Overcoming Neck, Back, and Sciatic Nerve Pain One Step at a Time!

Well, TuffGuy and I are back at it, dealing with neck pain, back pain, and sciatica one step at a time! We started walking a couple of days ago after taking the winter off.

Wow are my legs sore!

I tried to walk with the little guy a few times when the weather first started to change, but being a short-haired dog, a Puggle, TuffGuy just wasn’t suited for the cold. Add to that, the fact that the salt and ice were tough on his paws, and I quickly realized I had to rethink my exercise program.

I had lost my workout partner!

A funny thing happened on my way to overcoming chronic neck pain, back pain, and sciatica…I got my life back!

As I started feeling better and eventually started walking, then finally exercising, I also started to think about working again. Anyone who thinks retirement is a good thing is nuts! Between the pain and the boredom…I was going bonkers! But every once in a while someone would still say, “Oh, I would love to be in your shoes! I’d fish and travel and do all sorts of things!”

Not!

I remember one trip I took, the girls were still playing soccer. We drove from Ohio to North Carolina for a huge tournament, the Raleigh Invitational Tournament.

I thought I was in Hell!

Very few times in my life have I experienced pain like that and I swore I would never travel like that again.

Back to the sectional!

But I tried!

I really thought my life was over, that for the next twenty or thirty years I was doomed to a life filled with pain, boredom, and Law and Order reruns.

I couldn’t read! How could I?

Between the chronically acute neck pain, back pain, and sciatica, and the pain medication, I was lucky to be able to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes.

Read? Impossible!

One of the things I enjoyed most in life, after my family and my dogs, was reading. I hadn’t been able to read a book in years!

I really had no idea I would ever be able to work again!

Heck, I wasn’t so sure I would be able to walk more than a few feet without passing out ever again!

Exercise?

Work?

As they say in the movie Donnie Brasco:

“Fahget abaat it!”

Interestingly, as I first started walking, finally exercising, and then even jogging a bit, I began to believe it just might be possible to reclaim my life.

I imagine that? After 10 years of fighting for my life. Was it possible?

Over the past year I have come to believe it is not only possible and probable, in fact, it is a reality.

I can work again!

Starting slow, first helping others deal with the same chronic neck pain, back pain, and sciatica I was beginning to overcome, I branched off into other areas and, before I knew it I was busy again, making a living, rebuilding my life, building businesses!

However, when winter came and I lost my walking partner, combined with the demands of building businesses and rebuilding my life, I slacked off! In doing so, I gained back a few pounds…and so did TuffGuy!

TuffGuy & The Bad Back Guy: Shedding the Winter Weight!

I also noticed an achy feeling from time to time. No, nowhere near the acutely chronic pain I used to experience, but enough remind me that if I didn’t get my act together, get back in the gym, and start walking again, I would pay!

So, with the weather breaking and both TuffGuy and I in need a exercise…we have commenced to walk again. The first 2 nights we did 4.4 miles. Not bad for a guy who couldn’t get from the sectional to the bathroom without passing out in pain, literally, less than 2 years ago.

No kidding!

Permanently catheterized because my bladder didn’t work properly due to the pain, passing out daily and to the point that my wife was afraid to go to work and leave me, and taking enough Oxycontin and Fentanyl to kill a horse (hundreds of 80mg tablets and fentanyl lozenges prescribed monthly), I started by walking to the end of my driveway and back…with Connie’s help.

By the time the snow fell this past winter, TuffGuy and I were up to 7-8 miles a night; and, I was also working out, riding a recumbent bike and lifting weights (Yup!) in the gym every single day, six or seven days a week.

How great is that?

Interestingly, with the snow, the loss of my walking buddy, and the increasing demands on my time building my life, again, I started missing workouts at the gym. Walking was out, it was lonely without my buddy along side, and ultimately I was worried about taking a spill on the ice. As good as I was feeling, after a broken neck, 14 back operations, and a complete shoulder reconstruction (plates, screws, wires, the whole shabang!) , all it would take would be one fall.

So, ice skating, hockey, playing for the Cleveland Browns (well, maybe!), and eventually walking through the snow and ice were out.

