Ever had it — the dreaded back pain? Low-back pain, mid-back pain, upper back or/and neck pain? Ouch… it’s the worst.

I have a friend of mine who had such hor­ri­ble back pain that she could not do hardly any­thing any­more. And she was only 36 years old. Is that too young to be prac­ti­cally immobile?

She took lot of pain-killers but they aren’t designed to stop the pain from com­ing back, they’re only designed to reduce the pain from time to time.

She surfers lot and went to see doc­tor many times, and then she is tak­ing anti-inflammatories, which do work towards reduce her pain that caused by soft-tissue inflam­ma­tion, but they DON’T get rid of the tight­ness and sore­ness caused by her muscle-imbalances and dys­func­tions that cre­ated the inflam­ma­tion in the first place, well … some­times back pain like this is only treat­able with surgery.

Beside that, she also tried the usual treat­ments and tech­niques, like:

Chi­ro­prac­tors — but it did not work for her.

Rehab — work­ing with a phys­i­cal ther­a­pist. Noth­ing happened!!

About a year ago I intro­duced her to The Healthy Back Insti­tute and then things start to turn around.

I turn my friend to them is because another golf buddy of mine, who also got seri­ous back pain in Florida got treated by this insti­tute. Now all his back pain is gone and he can play golf again. He told me they pro­duce some really awe­some back pain solu­tion prod­ucts. That’s why the com­pany grew like crazy because the stuff they were pro­duc­ing “worked”.

Two weeks ago, my friend phoned me and told me that she is so happy with the solu­tions that Healthy­Back offers because it worked for her case (after took all those med­ica­tions). She’s 95% now and able to do just about any­thing she wants. I am really happy for her and glad to see her out of the pain life.

She also told me that the solu­tion is more than just treat­ing her back pain; it is the “last” solu­tion she needs.

We need back pain “pre­ven­tion” — espe­cially if you are over the age of 35. Myself, I do spe­cific exer­cises to keep my back strong.

One spe­cific thing I do is a vari­a­tion on a yoga stretch. It’s hard to explain in writ­ing, but I’ll try:

First, you spread your legs a bit wider than your shoul­ders. Then you turn your feet to a 90-degree angle with both toes pointed either toward your left side or your right side.

If you never do it before, this may feel odd at first, so be sure to brace your­self against a fixed object until you get the bal­anc­ing act down.

So your “body” is fac­ing for­ward but your “feet” are turned, point­ing either left or right. Try to get as close to a per­fect 90 degree angle as you can. The sides of your feet should be straight when you look down.

Then put your arms straight out to your sides once you get your balance.

Now, slowly bend to the site your toes are point­ing while slowly turn­ing your body toward that side, bend­ing down as if you were going to touch that toe. The trick is that your “other” food remains in the same place. Stretch com­fort­ably, then switch your feet and point them the other direc­tion. Your body is still fac­ing for­ward. Then repeat the stretch to the new direction.

Well, it sounds com­pli­cated. At the begin­ning is might be hard, but once you do it a few times it becomes sec­ond nature.

This is a really good exer­cise for back pain “pre­ven­tion”. Of course, there are many, many more other exer­cises you can do — both for pre­ven­tion and for cur­rent back and upper back/neck pain.

What I like you to do is go see what Healthy­Back has to offer. And unlike writ­ing, they can “show” you what to do for pain – both pre­ven­tion and cur­rent pain.

In fact, you can con­sider this is a “Must-Have” if you want to keep your back in line for years to come.

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