Back pain relief takes time, it may take years before you get better. As you get older you will have more and more back pain. Relieving back pain is hard and difficult, don't expect any miracles.

Are you cringing when you read these? Have you heard these over and over, for years?

Have you given up and started to believe these statements? Do you now live with the fear that your back pain will always remain or only slightly improve? Are these statement true?

I have some good news, it isn't. There are some conditions that apply. These statements become true if you only remove some of the causes of back pain.

The reason these statements become true is that most people and also most therapists only ever remove part of the cause of back pain. If you only remove some of the causes, you will only get some of the solutions.

I was once told a little rule of sorts. It said if you are a hammer, then everything is a nail. What this means is that if you only use one technique, you can only remove one problem.

The problem with most back pain relief techniques is that they only teach you one technique. If you only have one technique, you can only remove one problem.

There are those that will get better, that use one technique and find all their problems vanish. It isn't luck, but they are lucky in that they only had one back pain issue. This is not common. Most people like you, have a few things creating your back pain.

But your back pain is designed to heal, your body heals cuts, so it can heal back pain. It should be permanent also. For most people this doesn't happen, why?

Because you are only ever shown part of the back pain relief picture. You are given a few stretches or exercises. You are then told to stick with it and your back pain will ease. You may have been shown a few techniques for your joints and told this will help.

Again, this only covers part of the cause of back pain. Back pain is not just physical, it is also related to stress and your general health. Just think when you are tired and stressed, your muscles tighten don't they.

If all you do is stretch, you will not get long term benefits until you learn to ease some of your stresses. Back pain relief may take years, you may have ongoing back pain as you age. The reason is simple...

If you want long term relief from back pain, you must use stretches for your muscles, joint techniques for the joint and pelvic imbalances, but you also need to look at your general health and stress levels. Otherwise your current back pain relief efforts will not give you long term results.