I could have continued to go to the gym or even bumped up my workouts a bit…but I got busy, started seeing dollar signs, and forgot what had worked, what had been responsible for my ability to walk, exercise, and work again.

Dumb!

But we are all human, right?

Getting back to the story:

We have started walking again and, a guy who could barely make it out of bed two years ago, less than two years ago, went 4.4 miles his first night…little dog right beside me!

It felt great! Even the soreness felt great! Compared to chronic and acute neck pain, back pain, and sciatica, and all the complications that came with it, the soreness was almost as good as….

Well, almost as good as!

Finally, I want to apologize!

I know I have let my readers down and I will make it a point to keep you informed, offer tips and advice (anecdotal, of course), videos, and articles, here and at Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief Strategies to help you reclaim your life, as well. It is do-able! It can be a reality for you too! If I can reclaim my life after all I have been through, you can too!

If you need help, want to walk, or whatever…just ask!

Contact me any time!

John

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Overcoming Chronically Acute Neck, Back, and Sciatic Nerve Pain: A Life Reclaimed!

First and foremost, I would like a apologize for not posting in a month! I had no idea it had been a month, time has flown by!

There was a time, not too long ago, when the days crawled and were filled with horrible, debilitating neck pain, back pain, and sciatic nerve pain. In other words, my life was consumed with pain!

Fast forward a year and a little but and I am literally pain free!

How great is that?

More importantly, what does that mean for you?

Well, if you listen to some of my attackers, and yes, everyone has them on the Internet, particularly if you have been around for any length of time…nothing!

I think the attacks have been almost as painful as the neck pain, back pain, and sciatic nerve pain were…almost!

The attacks on my character, attacks for trying to help others reclaim their lives as I have, are quite perplexing.

Have some people become so jaded, so cynical they cannot imagine someone dedicating themselves to encouraging others to take the first steps toward a pain free life, as I have?

The attacks come about once a week, usually on YouTube, and usually by someone who has had an account for quite some time, an anonymous account.

Interestingly, most of the attacks come from people who do not use their names online at all…and they have never contributed a single video, good or bad!

So, I should consider the source, right?

I guess so!

The world has indeed changed and most people are still good, I know that. Most people simply want to get through the day unscathed, contribute to the lives of those they love and care about, and make a living. beyond that, most people don’t have time to attack anyone else…much less think about doing it!

So, why do they do it?

Who knows?

Perhaps they have a different sort of pain, the sort of pain that comes from frustration, negativity, depression, self-loathing, and self-hatred!

Again, who knows?

Ultimately, I can’t be concerned with them.

I block them and move on…add another post, another video, and another article…perhaps helping someone else.

I want to thank those of you who have commented, emailed, and even phoned or Skyped to tell me how much you like, and have missed, my posts….it means the world to me!

I made up my mind when I started down this road that if I helped one person, that would be enough, I would keep going and continue contributing.

I know I have helped more than one, you’ve told me so!

Again, thank you so much!

TuffGuy and I have missed our walks and telling you about them. The weather in the Cleveland area has been rough. We might get a walk in tonight…the sidewalks are clear and I miss saying hello to all the doormen along Detroit Avenue here in Lakewood.

I have ventured out a few times in the snow over the last month to do my 5 to 7 miles but it is not the same without TuffGuy. The doormen seem to agree, they always ask where he is!

Life has been busy. I started a new company and made a big sale my first week! I love it because it is one more way to help people.

Over a year ago Tony Robbins did something nice for me. I was at my lowest point in years and he offered a kindness, asking only that I pay the kindness forward. Tony does a lot of that, it seems!

Well, I have been honoring that request ever since. In fact, the kindness he offered was never “cashed in!” The fact that he offered was enough.

Others were just as kind while my family struggled, struggled just to keep a roof over our heads and food in our bellies. I can never repay the many kindnesses, many would never accept repayment!

So, I Pay it Forward!

Funny how things work out, isn’t it?

So, I will continue to write, suggest, push, and prod as long as one person reads my posts and is encouraged to do as I have, take back your life.

Living pain free is amazing!

After so many years of terrible, debilitating neck pain, back pain, and sciatic nerve pain?

To be pain free is wonderful! I have a new life. You can too!

You can live pain free if you take the first step.

The first step is the toughest one, every one after that gets easier until it is finally wonderful.

