Back Pain Relief - Rehydrate Your Discs

Back pain relief is essential and targeting your spinal discs is an essential part.

Everyone I'm sure knows that there are discs in your spine; however these are not the most important part of your spine. There are the smaller facet joints at the back of your spine that determine how well your joints will move, there are also the small muscles around the joints that will create a lot of your back pain as well.

The discsheight to the spine and help elongate it; they allow for shock absorption.

If either of these two functions decline, then the facet joints and intrinsic muscles will start to fail also. This leads into back pain very quickly. Sure there are also many other factors that create back pain and to remove your back pain totally, you need to address all the factors relating to it. Back pain relief should be a complete process of relaxing tight muscles, strengthening weak muscles, getting your joints moving correctly and balancing your pelvis.

Back to the discs though...

Your spinal discs are made up of a jelly like substance. When you stand or sit the pressure of gravity actually allows your discs to leak a small amount of fluid. Your discs then decrease in height and lose their functional ability to shock absorb and to maintain your height.

This is why if you measure your height in the morning when you wake up; you are taller than when you go to bed. As you age your height shrinks, which you may notice in your parents and grandparents.

If your discs remained at their full height and fluid levels, then your shock absorption would remain and your height also. To do this you need to make sure three things are occurring every day...

1. You need to drink approximately 2 liters of water every day. If your fluid levels decline, so will the fluid levels in your discs. Water will help your muscles function, organs to work better, your nervous system to fire properly and a lot more.



2. You need to be eating 1/2 teaspoon of salt (actually 1/4 teaspoon for every liter of water you drink). Salt helps your discs rehydrate, salt also allows your Adrenal glands to function correctly. Your Adrenals help produce the anti-inflammatory products, help to distress your body and mind, re-energize you and more.



3. 
   Lie down more... yes lying down actually allows your discs to remain at their true height for longer. IT is gravity that is the biggest cause of disc shrinkage - if you lie down when you read, listen to music or watch TV, and then your discs have time to rehydrate by removing pressure off them.

Three simple things you can do that will improve the status of your spinal discs. Back pain relief is not just a matter of correcting your out of balance muscles, joints and pelvis. Back pain relief is also looking at the many other contributing factors to your back pain problems.