Difference between genital/medical issues & just muscles

In this post based on experience, I wanted to share the difference between a medical problem you could have with your genitals or that it might just be muscles. Luckily, I've experienced my hip muscles hurting, which comfised me with genital pain or testicle pain. There can be correlation. If you're feeling genital pain and you're dealing out, just know the symptoms before you call your doctor, it could be minor or it could be fatal. Here are some genital problems I've read along with symptoms men get. These source back to WebMd, MayoClinic, or you can look up articles on gov't health sites. The tips on muscles is from my knowledge.. The medical problems I lost below mostly consist of similar symptoms. 

Stds, urinary tract infection, anything urinary, bacteria related, urethra, etc:

Blood will be in your urine, experienced pain while urinating or ejaculating, testicle swelling, bad discusting discharge, etc. 

Prostate inflammation or prostatitis: 

Swollen prostate, painful urination or ejaculation, the urethra and/or prostate will have bacteria backed up into those parts. The bladder sits on the prostate. Also keep in mind that anal sex can cause a man's prostate to go bad for those who do that. My guess is the bacteria still coming from the anal, not a smart thing to do! 

Testicle torsion: 

One of your testicles will be higher than the other and the spermatic cord will get twisted, cutting off circulation. They could turn blue, this can be fatal. Must seek attention if it's too much to bear. Could ruin fertility. 

Just muscles: 

Now all those problems listed above will cause more pain than muscles will. So if it's muscles, this include hip flexor muscles like the iliacus that's in the iliac fossa but definitely the inguinal ligament on either side. It stretches down the pelvis and into each ball sac. Which was my issue. It pulled on the left testicle and caused strain. My testicles could have been strained in general too. Or very well be a inguinal hernia. Part of the intestines would poke out the abdomen though.  When you're not used to strenuous work or activity or outdoor work, this happens. Bending over can also flex the ligament and the hip muscles, hence "flexors." Any hip action or even sit ups! Anything to flex the ligament or flexors. It can even be related to the adductors such as the adductor brevis or pectineus. The brevis is perfectly angled toward the pubic symphysis. So you can have pubic pain. The cases are more in soccer players & such though. 

Treatments for the inguinal ligament/muscles. Using a frozen water bottle from the freezer. Lining it up with the ligament and the testicles. In your underwear, briefs, etc, to feel the cold more or on top of your underwear.  The ligament can't be anymore stretched like the adductors or hip flexors. Take pain meds like NSAIDS, etc.. Take it easy, don't bend over. If it's not as swollen, you can try doing all planes of motion. Kick the whole thigh/leg forward, backwards & side to side. To loosen up the hip. 

 

Kidney pain vs. Quadratus Lumborum stiffness

Alright here's a new post, this involves either the kidney or the QL muscle. The difference between kidney pain due to a stone and such or just muscle stiffness/spasm. If it's a QL (Quadratus lumborum) problem in the back, you will feel it in your lumbar vertebra, or at the floating ribs or down on the pelvis. Also tenderness in your butt. The dull ache will be closer to the vertebra besides on it. The kidneys do sit in far, you have to go through the tissues first. 

If it's a kidney problem then you will feel more inflammation in between the ribs or towards the outside more too.  Flank pain or labor pains. It'll still spasm in there deep as it's trying to exit maybe. In my case my kidney was still swollen, which was causing my tenderness in the back.. You'll pee out blood, which looks brown in your pee, it'll feel like a pinch, and when you pee it should go away. Things like that. Always ask questions on what it is! Look at these pictures and decipher the difference. I've had the kidney stone pain now so I can tell the difference. If it's a dull ache or stiffness, it's the QL and soft tissues. The kidney causes labor pains in the sides or down your groin rather than stiffness or achiness.. 

The muscle treatments can't be a moist heating pad, massage & stretching over to the side or on a ball. Kidney treatments are accordingly with your doctor. Avoid Apple juice, cranberry, orange or grape juice, anything acidic. Drink water, lemonade or anything alkaline. Maybe berry juice.. Avoid excess animal & dairy protein. Moderation. Look up kidney flushes or buy some dandelion root. Becareful with meds being mixed. 

             Kidney stone pain areas

Plantar Faciitis & relief treatments

Lots of people out there experience plantar faciitis, apparently 10% of the people or 1 million people visit a doctor per year for plantar faciitis. What is it? It's heel pain, inflammation, either around the heel, any one section of the plantar side of the foot or the whole underneath foot. There are 4 layers of muscle fascia, and it all gets inflamed from being on your feet too long, the calves being too tight and walking on your toes, wearing heels too much or having your toes flexed in bed under your bed sheets. Below are pictures of the muscles of the foot that get inflamed or just tender. Besides the 4 layers of the foot being inflamed, the calf muscles could indeed be tight in the back. The gastrocs, soleus, plantaris & popliteus all attach to the Achilles' tendon, which commects to the heel. These will pull on the muscles underneath. Also the flexor hallucus longus goes under the foot to the big toe & flexor digitorim longus goes to the other toes underneath. Between the under fascia, the calf muscles, which attach to the Achilles, and the flexor muscles, it all can cause the pain. 

     

(3 Layers of the muscles not including the 4th layer) 

4th Layer (Plantar interossei are the same, just underneath the foot). The dorsal interossei on top abduct the toes out, while the plantar interossei here adducts them back in. 

Flexor Hallucus longus and digitorum longus 

(Natural treatments) 

• If it's inflamed, ice a water bottle in the freezer, take it out and roll it under your foot for 15 - 20 minutes just like icing any body part. 
• Roll a small golf ball under your foot where it hurts or a tennis ball, anything similar. Work your way up to the golf ball.
• Get a plantar faciitis treatment massage, however many treatments it takes. Take your thumb & start at the heel & run up towards toes with your other thumb staying at the heel as you stretch. Ultrasound could work. Buy a splint to wear or make a homemade one or tape up your foot to your ankle to prevent plantar flexion & toe flexion at night.
• Stretch your calves (gastrocnemius and soleus. Stretching your toes will also help because your plantar muscles run under the foot for the toes.

Stretches

Keep the leg straight to stretch the gastrocs, for the soleu, bend the knee

 

Stair stretching works better

Rotator cuff strains & shoulder impingement

According to statistics, health studies, any research u look at, Institute of health, my NASM books, rotator cuff injuries are happening way too often now. There's 40-65% reported shoulder impingement pain. General shoulder pain is experienced with 21% of the population. You could be working in construction or working some physical job and suddenly strain your rotator cuff muscles. If you're at a gym lifting too heavy like during bench pressing or shoulder pressing, etc, your rotator cuff has to stabilize your arm, your whole joint with all that weight. When u do fast movements, when u over stretch your elbow or shoulder too far during joint movements in those exercises u will strain the cuff! Doing overhead presses behind the neck & lat-pull-downs behind the neck over stretches the shoulders too far & puts strain on your delts, traps and rotator cuffs. 

If u strained your cuff, basic symptoms include: extreme pain throughout the shoulder & possibly down the arm, & can't raise arm up or move it at all.  There are 1st, 2nd or 3rd degree sprains or strains for any injury u get. 

Supraspinatis or shoulder impingement is when the supraspinatis muscle tendon is compressed under the acromion bone and the bursa sac isn't cushioning it. Bursa sacs are in most of our synovial joints that include ligaments & synovial fluid. These sacs are filled with fluid also, this is how it protects the tendon from rubbing over or under a bony projection. But when u feel extreme pain or rubbing, then there's some friction going on or wear & tear. These symptoms also include not being able to raise arm up overhead, very little movement. Causes of this include overuse, reaching overhead too much and/or too many overhead shoulder presses. 

Here are pictures of the cuff and a supraspinatis impingement syndrome, the supraspinatis is the top muscle under the acromion: 

               

                Shoulder impingement picture from my NASM-Corrective Exercise training book

Go get checked out if u think you're having symptoms, rest and ice if u can. Try these stretches also, two of these are from me. 