Neck pain, back pain, and sciatica do not have to be a permanent reality, you can overcome them!

Just give it a shot! What do you have to lose?

Just the pain!

Best wishes and thank so much for being a reader.

Please, leave a comment!

John

Professor John P. J. Zajaros, Sr., The Bad Back Guy
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Choosing the right neck pain, back pain & sciatica exercise program goes hand in hand with selecting the right gym. Choosing the right gym is second only to choosing a doctor!

Dealing with neck pain, back pain, and sciatica includes choosing the right gym, health and fitness, or wellness center…particularly as your needs change and the weather changes.

However, regardless of the weather, there comes a time when choosing the right workout facility will make or break your neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief exercise program.

Evolving from stretching and walking to exercise and from seeing your medical practitioner on a regular basis and going through the prescribed physical therapy program, there comes a time when one must chose the right gym in order to take your neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief exercise program to the next level…ensuring and assuring real and lasting long term chronic pain relief.

As a chronic and/or acute back pain sufferer you have certain considerations that must be accommodated for and, unless you thoroughly evaluate the gym or health and fitness center being considered, your neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief exercise program may fail.

Consider the various factors described at length in the article and video at:

Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief Strategies of The Bad Back Guy

Best wishes for real and lasting neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief!

Professor John P. J. Zajaros., Sr., The Bad Back Guy
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Begin With the Foundation: Stretching, Walking, and Exercising…The Legs are the Foundation!

The legs are quite literally the foundation of any neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief strategy. I started with stretching and walking, slow and steady but adding a bit more each and every time over a period of days, weeks, and months…now, it is time for more!

This is a remarkable thing, that I am even able to speak to you about a workout I am doing for any part of my body…but especially the legs! A year ago, housebound, depressed, and suffering from chronically acute neck pain, back pain, and sciatica…I was The Bad Back Guy!

As you progress, you must begin with machines rather than squats or lunges. The machines offer more control and a gradual approach is possible. Having suffered with neck pain, back pain, and sciatica for many years, the machines allow me to isolate certain body parts while minimally involving the synergistic and antagonistic muscle groups, this is safer and more effective as I begin.

You may be able to do the same thing, once you get to a certain level with stretching and walking and if, and only if, you feel comfortable in the gym or have someone experienced in neck and back issues to work with you.

I will go into greater depth on this topic but for now, I suggest you visit:

Ultimate Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief Strategies to review the subject, as well.

Watch the videos and read the articles, get an idea of what is entailed.

We will build from there in the coming days and weeks as we continue to stretch, walk, and exercise for neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief!

Contact me anytime!

John

Professor John P. J. Zajaros, Sr., The Bad Back Guy
216-712-6526 (home)
216-539-7412 (business)
Skype: johnzajaros1
johnz@ultimatebadbackstrategies.com

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The Nautilus Abdominal Crunch Machine is a Dinosaur!

But it is the only way to do abdominal crunches for individuals suffering from neck pain, back pain, and sciatica!

I am not a big fan of ab crunches for neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica relief or as an exercise strategy in general. However, they are much more effective than situps and the old style Nautilus Abdominal Crunch machine was and is an awesome exercise for people suffering from neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica because it effectively isolates the abdominal muscles in a way regular crunches cannot.

I never could have accomplished this sort of exercise movement, or anything close to it, 6 months ago, or even 4 months ago! It has only been by constant and never ending improvement over time that I have been able to do the things I can now do, achieving the level of neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief I now experience.

The problem on the Internet, particularly when it comes to neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief and treatment information is that there is so much bad information out there, particularly on some of the pseudo-blogs. Please be careful when deciding to follow any advice online.

Contact me anytime for information and to verify I am who I say I am and that I have your best interests at heart!

John

Professor John P. J. Zajaros, Sr., The Bad Back Guy
216-712-6526
866-835-2913 (toll free)
Skype: johnzajaros1
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The Recumbent Bike is an Awesome Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Exercise Tool.

The recumbent bike is a low-impact device almost anyone can use with very little risk of injury or chance of exacerbating a current spine-related condition. Not only is the exercise itself extremely beneficial, it is a year round, all-weather exercise strategy.

