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Louisville, CO Chiropractor | Back Pain Help | Jay Uecker, D.C.

I want to talk about back pain from the unique perspective of the work that we're doing here at the Network Life Center. In order to do that we’ve got to go way back to the beginning; back to when we were in the womb, and when we were just babies and when we were young kids. During that time in our lives the part of our nervous system that was online was a part that was just feeling into our environment. There was no thinking. We were just relating directly to the energetics of our environment with this very sensitive part of our nervous system.

As we were doing that we were feeling into the people around us, especially our parents. We may have noticed that there was something in their system that gave us the sense that the world is not really safe. We may have noticed that there were certain feelings and emotions an sensations that their nervous systems said were not safe to feel; maybe anger, or grief, or shame, or even joy. Since we were relying on these people for our survival, our nervous system said, “Well, this must be the way it’s done.” And so our nervous system adopted these patterns as a natural course of things.

The survial programming that gets installed by the primitive part of our brain is the fundamental layer that underlies everything that happens to us afterwards. So the falling off our bike, the car accident, the sitting on our wallet, the sitting at a computer, are of these things that it's common to hear chiropractors and other structurally oriented specialists talk about, while they don't help the situation, are generally not the primary problem. All of these things are secondary to the survival programs that get installed in our system early on. In fact we’re more likely to get injured by the car accident because our nervous systems can’t adapt to it and we’re less likely to be able heal from it because there’s always a fundamental layer of survival programming underlying the injury that won’t let it heal completely.

When our nervous system installs these programs it uses muscle tension to wall off the energy that was deemed unsafe, to keep it sequestered and keep it outside of our awareness. It shuts breath down to these parts because if we breathe into it, we’ve got to experience it, and our nervous system has learned that these things are not safe to experience. We use our posture to help separate the offending parts from coming into relationship with other parts.

From the perspective of this model, there are two basic reasons that pain starts to come to the surface. The first situation is one in which a new developmental stage is dawning. In this new developmental stage the energy that was seen as unsafe back then is no longer seen as unsafe and so our body starts to release it and it starts to come to the surface. We can often experience this as back pain. In this case the back pain is actually your body trying to correct itself. Second, if our nervous system has used a lot of resources for creating survival programs, at some point our nervous system may just run out of resources to continue dedicating to these survival programs. At that point this strategy starts to break down and that energy starts to leak out. When it starts to move and come into consciousness it can show up as all sorts of things, but back pain is often one of them.

When we look at back pain from this perspective, it’s merely stuck energy that’s trying to move. In this view, pain is actually the solution. We feel the pain because our body is actually trying to correct itself by integrating the stuck energy. The way to extract the solution from the pain and catalyse the integration is to go towards it. I've talked about specific ways to do this in a series of videos on pain.

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