U got to sit in a chair, hold your arm up at 90 degrees as in my picture, while a partner grips your wrist with their same hand (right to right), & they stabilize your elbow with their left hand, so this would be for the right arm.. U do the same for their left arm, (left hand to left wrist), then your partner or whoever is helping, use their opposite hand to the victim's elbow..  U got to push that wrist backwards past the victim's waist bringing the elbow forward. 

This pic below u can use a wall, it's almost the same, u reach your hand behind your back, use your opposite hand to hold it in place, again, bring elbow forward. U can twist your torso a bit to pull elbow forward more or lean back.  Both of these will stretch the cuff or supraspinatis if they are tight, pulling on your shoulder. U will feel a good stretch. Hold each stretch for 30 sec at least.. 

Multiple Sclerosis (A hope for you that doctors don't give you, nor psychotherapists, etc)

Multiple Sclerosis, a hope for you, natural approaches 

  Most of you should know what multiple sclerosis (MS) is, maybe you have it or you know someone with it.   It must be painful, depending on the symptoms, it can often sound worse than it is. I've never had it but I feel blessed to have my good health. I'm out to help everyone else and use my good health and talents as much as I can. If you don't know what it is, it's basically an autoimmune disorder or condition, where it attacks itself or your body attacks anything inside your body that looks like a foreign object to it.. Any autoimmune disorder can prevent you from having kids, especially healthy kids, or doing anything, and feeling good. 

With MS, though, your nervous system doesn't send correct nerve impulses from the brain, to your muscles and skin, and then back to the brain.. On a normal person, we're able to feel things and tell how much pressure is put on our skin, and we can respond to something and move/function but with someone who has MS, they don't have normal impulses. Their bodies react differently and is in pain.. Over time this can get worse and worse, and you move less.. What also happens with the nerves, is that the myelin sheath that covers the axon on a neuron, deteriorates. This is damaging to the neurons because there's no protection and the neurons can't function. Here's a diagram below to view how this looks:

This whole structure is a neuron, we got millions or billions of these, and what we're born with is how many we got.The myelin sheath is the yellow looking things that cover and insulate the axon (the blue tube in this example). The CNS and PNS produce the myelin sheaths. So in MS patients, those systems may not produce or reproduce anymore myelin sheaths, therefore, not helping with impulses.. These myelin sheaths help speed up nerve impulses through that axon tube in each neuron. The impulses are just chemical messages from our brain to make us move and feel things accordingly. When you have MS, those impulses are slower, so then your muscles aren't functioning fast enough or efficient enough. You can always research picture of the nervous system, with each system.. This all looks healthy, but with MS, the sheath deteriorates. 

If you need any references, just go on Mayoclinic.com or WebMd.com, or any research page. 

I truly believe that massage therapy can help stimulate the nervous system and help make it function better, which will control your muscles and responses better.. It then may help ease the pain.. Also try stretching your legs, hips and back, etc. or see if you can still do yoga. Keep your body moving still because if you just sit, the MS will just keep getting worse! Try that and research some herbs that can help your immune system and nervous system, starting with every B vitamin you can find! Doctors sometimes don't give you hope for this. They may say there's nothing you can do, so go sit and do nothing. Don't quote me, I'm not saying all of them are bad guys, but the bad ones will tell you to do nothing and don't take herbs. Same goes for any health condition. Also remember that for every square inch that you slouch or lean forward, etc with bad posture, it's 33.5 lb on your back. It could be painful with a condition like this on top of bad posture..

Try some of these supplements to help build up those myelin sheeths.

 

Low back pain, the truth that they don't tell you!

