Back Pain Relief

Understanding how chronic back pain relief works is what sets Olea therapists apart from other massage places. You have been to different doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, have spent money on creams but nothing helped? Before you decide to get an expensive and invasive treatment somewhere else, we invite you to book a session at Olea.

Chronic back pain can be caused by muscles that are tight and strong or by tight and weak. These muscles can be pushing on a nerve resulting pain spreading down the leg. As you see the key word is muscle, and who if not a massage therapist knows how to deal with this issue?

The trick is – the key to back pain relief does not lie within the tight back muscles alone and will most likely be found somewhere else. Your body is an amazing structure and all systems within connect in a certain way, like pieces of a puzzle. There are several ways to get you back pain relief in just several sessions.

Here are some key muscles that often cause chronic back pain.

Hamstrings – big muscles in the back of your legs can relieve back pain. Every time you bend your knees the hamstrings get short (contracted), it can be sitting behind the desk, driving, flying, sleeping with your knees up. You get the point. Because they are short, they are “pulling” on the bone they attach to, which is the sacrum (pelvis). This brings your body out of alignment. The sacrum has shifted but it can’t shift alone, there are back muscles attached to it, so it is “pulling” on those muscles, making them weak, causing you pain.

Another muscle that is connecting your sacrum to your lower ribs called quadratus lumborum can cause problems as well. When this muscle is tight you can feel your spine being “locked up” accompanied by spasms. Massage can relieve back pain by releasing this muscle. Friction and kneading will supply blood and oxygen will into the area; you will get flexibility and less back pain. That technique also helps if you have a herniated dist in your lumbar spine.

Psoas Major, a hip flexor muscle that is hard to reach, hard to massage, hard to stretch but is initial in providing back pain relief. Attached to the lumbar vertebrae and the femur (leg bone) psoas can rotate the pelvis and create lordosis. When this muscle is tight it will place strain on muscles controlling the knees and ankles and is very significant for good posture. The only way to reach it is through the belly and Olea therapists are among few manual therapists in Charlotte who are skilled to treat it.

Back Pain Relief

Here are some key muscles that often cause chronic back pain.

Treating lower back pain is our specialty. Our therapists can identify the problem in the first session.