Steve Lockhart

Back Pain, Sciatica & The Muscles

This is evidenced by the fact that so many people need to take pain killers and anti inflammatory drugs every day for the pain they have as a result of muscle problems. It is clear that whatever is being done at present to fix muscle problems and treat chronic back pain and sciatica is not working very well.

There comes a point in time, during the day or a particular activity, when overworked muscles need to be rested and given time to recover. If they are not, they will begin to fatigue and tighten causing the other, still working muscles, to compensate for them in some way.

As you move a muscle through its range of movement it should continuously contract and relax or shorten and lengthen. The movement of the muscle acts as a pump to bring blood and lymph containing oxygen and nutrients such as glycogen into the working muscle and flush out waste products like carbon dioxide and lactic acid. The more weight being carried or force being exerted by the muscle the larger the supply of oxygen and nutrients needed and the more waste products there will be to take away.

These waste products are one of the main reasons you are encouraged to warm down well with gentle exercise after you finish your workout. The idea is to flush out your muscles and leave them with a fresh blood supply for recovery and ready to work again the next day. A massage is another way of having your muscles flushed out whereby the waste and toxins are put back into the bloodstream to be processed by the liver and converted into energy. That's why after a massage you can feel washed out for a while then later you feel loose and energised.

It is worth noting that caution is recommended when you are pushing through this point of fatigue because, although it helps to build up your up fitness level, you are more prone to injury when your muscles are tired. Tired tight muscles don't provide strong support for the joints making them prone to becoming unstable if put under a heavy or unbalanced load. That's why if you are training in that fatigue zone you are better to do it with controlled exercise rather than sports where your joints are under an unbalanced load, like basketball, touch football or tennis.

If you go too far past the point of fatigue during activity or exercise it's possible to damage the muscles to some degree and begin to set up long term problems that can set up imbalances, weakness and come back later as a chronic back pain or worse still sciatica.

In some areas of the body, such as the arm or leg, this can cause the tight muscle to trap or press on a nerve generating a local or referred pain such as sciatica in the back, golfers elbow or carpel tunnel syndrome in the hand.

When we develop a problem in our body the level or intensity of the pain we feel will vary from person to person. This is dependent on the strength and condition of the tissue, which in turn depends on things like lifestyle, diet, age, genetics and fitness level.

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