Low back pain (the truth)

We are a flexed society, everytime we sit or stand up/walk around, we tend to flex our bodies forward, when we should be standing up & sitting up straighter! When people are working their Abs, they also flexing their hips either from raising them up, bringing them to the chest during bicycle kicks or being prone and sliding the knees up to the chest on a Ab glider type machine. For years as you went to the chiropractor or orthepedist, or someonem, you were told that you needed surgery or an adjustment, etc. based on your x-rays or how the doctor felt about your back issues. Well with muscles aside, all they think about is the money they can make from giving you a surgery, their magical treaent and medications to correct your back pain. They see that you got bulging discs or herniated discs, or perhaps you have calcium deposits building up on the vertebrae or something. They give you a reason why they need to continue seeing you or continue their plans to treat you. BUT they never tell you that your muscles could be too tight and they're pulling on your bones, pulling on your spine or pulling your pelvis forward, and causing you to lean forward or side to side; things like that. They make it a bigger deal than it really is!

All you need to do is have your posture evaluated by someone such as a corrective exercise specialist and also by doing some exercises to see how you move. Then the corrective exercise specialist like myself, can then create a program to help you stretch and work out those tight muscles to correct your posture, which will correct your pain. Massage therapist should be able to evaluate your posture also, the ones who incorporate stretching and can identify more than one muscle group that's causing you pain. Personal trainers and massage therapist can sometimes dictate each other, but I became both a trainer/exercise specialist and a massage therapist. We are a flexed society, and it causes us all pain, unless we get smart and have better habits!

Causes for low back pain

Deep Longitudinal Subsystem of the body. When you walk, the force from the ground with each step, shoots up through these muscles and up your erector spinae muscles. When on your feet too long, these muscles overuse and fatigue. Then comes the pain!

Posterior Oblique System. If the lats are tight and the gluteus maximus is weak, it causes lumbar pain. Both muscle groups attach to the center part of your lumbar (thoracolumbar fasciae/aponeurosis), plus the iliac crest of the ilium bone, and sacrum bone. Everytime you walk, before each step, the lats and gluteus maximus load up with energy, then when you take each step, it causes a force, back in 4th on the sacrum bone or sacroiliac joint (sacrum/ilium). Bending over and picking things up or sitting for long periods will wear out these muscles, plus the erector spinae. You need the iliac crest and sacrum pressed on during a massage. Plus do the stretches @ the bottom of this blog.  

• Sitting too long at a desk or anytime you sit in front of the TV, etc. causeing an arch in your back
• Doing hip motions during abdomenal exercises. Leg raises, bicycle kicks and Ab roller type stuff. All those tighten up the hip flexor muscles more
• Having tight quadratus lumborum muscles, hipflexors (iliopsoas, rectus femoris, which both cause you to pull you in a bent-forward position, pectineus, adductor longus, brevis and magnus). If you're bent forward, it'll activate the hamstrings more, they'll compensate for it, then you'll pull your hamstrings.
• Tight latissimus dorsi muscles, pulling your shoulders forward, which prevent from you holding your back up straight as well as your body. The lats originate off the T7-L5 vertebrae, plus the iliac crest of the ilium bone, thoracolumbar fasciae, and sacrum. So it pulls on the low back, the fasciae and iliac crest, which is why it's tight.
• Quadratus lumborum is tight and also your erector spinae group muscles could be weak or be tight if you have a lumbar curve from overusing it throughout the day
• Tight (gluteus maximus) mostly because it pushes your iliac up or pushes on your iliac crest & creates tension in the low back fascia.. The thigh muscles will compensate for your back. Your gluteus maximus  attaches from the iliac crest, thoracolumbo fascia, sacrum, and coccyx, and then inserts onto the gluteal tuberosity on each femur. 
• Weak core muscles. The muscle in on your vertebrae and muscles that connect your pelvis to your vertebrae. Local and global muscles that break your posture. 
• Also the thoracolumbar fascia or aponeurosis in the small of your back will be tender and tight possibly because of the butt being tense.

Tight muscles in an area will eventually break away from each other (fibers snap), then muscles try to grow back to each other and form soft tissue or scar tissue in that area. 

Treatments and Prevention/Corrections

Keep in mind that it's 33.5 lb of pressure per sq inch put on you.. 

So if you lean forward 4 inches, 33.5 lb x 4 in =  134 lb of pressure on you, not to mention on your neck also... It doesn't matter what your posture is.. Besides any surgeries and medications, try to stretch out those tight muscles listed above and strengthen the weak muscles also listed above. Find exercises to help strengthen the weak muscles or have a good trainer show you. Get a massage on those tight muscles and also stretch them. Massage the glutes! The iliac crest will be tight around the back along with the sacroiliac joint. It may need pushed on and you need to do back stretches for the back muscles. You should condition your body a little bit before doing heavy work outside or heavy lifting at your job. With a weak back, it'll become overused and hurt, then your legs will take over. When you pick something up off the floor, it pulls on your lower back and your butt, and also your hamstrings as you stand back up. Try doing deadlift exercises, do back extensions on a ball or machine too.. Do planks and proper Ab crunches on a ball to strengthen your core. Also do back extensions to strengthen your erector spinae muscles if it's weak.

Avoid any Ab workout involving hip movement, such as bicycle kicks, leg raises while lying prone or on  roman chair, and any kind of Ab rolling on a machine where you roll your legs up into your chest almost. Any hip movement like that will work your hips, once your Abs have tired out. The hip flexors and all them hip muscles will start being worked. Having those tight, will pull you forward into the anterior pelvic tilt and will cause hip pain and/or back pain! Avoid sit ups too as it puts strain on your back and works your hip flexors once again.

In some cases you or someone may have that posterior pelvic tilt as in the picture above, for that, your hip flexors as I listed above are weak instead, and then the rectus abdominus is too tight along with the buttocks (glueteus maximus) and hamstrings.

Below are some stretches and exercises  Perform 1-2 sets and hold stretches for 30 sec. Elderly ppl hold for 60 seconds.  

Lat stretch on a ball. You can stretch both arms on the ball too. Stretch the arms out much as you can. You can also lean your body over the ball from the side, and reach up and over.

 Use a chair or a kitchen counter top, etc.

Outer hip stretch for your gluteus medius/minimis, and for your back

Piriformis stretch

  

With this piriformis stretch the girl is doing, try having someone stretch you out with that instead. You'll benefit from it better. They stay in front of your body and pull push your knee toward you and pull your ankle away from you carefully. Have them pull from your ankle, not the foot bones.. This stretch is good for sciatic nerve pain, because the pirformis muscle wraps over the nerve and pinch it when it gets tight.

Hip flexor stretch, lean forward more if you can, keeping knee at 90 degrees still

Side lying quad and hip flexor stretch. Also standing quad stretch. Stretch the hip back more in order to stretch the hip flexors. Have someone help pull your leg back if you need it. 

 

Hip flexor stretch on a table, massage table or athletic table. Sit on the very edge of the table and let one leg hang down and have someone push on it while pushing the bent leg back toward their chest.

 

(Hamstrings) 

            

You can use an athletic band also, get assistance or use a wall for better support 

      

      

 Floor bridges for your back and butt

Also having a rotated pelvis or one side is rotated inward/anteriorly, it'll cause low back strain across hour iliac. Such as these pictures. 

Watch Erik Dalton videos and you'll learn things that massage therapists can do on you if they so it hopefully. 

Taking wild Alaskan Salmon oil & Arnica pills will bring relief to your arthritis or any type of body inflammation.. The Salmon oil is @ SamsClub, and the Arnica pills are @ CVS, The Vitamin Shoppe or may have to order them. 

Running injuries/pain, knee or hip pain or feet.

As a runner I know what it's like to have some leg strains, that's mostly what I've had, but the only thing I've sprained was my right ankle though. In this post here are big tips that'll help you runners out there, middle school, high school or up through college, or if your just a avid runner on your own. 

Patellafemural syndrome: dislocated or displaced patella. Pain/inflammation around and in the kee joint possibly. Due to one side of the quad muscles being developed over the other, or all the quads being weak. Just depends which side the patella shifts to, that will determine what side is weaker. It'll be the opposite side of where the knee shifts to.

                   Casues: running on an eneven surface or puttin too much stress on the knee and quad muscles. Stress during running and/or exercising.

