Dooley Noted: 1/20/15
I bet you wonder what went wrong the moment your back went out.
You may have been picking up something heavy.
You might have been tying your shoes.
Or making your bed.
Or lifting your baby.
Or doing laundry.
I’ve heard them all.
But the event during which your back went out was only the last straw.
It was a long time coming.
You flexed, extended, rotated, and explored life through a folcrum.
You didn’t share the load across the hips, feet, midback, and arms.
And when you bend primarily at one spot, your tendency will be to break at it.
Your back did, in fact, go out. It moved so much in an unbalanced fashion that it become unstable.
It quit on you, firing up pain receptors and locking down the muscles around that segment.
It was preventing you from moving at that improper folcrum.
Don’t curse him. He’s the good guy.
So, be careful stretching out that tightness. Do that, and your back will check out again.
Inject it with epidurals and steroids, if you will.
Massage it and stretch it, if you will.
But if you keep moving at that same folcrum, your back will continue to go out on you for the rest of your life.
Instead, consider hiring a movement specialist to help you learn to share the load.
You may have issues away fri. The back that encourage the back to be the folcrum.
Get assessed. Get corrected.
Your back doesn’t have to keep going out. Learn to share the load.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley