A ccording to the mass communications media, back pain is a costly epidemic that afflicts eight out of ten of us sometime in our lives. Most reports spend more time talking about the problem than about solutions. For the good these approaches do, they have yet to solve the problem in a conclusive way. It's either that, or drugs. Something else is needed.
Back trouble is too painful, too serious to be dismissed that quickly, or that easily.
Popular opinion is a problem Hanna Somatic Educators have to deal with on a daily basis. The results of conventional therapeutic approaches are usually temporary and the person remains subject to re-injury and to prescribed limitations to movement. If you have had back trouble and been told to expect to live with the problem for the rest of your life, you know what I mean. Lasting relief from chronic tension is obtained only when the tension habit is broken. They have back muscles conditioned into a painfully high state of tension that predisposes them to muscle spasms.