                    Treatments/prevention: avoid activity until it feels better, ice if neccessary, run on an even surface. Strengthen all of your quad muscles, get a massage or use a self-myofascial release roller, to break up knots and soreness.


Patella tendinitis/tendinosis: this pain occurs down below the knee where you can feel your tibial tuberosity or a bump. One of the knee tendons below the knee flairs up and it's called Os-good slotters in runners. That bone is where the quad muscle tendons also attach to. Tendinosis is without the swelling of course.

                 Causes: too much stress on the knees and running in the same direction. Running on a hard surface and wearing bad shoes as always.

                  Treatments/prevention: ice, get new shoes, don't run in the same direction, reduce the stress on your knees and pick a better surface to run on. Get a massage around the knee area as well..

Foot pain, planter fasciitis: muscle pain underneath the arch, the mid foot area, but mostly the heel. If there's no swelling, it's tendonosis then. 

           

              Causes: running/walking on the balls of your feet with your heels raised up a lot (plantar flexion). Being on your feet a lot and possibly pronation of the feet and a high body mass index such as 25 - 29.99 (overweight), 30 - 34.99 (obese 1), 35 - 39.99 (obese 2), and 40 being obese 3 (the heaviest). 

                Treatments/prevention: take a waterbottle and freeze it in a whole day or over night. Then you can roll your injured foot on it for 15-20 min at a time. Stretch your calves. Try to avoid pain meds, but take only if needed. It'll eventually heal if you keep working with it. To prevent planter fasciitis, don't walk or run on your toes so much. Sprinters will only run for a moment on their toes like I did. Stretch the calves and strengthen your dorsiflexors (anterior tibialis, extensor hollucis longus & extensor hollucis brevis). Then you'll have normal ankle flexion/extension. Gel inserts orthotics. Better shoes. Get a massage.

Achilles Tendonitis: any pain in the Achilles tendon, the tendon that helps connect your gastrocs and soleus muscles to the calcaneus heel bone. Tendonosis is without the swelling, just pain. 

                 Causes: jumping a lot and improper landing, repeated stress from running or jumping, especially if your heels are raised, (plantar flexion). You have no good dorsiflexion.  Running up stairs and on your heels more. 

                  Treatment/prevention: stretch the calves, ice if you have to. Strengthen your tibialis anterior and extensor hollucis longus & brevis, and walk/run heel to toe properly. Better or new shoes that fit your feet better. Get a massage or use a foam roller.

Medial tibial stress syndrome or shin-splints: pain/inflammation in the front of the shin or behind the tibia bone. Due from the tibialis anterior or posterior tibialis. The tendon behind the bone or in front and alng the shin bone is inflamed. It can be deep pain in the whole front of the leg or just the shin. 

                      Causes: pronation of the feet, flat feet, repeated stress, bad worn out shoes and type of running surface.

                          Treatment/prevention: freeze a cup of ice and use it to ice up n down your shins, orthotics, arch inserts, build up your arches if you have flat feet, strengthen your medial gastocnemius muscles and tibialis anteriors, and then stretch your poroneals, lateral gastrocnemius muscles and soleus muscles. Work out those imbalances. Better or new shoes that fit your feet tighter. Get a massage or use a foam roller. 

IT-Band Syndrome: this can be common in runners, even I had this. It's when you're experiencing inflammation pain up and down the side of your thigh or at the corner of your knee where the it-band connects around it. Or maybe tenderness in your glutes. 

                        Causes: repeated stress, running in the same direction over and over, like on the same leg or too much stress on the thighs. Like if you run and then start doing leg exercises on the same day like did. Bad worn out shoes.

                                Treatment/prevention: newer/better shoes that fit your feet better, get orthotics, use a foam roller on the side of your thigh for the it-band or get a massage there, ice if its swollen, don't run in the same direction all the time.

If you have flat feet, u should still wear arch inserts to build your arches up! Flat feet or probated feet will cause knee pain because it rotates your knees inward.. Wear and tear on the knees will also occur. As well supination your feet outward. Lateral knee pain will occur. 

