The following is what I have personally found to be the best and most cost effective means of managing my chronic back pain on an ongoing basis without the need for visits to any practitioners or using any drugs. Drugs and many other back pain relief products and devices only relieve pain temporarily and only mask the pain without addressing the actual cause which most often is spinal disc compression. Managing chronic back pain takes effort. I have found it does not have to cost a lot as long as you are consistent. Each has a reason and each is important to get off and stay off the roller coaster of back pain.

Use the LumbarTrac Spinal Fitness Machine every week or as needed.

Do daily stretches, morning and night, designed to stretch and elongate the muscles that cause back pain. These muscles include the glutes, piriformis, quadratus lumborum, and erector spinae. These are very pleasurable stretches once you get used to them. You can find many beneficial stretching video’s at spine-health.com

Do core strengthening exercises as outlined by Dr. Eric Goodman and Peter Park in their book Foundation. They also have YouTube videos. These core strengthening exercises will strengthen the muscles surrounding your spine to help you stand straight and tall without having to think about it. Once you strengthen these muscles it will feel like you are always wearing a supportive back brace, but it will be your own muscle.

Practice yoga at least 3 times per week at your local yoga studio. More is better and can replace daily stretches and core strengthening exercises. This will bring elasticity back to all of your muscles while strengthening your core to help support your spine as you decompress it with LumbarTrac. An ancillary benefit will be that you will meet other health minded people that will raise your spirits and restart the natural chemical factory in your brain that taking drugs for pain most likely inhibited leading to depression.  These feel good chemicals are serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins and are much more beneficial than what comes in a pill bottle.

Give your body the proper nutrition it needs as outlined by Dr. Joel Fuhrman in his book, Eat To Live. It is the best $15 you will ever spend. Proper nutrition will reduce inflammation in your body that causes pain. Do not underestimate how what you eat can cause pain in your body. Inflammation is the leading cause of pain and death. Proper nutrition will change your life and reverse most elective disease.

There are no short cuts to chronic back pain management. Do not rely on pills, braces, tens units, and cheap home devices that are mildly effective and end up in a closet or break soon after the warranty period expires. Do the above and live a normal life.

Kevin Byrd

LumbarTrac Founder

LumbarTrac can decompress your lower lumbar, middle thoracic, and upper cervical spine to reduce and eliminate pain due to spinal compression and pinched nerves.

Spinal Decompression works for me.

In 2010 I was suffering terribly from lower back pain. An MRI revealed that I had two bulging discs and one herniated disc. Sitting was unbearable. My left leg had become numb. My chiropractor encouraged me to try Spinal Decompression and if that did not work – surgery would be the next step. For the next three months I drove back and forth to Morehead City. There I received Spinal Decompression treatments on a DRX 9000 machine. The large machine was operated electronically by a medical technician. Appointments were cancelled whenever she was unable to be there to operate it. The drive was painful for me and the treatments were costly but the Spinal Decompression gave me relief from my pain.

The health of my back was dependent on whether or not I was taking care of myself. I learned what activities not to do in order to keep back pain at bay. However, in 2012 I re aggravated my back by choosing to move a large bookshelf that was full of heavy books. Rather than waiting for help I moved it and without first removing the books. Back to Morehead City I went. Once again Spinal Decompression worked.

I re injured my back in October of this year while doing yard work in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. Something as simple as rolling over in bed at night had become extremely painful. I was thrilled to discover I could receive Spinal Decompression locally at a LumbarTrac Massage Therapy and Back Pain Relief Studio. The LumbarTrac equipment is small, non electronic, and even I can operate it. I use it at my convenience and at very little cost. I rarely miss a day of using LumbarTrac. LumbarTrac’s Spinal Decompression is working for relief from my lower back pain. I am now sleeping pain free during the night.

Thank you, Kevin Byrd for inventing the LumbarTrac and for teaching me simple exercises that will help with the lifelong process of my being able to maintain stronger back muscles. I am finally motivated to take better care of my back. I plan to continue being faithful in the use of the LumbarTrac. Spinal Decompression has been a proven help for me.

Glenda Daniels

New Bern, NC

December 2nd, 2016