Welcome to Erase Your Back Pain.
Back pain will affect 80% of the population at some point in their life and, at any point in time, over 1/3 of us are experiencing back pain.
Despite the prevalence of back pain, treatment options are inconsistent and confusing, leaving back pain sufferers with more questions than answers.
My goal for this website is to provide you with the most up to date and pertinent information on back pain treatment strategies and empower you to ask better questions of your health care provider.
The more you know, the better you’re going to feel, and the less tolerant you’re going to be of useless, time consuming, and expensive treatment.
If you have questions about back pain, sciatica, herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis or a particular treatment option, please take a moment and ask by simply filling the form out below.
If you’ve tried everything and nothing has worked to ease your back pain, please consider my guaranteed program. You can read about it here ==> No More Back Pain!
Dedicated to Erasing Your Back Pain,
Malton A. Schexneider, PT, MMSc
The Back Pain Expert
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I currently learned about your website through my boyfriend, Robert Rodriguez. He has mentioned that you had great concern about the Rhizotomy procedure that he had last week. He has started watching your videos and began doing the stretches and exercises that you recommended. He has since began to feel better. Thank you so much for your concern and insight. We both appreciate it so much. However, I’m writing you today because I have been experiencing lower back pain for about 12 years now. I’ve not seen a doctor about my back pain, so I not real sure what’s going on with it. I recently went to the emergency for my neck and I do have a herniated disc in my neck bulging on my left side (disc 5). But with a known herniated disc in my neck and unbelievable pain in my lower back, it’s sometimes hard to really do anything that I like doing. Simple movements like bending over to turn my bath water on, I sometimes can’t make it back up. I workout regularly, I try to eat right and I’ve even dropped about 20 lbs. and still nothing as seemed to help me. I don’t have insurance at the time but I would appreciate any insight that you might have. Thank you in advance for your time!
Heather,
Thanks for your question and I’m glad Robert is doing well.
As to your question, my advice is to stay active. What you don’t use you lose and if you stop being active out of fear, thintgs will get worse.
Contrary to conventional belief, the spine if very tough and it’s reallly hard to injure it. Check out my December 17, 2007 post. So the take away here is STAY ACTIVE!
The second thing I would do is identify the underlying cause of your back pain. This is where my program would be invaluable for you. Once the problem is identified, treatment is easy.
If you’d like a free personal consult, email me at backpainhelp@gmail.com
Let me know if I can help.
Malton
Thank YOU……I did take some action and started using the exercises you recommended. Found them extremely helpful. Needed to stretch…now I know how and what to stretch!!
You’re most welcome. Glad they worked out for you. If you ever have any further problems with sciatica or back pain, please let me know if I can help.
Just wondering if sciatica can cause discomfort right above pubic area? It is my right side that is the problem and right pubic area where I feel discomfort, especially if I sit too long. (sorta like a dull ache) I have been doing the exercises and it has helped out greatly. THANKS SO MUCH!!!
Dee,
Thanks for your question. First, consult with your doc about an ultrasound just to screen for any underlying issues. Better to be safe than sorry.
If you’re good to go, then there are generally 2 reasons for the symptoms you’re describing. 1.) Psoas muscle irritation and/or 2.) Pubic symphysis dysfunction (where the right and left pelvic bones join at the front.
Try these 2 activities:
1. Stretch the psoas. Here’s a video on how to do that: Back Pain Exercise
2. Pubic symphysis gap: Lying on your back, with your knees bent and feet flat, place a “squeezable” ball between your knees. Gently squeeze the ball holding each squeeze for 6 seconds. Repeat 10 times. This is done to create a slight gap in the pubic symphysis which sometimes can become restricted and produce thesymptoms you’re describing.
Let me know how this worked out for you. If you’d like a free consultation, please email me at backpainhelp@gmail.com
I see you also have helped people with shoulder pain. Is this something you would and could address while also treating the back pain?
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