Low Back Pain

This is another subject I know well from my own personal experience, as well as the experience of my private practice clients over the last 7 years.

I am a runner, and as such tend to have bouts of low back pain and spasm when I am in training. This is due to my hip flexors and abdominals being weaker than they should be to sustain distance running. I work and work at strengthening these muscles, and though it reduces the pain and spasm, it never seems to be enough. Maybe we really weren't designed to run miles after miles of pavement. All my life, I have only experienced full relief after seeing my own massage therapist for some nice deep massage work on my QL (low back) and Psoas (anterior deep hip flexor).

I see the same issues in a lot of my athlete clients, particularly distance runners. Each and every one of them gets relief through massage, thought the more they train, the more often they need me to work it out.

Another thing that seems to help is having a Sleep Number bed. Being able to adjust the firmness of my bed really helps when my back aches. I need it much firmer when I am in training or my back spasms in the night.