If you find yourself immensely overweight, you will also find yourself with immense back pain. For larger women, you will experience both pain in your upper back and shoulder due to the weight of your breasts pulling at your bra straps, as well as your lower back due to the lack of abdominal muscles that act as a natural girdle by holding everything in place and providing much needed support. There are a number of things that overweight individuals can do in order to significantly reduce this unnecessary strain and improve your quality of life.
The first thing that you should do is lose the weight. If you have a large amount of excess weight to shed, you should seek out nutritional counseling-- someone to guide you on a healthier eating path and to help you see where you are making eating mistakes. Your counselor will also offer tips and suggestions on eating out, how to make your own nutritional meals at home, how to shop and read labels, as well as be a friend to you as you start making life changing decisions with regards to your eating habits.
Exercise will also play an important role in changing your body. By doing specific exercises, you can begin to strengthen key muscles that help your back stay strong and healthy. So with these two combination's, diet and exercise, you will be taking the first steps at not only getting your body healthy, but your back as well.
The next step you must take is to go see a chiropractor who specializes in not only back care, but also rehabilitation of the back and body. This type of chiropractor understands the pain that you are in and will help your body regain its mobility and make movement pain free. When someone has been literally trapped in their own body due to being overweight, they tend to lose their independence which isn't only physically debilitating, but emotionally as well. Chiropractors specializing in rehabilitation will work with this individual in order to slowly free them from immobilization. They might recommend spinal decompression along with weekly adjustments to the spinal vertebrate in order to get the spine loose and moving again and stop it from clamping down on the nerves that reach the other parts of the body. Adjustments and decompression will equal less and less pain as you continue treatments and lose the unnecessary weight.
Once you have begun to lose the weight and are treating your back pain with chiropractic rehabilitation care, you should see a significant increase in energy and a great decrease in pain. This method of healing is all non-surgical and has proven to be just as effective for reducing and eliminating back pain to all those who have taken this holistic approach to pain relief. These two methods, chiropractic care and spinal decompression, have been around a very long time and will not cause any undue pain or harm to those who seek out its healing benefits. They are both safe, effective, and cheap compared to having invasive spinal surgery or weight loss surgery.