When beginning a neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica relief strategy the recumbent bike offers some real advantages over just about any other form of exercise.

Not only is the recumbent bike simple to operate, it is relatively inexpensive, much cheaper than a year’s membership at the local health club, and a whole lot more convenient. Given today’s easy financing, even the more expensive models are easily within reach for most people, and certainly cheaper than the lost revenue associated with neck pain, back pain, and sciatica.

When considering medical co-pays, lost time at work, diminished standard of living, being in pain day in and day out, the recumbent bike is a great deal!

My purpose is not to sell you a recumbent bike here, my purpose is to make it clear that this is an affordable neck pain, back pain, and sciatica exercise method that is within reach…and it works!

The best part about using a recumbent bike for your neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief and treatment exercise strategy is that if you find you are having difficulties that day, feel some slight discomfort while exercising, or you’ve just reached your tipping point for that day, you can simply climb off and, if you are home, jump in the shower and go on with the rest of your day, or if you are at the gym, simply jump off, jump in the shower, and go home to begin again the next day.

How great is that?

It’s not like walking or running where you might be several miles from home and have to call someone to come and get you, if you have watched my previous videos and read my previous articles, and have made sure to have an emergency kit with you on your walks or runs…to include a cell phone!

The recumbent bike, whether using one in your home, which is optimal, or at the gym, like I do, makes it possible to say, “That’s it for today!” and not have it be a major hurdle…like if you are 2 miles from home when you find you have had enough!

The recumbent bike is a low-impact neck pain, back pain, and sciatica exercise tool that works, enhancing aerobic fitness, dealing with muscle weakness and imbalances when applied along with other methods we have and will continue to discuss, and allows you to deal with the number one reason most people have and continue to have neck pain, back pain, and sciatica: excess weight and/or obesity.

20-30 minutes on the recumbent bike 3-5 days a week will enhance aeoribic fitness and muscle strength, while at the same time dealing with muscle imbalances, when used in conjunction with the proper stretching routine, and will ensure weight loss. In fact, using a recumbent bike just 30 minutes a day 4 days a week will lead to rapid and permanent weight loss…provided you continue to maintain a healthy lifestyle, including regular exercise, in the future. The increased activity, particularly if you have been sedentary for an extended period of time, will lead to rapid weight loss and the resulting neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief will be immediately apparent and, quite frankly, a welcomed change!

The recumbent bike is not the be-all-to-end-all but it is the single most important tool I use for overall fitness and for neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief. Using the recumbent bike allows for a spillover effect into several areas of my life and the overall improvement in quality of life is immediately apparent. Given just one neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica relief and treatement strategy for exercise? I would pick the recumbent bike…

“Feets down!”

John

Professor John P. J. Zajaros, Sr., The Bad Back Guy
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The first picture in the video is really pretty close to what I looked like before I started stretching, then walking, and finally exercising! Or at least this is how I felt! John-the-Hutt! That was it, complete with rolls, double chin, the works! The amount of neck pain, back pain, and sciatica caused by this much weight must have been incredible! But the pain relief all started with stretching and walking!

While millions of people visit their medical practitioner daily for one complaint or another related to “back pain,” most complaints are based on lower back pain and sciatica.

UNFORTUNATELY!

Most medical practitioners still prescribe bed rest and, if they provide any sort of stretching or exercise advise at all, it is in the form of a cheap copy run off by an assistant and handed to you on the way out the door!

This was my life just over a year ago! I showed this once before, along with a much less glamorous shot with TuffGuy below!

I really wrestled with showing you the above shot again but I think it is important for you to get a real sense of just how bad a shape I was in because I listened to bad advise from my doctors!*

Bed rest actually exacerbates the pain!

One day, and I really don’t know what happened, I said enough is enough! The pain of my life became worse than the pain in my neck and back!

 I got off the pain medication, a horrible ordeal in…but I did it!

 I started walking, at first to the end of the driveway and back up to the house…and always with my wife, Connie, and my buddy, TuffGuy!

 I started a stretching program and that led to an exercise program!

