Hi I'm Rylie Teeter and I'm going to share with you a few things that you can do to
specifically target low back pain especially for those people that have
Sciatica. One of the biggest and best things that we've done is we've
incorporated a Lumbar Bridge into the customized bed design here. You can see
you can put in acupressure nodes but you can also put in this Lumbar Bridge.
It's completely adjustable to different points to give you a different height of
arch or move the arch up or lower in the spine. How I like to use this product
specifically for people with low back pain is I set it quite low and what
that does is it creates a butt bumper if you will that allows your hips to be
squared by the straight line at the bottom of the Lumbar Bridge. So if you've
ever been to a chiropractor, one of the first things they do is check for leg
lengths and that's an indication that your hips are actually twisted or out of
alignment. So they're the foundation of the spine and can be a source of what's causing
your lower back pain. So by getting on the table and using the Lumbar Bridge, we
create an extra level of decompression that's happening in the lower spine.
The traction handles - and see I'm at a fairly gentle angle, I'm not going deep
into inversion and that allows this Lumbar Bridge to really isolate into
that area - and then to add the decompression of full inversion I will
use the Traction Handles. The Traction Handles add manual decompression and
they really allow you to push against that Lumbar Bridge and it really lifts
the spaces, really amplifies the decompression in that area because a lot
of the low back pain of course is from the impingement of the nerve roots that
are exiting between each of the vertebrae and so we really want to
stretch out that area to relieve that pain.
The next thing you're going to want to do is some of these rotational stretches
you can see I'm grabbing the Stretch Max handles here and I'm using just my arm
power to actually lift my body up. My back itself,
I'm not rotating my shoulder and using back muscles, I'm completely reliant on the
weight of my arm and that allows me to really target that stretch in the lower
lumbar. The next thing I'm going to show you is something you should only do
if you're comfortable with inversion. We never want to go past an angle that you
feel relaxed and can fully decompress because you're not going to get the
benefits if you're nervous. The next thing you're going to want to do is go to
full inversion. If you don't have the Traction Handles, you can reach up kind
of on the squares of the a-frame here - I'm going to do that I think -
we want to just push and add - again we're adding a little bit of manual
decompression but it really gets those hips - and I want you to wiggle
those hips side to side. You can go back and forth like this, you can do little
circles like this. I want you to do both directions and we're just loosening up
all those muscles in the lower back, just targeting that area and do that for a
little while and I want you to just breathe through it. Make sure you're
always breathing, it's really critical. It helps your body relax if you're taking
in air properly and exhaling properly and of course this grip and stretch hand
hold is another way to kind of do that same thing. You can grab here and do the
hip wiggle and this is just - you know if you don't feel comfortable bringing your
arms back to your side - this is another way to do it. So those are some really
great stretches and ways to target the lower back and really get at that
pain down in the lumbar. So try those stretches, let me know what you
think and I hope you see big differences and you start living the best life possible.