TheBadBackGuy.net The Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation recently reported, and John’s Hopkins Medical Center concurred, that a supervised program of exercise, particularly for chronic lower back pain sufferers who had experienced chronic lower back pain for 3 months or more, and especially as part of a total program, received greater back pain relief, faster, than a group who just received exercise advice, without a supervised, long-term, and lasting exercise program to follow …

TheBadBackGuy.net Imagine it is 3 and you have 45 minutes before your next pain meds forneck pain, back pain or sciatica! Now imagine you are able to go for a walk with your dog instead! At the end of June I started a 30 day challenge to overcome my neck pain, back pain, and sciatica, to finally get real and lasting pain relief. Well, this morning, on my usual midnight walk with TuffGuy, I was struck by the fact that I was just minutes away from the time for my usual pain medication dosage …

TheBadBackGuy.net There are 2 types of lower back pain, mechanical back pain and compressive pain. The 2 conditions may be interrelated and are often present in the same low back pain patient. Mechanical back pain also includes degenerative, traumatic, and stress-related injuries to the spines facet joints, discs, ligaments and muscles. Compressive back pain is pain associated with nerve root involvement, particularly pressure and irritation from bulging or herniated (ruptured) discs. The …

TheBadBackGuy.net Everyone has their Mt. Everest, everyone! My Everest is a hill at the entrance to the Rocky River Reservation, part of the Metroparks system that wraps around the periphery of Cleveland. A little while ago I did a video at night, mainly because that is usually when I walk and also because I didn’t want to be seen going up that hill in the shape I was in! Well, I made it…but just barely. So, today’s climb was a test to see just how far I have come during The 30 Day Walk …

TheBadBackGuy.net Imagine beginning a 30 day program for the relief of neck pain, back pain, and sciatica and having it turn into a life-changing event! Imagine now you can do the very same thing for yourself, just one step at a time. It is not a sales pitch, it is a reality and I have shown you how, step by step, you too can have lasting neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief. Join me at http and if you are ready to take the first step go to TheBadBackGuy link above! Professor John PJ …

Take a very fresh red onion and pull off all the “flaky” outside dry skin to leave you with a shiny smooth red surface.

Now, slice off the top of the onion [ slice off quite a bit ] so that the top is flat.

Now, do the same thing to the bottom of the onion.

You want to be left with a fairly “flat” onion.

Now, carefully scoop out the centre of the onion. Scoop out a circular chunk.

You should now be left with a hollow onion, flat at the top and bottom, and with a hole in the middle.

This is similar to the ANNULUS FIBROSIS.

In reality, you wouldn’t be able to see the hole like this, as there would be some layers of the “onion” on the top and bottom.

We had to cut the top and bottom off so that you could see the hole.

The NUCLEUS PULPOSUS sits in this hole.

Now take the onion and feel it with your fingers.

If the onion is nice and moist, you should be able to bend the rings of the onion a little.

Do you feel that it has some flexibility in it ?

This is how a healthy disk should be. The rings should be able to flex as the NUCLEUS PULPOSUS pushes against it.

Why is the NUCLEUS PULPOSUS squeezing against it ? Because it is reacting to forces applied to it [ e.g. you are lifting a box, or bending over to pick something up ].

Now, leave the onion for about two weeks or so in a very dry area, and come back and look at the onion.

Feel the onion again. Try to bend the rings.

What happens ? The rings are not as flexible as before, in fact if it has dried out enough, the rings can break and tear.

This can happen with a disk and is called a disk tear.

Basically the mechanical properties [ flexibility and strength etc ] of the disk have changed [ become worse ].

Why ? because fluid [ mainly water ] has escaped from the disk.

Now, in our bodies, major temperature changes are rare, so what can cause the disk to loose water ?

The answer is pressure.

But I have said previously that our backs are designed to withstand large amounts of pressure.

That is true, but only with a back that still has the shape that God intended it to be.

So what could cause it to change shape ?

I’ll be answering that question and many others soon

It is extremely important, and is the basis of why I think and will prove that muscular imbalances/ sacro-iliac joint dysfunctions are the ROOT cause of the vast majority of sciatic back pain.

TheBadBackGuy.net Stress and neck pain, back pain, and sciatica are inextricably linked. One of the best ways to eliminate neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica and stress is by exercising. There is a powerful link between stress and pain, stress can make real pain much worse and exercise can alleviate neck, back, and sciatic nerve pain.

TheBadBackGuy.net Imagine what it was like a little over 2 months ago! Remember the shape I wasn’t in? Remember the neck pain, back pain, and sciatica? I do! Now? I am jogging! Made possible with a first step, followed by another. Join me as we stop neck pain, back pain, and sciatic nerve pain once and for all! For a free book on back pain and how to deal with it, go to http Or just get started with the former, the link above!

thebadbackguy.net I am going to tell you how I got to sleep at night when nothing else would work and how when on massive amounts of pain medication the only strategies that worked are the ones I am going to share. My http combined with the resource above not only work they will give you back a back pain and sciatica free life!

TheBadBackGuy.net Success in any workout program, particularly a self-administered program for the relief of neck pain, back pain and sciatica is often dependent on an accountability partner, a workout partner. You know who my work out partner is by now, it’s TuffGuy! It isn’t important who your partner is, just having one, someone of “some guy” who will let you know when it’s time to work out, when it’s time to take the next step in your program! Try the free book “The 7 Day Back Pain Cure …