Aneirin
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Same here, it was years before I worked out that the yoga was not helping matters, so I switched to pilates which did help, then onto bellydance, which sorted out the back issues and the scoliosis that I had through various stupid activities in my youth. Now with my posture corrected, I have no further problems with my back and the relief is fantastic. It is like taking ten years off one's age.
And before anyone says anything about the lack of NHS care, know this, I don't go near a medical professional unless I really have to, and only that after I have failed to sort the problem out myself, for I am reasonably skilled in phytotherapy and other alternative remedies. Hell, I even filled my own teeth in the past.
so your spine is totally straight now? How did you do that?
My scoliosis was caused by trauma, injuries I got from time to time , the so called slipped disc twice through industry, and various car and bike crashes, and what the body does to relieve pain and pressure on damaged parts, is move the spine in a way so that it does not cause pain, or at least lessens the pain. Over years this can result in muscles doing wrong things, instead of keeping the spine in the staight from the front, s curve from the side, the straightness from the front becomes bowed off centre. My scoliosis was picked up by a belly dance teacher, her observation was that my shoulders were naturally twisted out of line with my pelvis and were even dipped to one side. My pelvis was also twisted slightly forward on one side so the spine had a twist in it as well as being curved off line, to correct the posture in standing involved pain and weakness and naturalness to twist back to the damaged posture when unaware, so there was a problem.
First off I learned everything I could about back physiology and then taught myself the pilates exercise that were to do with strengthening the back, so exercises involving lying on the floor and the exercise ball I worked on, then introduced other exercises to act on the peripherals to the core, which the back is.
Feeling some natural pain relief via the pilates exercises, I then joined a belly dance class and got to it, training my frame to perform the dance movements, movements which are centred on the confluence of the lower spine and the pelvis, the area which I damaged first all those years ago and undoubtedly led to the curving to keep pain away from the area, that area being the core of the body where the largest vertebrae are and the strongest muscles to keep the confluence in the correct position for any activity. I kept on with the pilates and the dance these past three years and also adjusted my diet to a more Asian diet, which oddly kind of ties in with what is believed of the ayurvedic tri dosha system and what is taken as a dancer's diet, red meat and it's products I ditched in favour of fish and poultry and that on a sparing basis. So, the bottom line, for the first time in decades I have not got a back pain problem, the sciatica has gone and I don't feel crumpled anymore, and crumpled was a name I used on yoga websites.
But it was when I did Iyengar yoga that I learned exactly what life does to the frame, the things we do through life create the problems in later life, as Iyengar is concerned with posture and the rapid correcting of it and that because how we carry ourselves negates the natural design of our bodies, a design which cannot function correctly if it is forced into misalignment. For instance I learned with age not only do we lose height, but our legs in the case of males bow outwards from the straight, and in females, they bow inwards, this can be corrected with a bit of self bondage, but the research I did into Iyengar did reveal not only is our posture often incorrect, but even how we stand and sit, the mechanics of the body show how we should be, yet it is often we learn not to be through the fashions and dictates of life.
The belly dance taught me how to stand with knees slightly bent, ( observe Asian people who have less instances of the problems we suffer, how do they stand and propel themselves), where seven years in the military taught me to stand with legs straight, the military also taught me the jarring loud parade ground step, I now when I walk am silent using the whole of my foot placed not driven down, and of my foot, all that is meant to contact the ground does so to spread my weight. Strangely I have learned conventional shoes with hard soles actually create many of the problems, so now I prefer to be barefoot around the house, and hate donning shoes to go out.
So, my conclusion to the problems I have received through life to do with joints, is because of the western approach to such things as posture and movement, so that I see the western human as tall and straight, almost military, but the Asian, I see as using the natural s curve that the frame is from ankle to neck to cushion the body and hold it relaxed in movement, a relaxed supportive frame can handle the rigors of life better, whereas posture forced out of naturality by fashion actually creates the problems we suffer when our bodies have lost their youth.
As a point of interest, just observe people's shoes and how they wear, the wear indicating how they walk and how out of alignment their body might be, follow that alignment up and see where problems might be being felt, if not now, but in later life.
And as this is a bdsm website, I will say some actions in bdsm, I see as therapeutic, bondage being one, stretching being another and suspension, the latter two activities being well, traction of the spine, all aspects I just love being in from time to time, a need that I love to fulfill.
Also I use pain as a warning, pain felt means there is a problem, sometimes :), pain felt in the joints tells me a lot and there I analyse and correct if necessary. I don't use pain killers for this reason, as pain killers negate our natural warning systems, the systems that are there to aid us, not hinder us.
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