Steve Lockhart

Learn How Back Pain and Sciatica Originated

Tension that accumulates in muscles from many different lifestyle stress's will create muscle imbalances then compensations which will continue to build up and spread over time until they are removed. The older you get or the more pressure you put on your... Read >

How Back Pain or Sciatica Originates

In my experience, most chronic back pain or sciatica first occurs as either an acute episode or quite mysteriously. You wake up one day in pain or move a certain way and feel something give and end up with a pain that won't go away. The reality is you cou... Read >

Sciatica and Back Pain and How Stress Plays its Part

One of the biggest problems today is that people don't maintain their body at a level that will keep up with their chosen lifestyle and as a result their body begins to break down with injury and illness. Everything that causes stress to the body will bri... Read >

Back Pain and Sciatica – Why Massage Alone Doesn’t Work

Traditional Massage has the effect of relaxing the muscles and taking away the tension that has built up, mainly as compensations, around the painful area. It doesn't deal with the cause of that tension, normally muscle imbalances in various parts of the ... Read >

Sciatica and Back Pain – How A Short Leg is Involved

Most doctors and therapists explain this away with, "everyone has a short leg and it doesn't make any difference" but it does for a large percentage of people, especially when the discrepancy is quite noticeable, the person's body is weak or they have hyp... Read >

Sciatica And Back Pain – What Is The Real Cause

As a result of overuse, a trauma or strain, even bad posture, tension will build up in a muscle to the point where the circulation is impaired and eventually that muscle will weaken and in certain situations, fail causing the body to compensate and eventu... Read >

Back Pain, Sciatica and Muscle Maintenance

Most people would be surprised to know that muscles have a memory and they store the trauma of a painful physical injury, much like the mind does with a significant emotional trauma. Just like the mind the muscles require rehabilitation from these traumas... Read >

Chronic Back Pain – A Typical Scenario

The brain orchestrates, the nerve's fire and the muscles perform. The skeletal structure simply supports that performance and therefore any treatment to correct a back problem, regardless of how much the spine, discs and nerves are involved, should start ... Read >

Common Sciatica and Back Pain Solutions That Won’t Work

Pain starts as an irritation at the weakest point along a muscle (where it attaches) caused by muscle tightness, set up by imbalances in your body. You probably did something the day before to over extend the muscle and then during the night when your ... Read >

Back Pain and Sciatica - Ways to Determine If You Have a Short Leg

The first thing to do is loosen up your body as much as you can perhaps with some very slow, gentle stretches on the floor so that you get an accurate picture. Then lie on your back on the floor and have someone make sure you are lying straight. Get them ... Read >

Back Pain and Sciatica – Why Stretching is bad Advice

People who suffer from the worst pain and recurring injury problems caused by muscle imbalances are usually those who exercise the most but don't support that exercise with the right nutrition. Those who have hyper mobile joints which can be put out of... Read >

Back Pain From Muscle Imbalances

What I have discovered in practice is that there are usually only one or two main groups of muscles, setting up the imbalances that cause the joint to move or the pressure to build up in a muscle making the joint stiff or tight and painful to use. If ... Read >

Back Pain & Sciatica Triggers

When we move, especially doing vigorous exercise, we exert a force which should be carried evenly throughout our whole body. But as a result of even a minor imbalance it that force is distributed unevenly throughout our muscles causing compensations and t... Read >

Back Pain and Sciatica - Interesting Facts

Most people know what it's like to have a bad back. The worst ones can leave you laid up for weeks and others become a constant irritation that occasionally settle down but invariably return with unfailing regularity, such as Sciatica. Reports I've rea... Read >

Back Pain and Sciatica – There Are Many Causes

Stressed tissue is also more sensitive which means that it is not only more difficult to change, but the stressed person feels more pain as you try, not a good mix for the patient. It is the long held belief of some, that the negative emotions we exper... Read >