Bill DanielsOwner/trainer, Beyond Fitness online · Personal Trainer & Pain Science Expert Helping People Move Without Fear

The Speed Trick for Instant Back Pain Relief #Shorts

28 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short clinical vignette, the practitioner tests vestibular-based exercises on a patient who struggles to rise from a chair after a head impact. The patient is instructed to stare at a fixed point, place hands on hips, and perform vertical bouncing motions. Rapid bouncing quickly induces dizziness, indicating a negative response. Slowing the bounce alleviates the dizziness and yields a modest reduction in back pain during subsequent extension assessment, though pain remains. The clinician hypothesizes that the head impact may have affected the vestibular system on the impacted side, prompting further side‑specific vestibular evaluation.

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So what we decided to do was test out some vestibular exercises. I immediately went to thinking, okay, if he's having a hard time getting up and down off the— out of the chair, we need to work on some up and down movements. So what I did was I had him stare directly at a spot on the wall, put his hands right here on his hips, and just bounce like this. And after about 10 seconds, he started to feel a little bit dizzy. So we were immediately getting a negative response there because he was feeling worse than he was before we'd started. So, what we did instead was we slowed down the bouncing, just nice and slow. That started to make him feel better. What he found was then when he went into extension afterwards and reassessed himself, he was feeling a little bit better. There wasn't as much pain, but it was still there and it wasn't enough to really move the needle yet. So then I thought about, okay, when he hit his head on this side, was there something happening with the vestibular system on this side?