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. Back pain comes from something the body is doing, not something that is happening to it. One thing you will almost always notice about people with back pain is their high shoulders and swayback.
Muscles obey the brain.
Except for momentary reflexes controlled in the spinal cord, that's the whole story. So, if you have tight, spastic muscles, the problem is in your brain. The good news is that your muscles obey your brain, and your brain can be retrained. These conditions arise from excessive tension and strain on body tissues. The Landau Reaction is behind the back-pain epidemic in our society.