimal curve for ease of movement
• A slight curve without dramatically slouching or sitting too straight is optimal

Joanne Paine

Healthy Balance Massage therapy

Why do I have back pain?

This is the question everybody asks when experiencing back pain! I’m here to share with you YES there is a reason and YES you can fix it yourself. The first step is realizing you can fix your back.

The body works mechanically as a pully system constantly stabilizing itself against every joint and movement we make. Once we become unaware of our natural breathing and movement patterns our pully system creates tension and overload in places which where never equipped to stabalise us and move the body correctly, from here is where the tension grows then develops as back pain or pain in the body.

Fixing this is simply and most importantly done with our breath! The movement we average 23,040 times per day.

The key for our pully system to work efficiently is expanding our belly out like a balloon to the front and back on the INBREATH. This is what stabilizes and stretches all the deep muscles of the spine, also creating a deep stretch and stabilization of the hips and allows the upper body to stabilize and move freely.

This is our natural breathing pattern from birth, however once the pully system starts to move incorrectly the breathing system becomes lost. Focusing on expanding your belly out on the in breath and relaxing with gentle abdominal pressure on the out breath is the key to not only fixing back pain, but moving the body at its natural state and to the best of its ability! Joanne Paine Healthy Balance Massage therapy Where is my back pain coming from?