Back Pain Self Help: Practical Solutions for Problem Backs
Are you getting sick of back pain? Have the treatments you've tried worked for a little while, but soon you're back to where you were?
Many people with back pain say, after a whole range of treatments, that they have to keep going back and back to the experts for help. This website helps you stop doing that. It gives you the necessary Self Help skills to stay out of trouble with your back.
Who Am I?
I'm Nick Mellor, an Alexander Technique teacher working on the edge of the Lake District in Cumbria, UK. I had chronic back pain for many years.
Why Have I Written a Website?
I found that treatment (physiotherapy, osteopathy) wasn't enough to clear up my back pain. The best repair work in the world doesn't stop you mistreating your back. I needed to learn how to move better too.
If the handbrake in your car keeps wearing out you re-align or replace the brake. If the brake wears out again, you might begin to wonder why ...you watch carefully for a day or two, and you discover that you keep leaving the handbrake slightly on when you drive away.
Back pain is not different. There are many ways you can "leave the handbrake on as you drive away" when using your back.
I'm a slow-poke at web design, and it'll take time for me to get going. You might be interested in my newsfeed, which will keep you up to date. (What is a newsfeed?)
Self Help: Recover Faster and Better
Back-pain-self-help.com aims to strengthen your confidence. You can help your own back, just as I did. Why not start today? You can start doing something positive and useful right now!
Having more confidence will help you decide which back care providers you trust. It will help you feel better. It will help you take charge of the situation with your back. It may even help you sort out your own back problems without expensive treatments.
Welcome!
I hope you find many things here to help you. Please let me know how you get on.
What's New on Back Pain Self Help
Latest changes and additions to the back-pain-self-help.com website.
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May Events
May Events: Times and dates of 'Back Saver' groups, one-to-one lessons and presentations by Nick Mellor. Learn how you sometimes cause your own back pain, and how you can stop causing it.
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Self Help Exercises
The gentle self help exercises on this website are to help you understand your back better. Here's how to use them.
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"All I Did Was Cough!"
"All I Did Was Cough!" Sometimes a simple cough or a sneeze is all it takes to start a big back problem.
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Stop Whingeing?
When you get your first twinge of back pain, should you just "stop whingeing and get on with it?"
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Creeping Backache
Your back never used to ache picking up a box of books. If pain is gradually increasing, it may be best to act now.
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Good Posture and Back Pain
Good posture is about much more than 'stand up straight and don't slouch!' Good posture makes moving a joy. If moving is a joy, you'll move more. Try the exercises or get some professional help with your posture.
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Back Exercise: Lying on the Floor
Lying down on the floor every day is a simple and effective back exercise. It is a way to take weight off your spine for a while and let it get back to its natural springiness
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Back Exercise: Walking
Walking as a Back Exercise. Simply walking can be an excellent tool for people with back pain. Here are some reasons, and ways to make your walking frequent and fun!
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Middle Back Pain
Middle Back Pain: The middle back is a weight-bearer and a wonderfully flexible part of the spine as well. It is often misused while lifting weights
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Back Pain in Pregnancy and Birth
Pregnant women's bones soften and their ligaments loosen during pregnancy. It's a preparation for birth. It's also a time when many women experience back pain.
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Lower Back Pain
Exercises and Other Resources for Lower Back Pain
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Deep Self Help: The Alexander Technique
Deep Self Help: Back Self Help is a really worthwhile, life-long project, but takes time to learn to do well. You can speed up and deepen your Self Help with the Alexander Technique.
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My Back Pain Story
My Back Pain Story: two lower-back accidents that led to repetitive strain injury. Treatment with physiotherapy and osteopathy, then learning self-help withe the Alexander Technique.
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Contact Nick Mellor
Contact details for Nick Mellor, author of back-pain-self-help.com
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What is Osteopathy?
A brief description of Osteopathy, with two experiences of Osteopathic treatment for back pain.
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Home Birth and Back Pain
Home Birth gives you choices you don't have in a hospital. Some of these choices can reduce the possibility of back pain and injury during labour and birth.
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