Injury Prevention, muscle imbalances and bad posture

THE PAIN IN THE BUTT THAT YOU HAVE, AND HOW YOU'RE WASTING MONEY ON CHIROPRACTORS!    Information by Adam.

Besides the thousands of people who are overweight or obese, including children; there's something else to think about: The pain and the bad posture that people have! Everyday, people are suffering and complaining of their back's hurting and getting stiff, or they're complaining about their knees, hips, or neck pain, or any joint that's aching on their bodies. Why? What's causing all of this? I'll tell you in a moment! Also flexibility is important! If your muscles are tight, you lose mobility. Joints are stiff because nothing's lubricated, you'll have more injuries at any age. Bad balance is also a factor. 

Millions of people are always going to their local chiropractor or a chiropractor who maybe a little more distant to them, and they're getting their backs cracked or adjusted, or treated. People think they're getting a good treatment done, but in some cases they're not! Plus not to mention, people have a popped disc or a herniated disc/s in their backs! And chiropractors won't tell you to stretch and correct your posture, which is causing pain in the first place! Whyyyyy the pain?

The answer is, that people are walking around with bad posture due to sitting for long periods of time, repetitive movements, postural stress, injury/trauma, improper exercise techniques or from working and doing tasks improperly. Tight muscles in certain areas, and the weak muscles in the other areas are causing bad posture! And then you'll have improper movement, then muscular and joint pain. Your body will go into the cumulative injury cycle. From trauma to inflammation, to muscle spasms to muscle knots, to altered neuromuscular control and then muscle imbalances again!  So then what do people do? They run to a chiropractor because they're having back pain or hip pain, etc, or they pulled their back. Going to the chiropractor isn't the fix, BUT it's YOU who can fix this problem! You pop or herniate your disks because of your pelvis being lopsided, which provokes scoliosis, an S or a C in your back, either permanently or temporary. People also have muscle knots that need to be worked out. I show a picture on here to show normal tissue & tissue with knots. Knots block blood flow and nutrients. I believe pain can develop from that also. Muscles are starved from oxygen & nutrients carried in the blood. Then muscles can't function, and nor do you have energy. Our brain also feeds off glucose from carbs. to function. 

Change the way you sit, change the way you lift things at work or at home, change the way you walk around. Correct your posture: Keep your head up, keep your back straight most of the time when you sit and walk, keep your feet straight when you walk and start stretching your muscles more often each day!  You got to increase flexibility (range of motion + extensibility) and extensibility (your muscles being able to stretch).

Order one of these chairs from Isokineticsinc.com, and sit on it at your office or ay home, and it'll help your posture and your spine from injuring ever again!
               
     

            

BACK PAIN CAUSES

• The buttocks or gluteus maximus is weak, or your butt is tight & pushing up on your iliac crest. And your latissimis dorsi muscles get mostly tight, so there's a tug-of-war going on. The glutes need massaged & stretched, and possibly the latissus dorsi. Every time you sit down or walk around, everything you do, your butt will weaken from office work. So then other muscles compensate like your hips, your quadratus lumborum or love handle areas, your thighs and even your upper back (lats). 
• Your latissimus dorsi muscles and your butt muscles work together (synergistic-ally), to support your low back, they create strength. But when they're imbalanced, you get back pain. 
• Hip flexors are tight pulling you forward in a bent position. Therefore, hamstrings and butt could be weak. The lats are also a factor in the anterior pelvic tilt with your arms falling forward.
• Long periods of sitting also makes your hamstrings and your hip flexor muscles (in front of your body above the quad muscles) tighter. So when those are tighter, it creates pain. It pulls on your back, and spine.  
• If you have an anterior pelvic tilt, that means your butt pops out, or sticks out in the back, and your back (spine) is curved. This causes back pain and stress because all the muscles in your vertebrae are being flexed. Your hip flexors will get tight and pull you forward into that tilt. Your butt could remain normal though unless it's weak to pull you up, or like in a excess forward lean (bent over), and hamstrings will be weak also because you can't erect yourself up. The gluteus maximus is the most muscle that erects you up or extends your hips as you walk up stairs. That's how you herniate or pop a disc. Chiropractors don't tell you that. When the hip flexors are right it's hard for a person to stand up erect, those front hip flexors need stretched to improve posture! 

