Lower Back Pain:  With lower back pain, even life’s simplest activities can become a torturous challenge.  Simple bending, putting on shoes, sitting for work or travel, caring for family, even walking, standing or sleeping can instigate pain.  In reviewing more than 30 years of in-depth new patient evaluations, it has become clear that even with lower back pain of sudden onset, at least 95% of the time the cause is long standing imbalances of muscles, discs, ligaments and improper spinal alignment that have conspired to create fertile ground for even the slightest daily extra strain to cause a collapse of spinal stability.  Once the spine has lost its stability, it is easy for nerves to become impinged by misplaced vertebrae, or bulging/herniated discs, causing mild to severe pain.  One can treat pain with medications and rest, or even surgery to remove the disc or bony material causing the nerve pain.  But unless all of the lower back’s, and in fact even the whole spine’s, biomechanical factors are addressed, most lower back pain episodes will recur.  Our full spine, comprehensive approach to restore, as closely as is possible, normal spinal form and function, ensures that the nerves, spinal bones, ligaments, muscles and discs all function together properly, without the nerves and discs becoming irritated.  Of course, our primary concern is to first bring relief from pain.  With the spinal and disc decompression protocol we offer, relief often comes rapidly.  However, relief is only part of the process.  We must then figure out each patient individually, to find out exactly where the weak areas are that have allowed the spine to deteriorate, and teach that patient what they personally need to do to strengthen these area so they can stay healthy and pain free.  This ensures your ability to fix the cause of your low back pain and keeps you from becoming dependent upon us.  One other factor that is almost always overlooked in treating low back pain is that if any existing forward head posture is not corrected, and the normal shock absorbing curves of the lower back AND neck are not restored, the lower back pain will almost assuredly return, often worse, and the spine and posture will continue to deteriorate.  The spine must be addressed globally for rapid and complete recovery.