How Do I Get Rid of My Back Pain?

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Back pain. Wow. A lot of people get back pain, especially when they sleep. And it doesn't start there, it starts when you're awake. And let me explain, your body follows where your eyes go. So what that means is, is we in our modern day lifestyle tend to be on the phone all day long. We tend to be on computers, we tend to drive our cars. This is called Tech Neck. What ends up happening is because of our forward head posture, reinforced by our poor sleeping positions, it causes us to lose the cervical curve in our spine. And then what ends up happening is, is there's a muscle through your stomach called your psoas, major muscle. And your psoas goes into spasm because you've lost the cervical curve in your neck, causing a lower back rotation or causing your lower back to twist. So in order to start working on getting rid of your back pain, you need to change your mold. You need to start to improve the cervical curve in your neck. And you do that by changing your sleeping position. And you change your sleeping position by adopting what we call the neutral sleeping position. So what that is is that sleeping on your back with your legs down, with your legs straight and then your arms down by your side. And more importantly, it's how you use your pillow. You want to make sure that the pillow does not support your head and it's the pillow supports your neck. And then by lying on your back in either arching that neck over the pillow, you start to restore that cervical curve in your neck and you'll start to pull out that rotation in your lower back. So if you want to wake up with less back pain, then you want to make sure that you change the way that you sleep.

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