221: Ouch, My Back Hurts
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
It's estimated that 80% of the population will suffer from back pain at some point in their life—and most people are left frustrated and confused about how to actually heal. Should you take medications? Get physical therapy? See a chiropractor?
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet "Spondy" researcher, Justin Adkins. Spondylolisthesis is a serious spinal injury where a vertebra shifts forward causing pain, inflammation, and often radiating nerve problems. While there is no one-size-fits-all cure for Spondy or any other back pain problem, there is a framework for healing that can really help.
JUSTIN ADKINS
Justin is a certified strength and conditioning coach through the NSCA. He is also certified by USA Weightlifting and the Functional Movement Screen. He has trained and helped countless athletes from the youth to the professional level achieve their performance goals and return from various injuries. Like the tens of thousands of people each year, Justin was also diagnosed with Spondylolisthesis as a teenager.
Justin became his own first client to deal with his own condition, and now helps thousands of people through his website: www.Spondyinfo.com
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Listen & Learn:
- Why spondylolysis is often a precursor spondylolisthesis
- How spondy is an anterior movement of a vertebra
- Why doctors are often pain-removal focused (whereas you might be full-function focused)
- Why you need to commit to a daily healing practice, even if just for 10-15 minutes
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Acid Alkaline - friend or foe?
Links & References from the Show:
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| 0:00.0 | Today's Yoga Talk Show is brought to you by the Yoga Trap Pease. The Yoga Trapease is our best-selling yoga inversion sling. It's now in 81 different countries all around the world. We can barely keep them in stock. It's so popular. We teach |
| 0:14.2 | yoga trapeze classes, group classes in all three of my studios and we also have |
| 0:18.7 | teacher training courses. But today I just wanted to tell you about the trapeze |
| 0:21.9 | specifically. |
| 0:23.0 | The most popular thing that people do on the trapeze is hang upside down for three, five, seven minutes a day to get traction on their spine. |
| 0:30.0 | And traction is when you allow gravity to naturally create more space |
| 0:35.6 | between your vertebrae. When you wake up in the morning most people know that |
| 0:39.3 | you're a little bit taller. Some people as much as a quarter of an inch taller and that's because of the |
| 0:44.1 | extra space created between your vertebrae and inverting during the day can kind of |
| 0:48.8 | replicate that morning length that space between your vertebrae and for people with minor back issues |
| 0:54.8 | with nagging lingering back pain, sometimes just that can be enough to give them relief and |
| 1:00.0 | really take a load off, literally and metaphorically. To learn more, check out Yoga Trapeze.com. I know a lot of you already |
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| 1:15.2 | mounts, we have DVDs and a couple of other interesting things as well. So check |
| 1:19.4 | out yoga trapeas.com and thanks so much for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 1:25.0 | We've just started holding yoga trapeze teacher training courses here in |
| 1:31.0 | Barcelona so the topic of the day every day has been back pain, back care, |
| 1:37.5 | back injuries and because of that I've been talking to a lot of new and |
| 1:41.1 | different people about different treatment healing protocols |
| 1:44.4 | different things both medical non-medical physical therapy personal training and |
| 1:50.4 | everything in between I messed up my back a number of different times but the worst time was about eight years ago and I couldn't get out of bed and it was multi-factorial. It was repetitive stress, it was |
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