• Or you have a posterior pelvic tilt where your butt sinks in, and your hips tilt forward. And your abs are tight in the front. Again, this causes spinal pain and popped discs. The chiropractor won't tell you! 

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HIP AND KNEE PAIN 

• A weak walking gait, like with your feet can cause hip and knee pain. Especially when you run! If your feet turn in, which may cause grinding on the inside of your knees, and a MCL tear. Or your feet turn out, and will cause grinding on the lateral part of the knees and/or tear the LCL. Your knees won't be lined up with the rest of your body. Your body is like a kinetic chain with the muscle-tendon unit, bone-ligament unit, and the stress goes up the legs and through the spine from your feet.  All that causes an increased Q-angle. Nothing's lined up. 
• When your inner thighs are tight, and outter glutes are weak, your knees will buckle inward (knock-kneed). So again, when nothing's lined up, your back will hurt, or your hips/knees. The fact that your knees buckle in, is why you have knee pain! 
• If your knees supinate out, or move outward when you walk, when you run and when you sit down or whatever, that will cause the hip or knee pain.  
• Think of a leverage system, when your gluteus maximus is tight, it makes it harder on the hip flexors in the front of the thighs or other muscles to work, those tight muscles need stretched in order to complete a movement like hip flexion.. Think of trying to flex your elbow when your triceps are tight.. 

Treatments for back pain and hip/knee pain (lower cross syndrome)

Keep in mind for everything you do, there's 33.5 lb of pressure per sq inch, put on your body and neck. So if you lean forward or back, etc. 4 in, then take 33.5 lb x 4 in = 134 lb of pressure on your body. No wonder people have pain!

Stretch your calves and strengthen the shin muscles to help your feet be straighter. Stretch your inner thighs, or in your case, you may have to strengthen your inner-thighs if your knees are supinating outward. Strengthen your buttocks too, to prevent back pain and do lat pulldowns or use toning bands to strengthen the lat muscles of the back. Do bridges, sing your pelvis into the floor or ground. You can do 2-3 sets of 12-20 reps or do isometric holds of 30 sec to 1 min, per set. 

Upper body and neck pain

If your rhomboids and trapezium muscles are weak, and your upper trapezius muscles are tight along with the SCM & other neck flexor muscles, your shoulders will elevate when you lift things. SO your neck muscles and your upper traps will get tight and hurt. So you need to strengthen the back muscles and stretch the neck as it says down below.  Your head could be shifted to the left or right, or rotated. So one group of muscles are tight while the other are lengthened/weakened. One example is the semispinalis muscle originates from the transverse process to spinous process, in the head, it just inserts to the occiput. Therefore, it causes a contra lateral rotation.. So if you can't turn your head to the left, the right semispinalis is tight. If you can't slant your head down to the left, the splenius capitus muscle is one of the muscles that are tight. Depends what side of the neck, so think of the muscles. 

Treatment for neck pain and upper back pain (upper cross syndrome)

Stretch the chest and front of the shoulders. And do rows with dumbbells or toning bands or a cable machine. You can use a fitness ball and lie on it and/or sit on the ball and do your rows and lat pulldowns, etc. You got to train your posterior shoulders and back muscles (rhomboids and middle and lower traps). Stretch your neck muscles by turning your head to one side and the other, and aim it downward and at an angle to stretch the muscles on the left side or the right, which ever ones are tighter.

There are certain muscles to be stretched, while other muscles are worked. If I was training you, I would evaluate you and design a specific regimen for you. I can't tell you everything in here as it's too difficult... 

Wild cold Alaskan Salmon oil capsules help with any joint pain or inflammation in the body. Also look for Arnica pills at the Vitamin Shoppe, GNC or any of your local market stores, Organic stores. There are different kinds to look for. These are strong & will take away the symptoms muscle pain, stiffness & joint pain. Arnica is of the plant, in the Sunflower family.