Low back Pain and Sciatica Success Story for a rock and roll drummer

We are blessed to witness wonderful recoveries after months or even years of health problems.  Today’s success story is a gentleman who is a youthful 35 years old. This young man works during the day at an auto dealership in the service department and is a drummer in a rock band in evenings and weekends.  He was referred here by another drummer musician we take care of (we take care of many musicians).  Playing drums is hard on the body, I guess. 

I met this young man about a year ago and he didn’t look like this but when I saw him in July when he came in, he was not looking good.  He was leaning his torso a bit to the side to keep the pressure off his low back.  He said he’d been like this since last December despite seeking some care in another chiropractic office, home remedies and previous doctors consulted. 

What we found after getting images of his spine was not only his low back was twisted, which you could see looking at him and you didn’t need an x-ray or a doctor to tell you that.  But, X-rays are very helpful to evaluate the exact segments causing it and the angles to correct it there. I wouldn't go where they didn't know the segments to adjust.

But, his neck was so bent forward it was tugging on his spinal cord all the way down to his low back making his low back worse that what the low back image would suggest. In this image you can see his head is 39 mm forward of his shoulders and neck curve reduced from normal 45 degrees to a negative 1.5 degrees. "reverse curve".

The solution to his misery was correcting the whole spine and nervous system.  Not just treating the area of pain.  In addition to correction of the twisted low back, this required neck exercises to restore the normal alignment “up there” to alleviate the pressure “down there”.  By the way, his neck didn't hurt at all.

Here's his neck 30 days later, with forward head posture reduced by 12 mm. He also recovered 9 degrees of his curve. Normal curve is 45 degrees... so a ways to go. But, fabulous results so far.

This case is very instructive when helping people understand how the body really works.  Had we just ran some ultrasound, maybe some electrical stimulation or a TENS unit over his low back pain, he’d have felt better right away.  However, the problem isn’t the swelling or muscle spasm present in the low back, that’s the effect.

 Everywhere else he went, the focus was on the symptom, the low back pain.  Not the cause of the low back pain.  It could be said the muscle spasm is the cause of his pain… true… but what’s the cause of THAT?  I have a saying: Muscles are stupid.  They can’t do anything on their own.  Consider that if you have spasms in your upper back, neck or low back muscles like this guy, then fell and broke your neck and severed your spinal cord, you’d immediately be done with your muscle spasms.  Because the nerves are the real cause. Muscles only contract because the nerve is firing that goes to that muscle. Why is the nerve firing?  THAT’s the question.  

This guy was leaning sideways because of protective muscle spasm. In the medical arena he’d be treated with muscle relaxers and anti-inflammatory medication.  Addressing only the symptom.   Here’s where we get even further away from the medical paradigm: That spasm is actually protecting him from more damage. That’s why it’s there. We don’t WANT to treat the spasm. The body is intelligent, and it does this to protect from further damage.  It’s the same reason I caution people about taking analgesics and going to play golf or pickleball.  You’d be blocking pain signals that your body uses to keep you from causing MORE damage.  If you can’t do it without Ibuprofen, don’t do it. Fix it. Don’t cover it up.   

Let me skip ahead to the result in his life a couple short months after starting corrective care for his spine. He says he wakes up and can just walk normally now, right away. Not like having to stretch, take a hot shower and "loosen up". He walks standing upright now and is quite happy. I can't imagine having pain every morning and THEN going to work. But because prior to coming here, he had no hope, that's what he was doing. Thankfully, somebody told him about us and changed his life. Nobody is destined or designed to go through life like that.  He was in that situation due to injuries collected along his 35 years on the planet.  It wasn’t any one thing. And, that he really didn't know there was help.

That’s just like everyone though. I think people think it's normal to have these kinds of problems or migraines or numbness every day. I take images of people’s spines every day.  And every day I show people the results with evidence of trauma from 10, 20, 40 years ago.   People’s reaction to seeing this is frequently “But, I’ve never been in an accident.  How could this be?”

Well, I don’t know how it is that people don’t remember the injuries, but the images are the images. They show the history.  The “fossil record” if you will. People are often surprised and disappointed to learn they have spine injuries from years earlier.  I’ve never seen a spine that has been in use for 5 or 6 decades that doesn’t show some sign of injury.  In fact, I've been doing this 33 years now and those injuries on that neck Xay above? I'm seeing those in teenagers now.

The process here is very simple.  We normalize the nervous system so your body can “talk” to itself again.  It doesn’t matter if it’s low back pain or headaches.  It’s not normal and no amount of Ibuprofen makes it “my normal headaches”.

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We love to help people with this and it surprises me how few know about the nervous system as the cause of health problems.  Please share with everyone you know who is dealing with health issues. It doesn’t matter if it’s low back pain or repeated miscarriages. To be healthy requires nerves free of interference.  That requires the spine to be lined up correctly. 

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Yours in Health,

Dr. Barrett