Honolulu, Hawaii & Los Angeles — Six tips for decreasing pain & inflammation for low back pain:
1. Drink fresh squeezed ginger juice (one or two ounces). This is the healthy equivalent of doing shots of whiskey. Be careful, its not easy to put it down. But within 10 seconds of downing it, you will feel better. It naturally decreases inflammation in your body.
2. Swim the backstroke. Backstroke will get your shoulders back. Getting the shoulders back will take pressure off the low back. Everything we do in life causes our shoulders to go forward - including freestyle swimming. This can add to low back pain by causing shoulders to lurch forward.
3. Sleep on your back. Avoid sleeping on your side or your stomach. Sleeping on your side will cause you to push your shoulder into the socket. Shoulder tightness affects neck mobility; and neck tension causes more stiffness in the low back. The neck and back are on the same column. One affects the other. Sleeping on your back with your legs and ankles elevated is best for posture. Put two pillows underneath each knee and ankle (the long way).
4. Take a bath with apple cider vinegar and epsom salt. One quart of each is probably enough for most people. When I did this (I no longer need it) I used one gallon of apple cider vinegar and at least two quarts of salt. Soak for thirty minutes with hot water. It gets your tub really clean too.
5. Walk barefoot on the beach. And rest on the beach with an organic material, like cotton or straw, underneath you. Most people are electron deprived, electrons are strongest where the sand meets the surf. Being recharged with electrons will decrease inflammation in your body. When walking on the beach try to walk on the flat part to prevent an imbalance to your hips.
6. Get Active Isolated Stretching treatment. Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) from a trained therapist will manually pull apart the shortened muscles that are causing you back pain. AIS treatment will do more than reduce back pain, it will resolve back pain.
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