 I stretched, walked, and exercised a bit more each and every day, CANI! Constant and never ending improvement! (Tony Robbins)

Neck and Shoulders Stretches for Neck and Upper Back Pain Relief

 Rotate the head to the right and hold it for 6-8 seconds
 Rotate the head back to the left and hold it 6-8 seconds
 Repeat 10 times, slow and easy!

Do this 1 or 2 times a day at first, building up to 3-5 times a day over a period of a month or so. I have 2 compressed vertebrae in my neck and this helped immensely!

Neck and Shoulders Stretches for Neck and Upper Back Pain Relief

 While holding arms loosely at your sides, head and neck relaxed, shrug your shoulders up and hold for 6-8 seconds
 Repeat this 10 times, slow and easy, exaggerate the shrug and hold it.

Do this 1 or 2 times a day at first, building up to 3-5 times a day over a period of a month or so. I have 2 compressed vertebrae in my neck and this helped immensely!

Back Pain Relief Stretches

 Sit straight in a hard-back chair
 Hang your arms loosely to your sides
 Bend forward slowly until your chest is as close to your knees as your condition will allow
 Dangle your arms loosely while holding in position for 30 seconds or until it begins to be uncomfortable
 Return to an upright position
 Repeat 6-8 times

Do this 1 or 2 times a day at first, building up to 3-5 times a day over a period of a month or so. I have had 14 back operations and this helped immensely!

Back Pain Relief Stretches

 Stand erect, feet shoulder width apart
 Place your hands, palms in, on your lower back
 Bend your torso backwards, gently!
 Hold the hyper-extended position for 8-10 seconds and return to full upright
 Relax for 5 seconds
 Repeat 6-8 times
 MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS GENTLY AND SLOWLY!

Do this 1 or 2 times a day at first, building up to 3-5 times a day over a period of a month or so. I have had 14 back operations and this helped immensely!

Back Pain Relief Stretches

 Standing erect, feet a bit wider than shoulder width
 Place hand on hips (my kids used to call it the “Jolly Green Giant” pose!)
 Relax upper torso and neck
 Bend to the side at the waist and hold for 6-8 seconds
 Return to upright
 Bend to the opposite side and hold 6-8 seconds
 Return to upright
 Do this 5-10 times to each side

Do this 1 or 2 times a day at first, building up to 3-5 times a day over a period of a month or so. I have had 14 back operations and this helped immensely!

Sciatica – Leg Stretch

 Sit upright in a straight-back chair
 Cross your affected leg across the other in a wide cross (the way “guys” cross their legs)
 Rest the outside ankle of the affected leg on the top of the opposite knee
 Allow the affected leg’s knee to protrude out to the side
 Reach under the affected leg’s lower leg grasp the leg (or over it if you can’t reach under the leg to grasp the calf)
 Pull the leg and ankle off the “good” leg
 Feel the stretch all the way into the buttocks
 Hold for 10 seconds
 Replace and rest for 5 seconds
 Repeat 5-10 times.
 Also do the other leg for balance and stretch

Do this 1 or 2 times a day at first, building up to 3-5 times a day over a period of a month or so. I have had 14 back operations and this helped immensely with sciatica!

Main Points to Consider As You Begin Your Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief Program

 Get a medical practitioner to clear you and approve of beginning a stretching, walking, and exercise program for neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica relief!

 Less is often more! Do NOT over do it, particularly at first! Rome wasn’t built in a day, remember CANI!
 CANI! Constant (consistent) and never ending improvement

You should read the article on journaling, and your personal assessment below before beginning your stretching, walking, and exercise program!

The Most Important Advise I Can Offer?

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I have offered plenty of advice and tips at:

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Ultimate Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief Strategies

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NOTE: I am NOT a medical practitioner and my advise is anecdotal. These pain relief strategies have worked for me, however, as you apply these neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief strategies, make sure you take it slow and always refer back to your primary care physician if you notice anything out of the ordinary!

*You may have wonderful doctors and I am NOT a medical practitioner. Many physicians are up to speed when it comes to the latest neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief strategies, unfortunately mine were not! If you feel you are not progressing, get a second opinion at once, it is your life…protect yourself from bad medical advise. Just as in every area of life, there are good and bad specialists, make sure you have a good one…you only have one back and you only have one life!

The 30 Day Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief Challenge: Walking and Pain Relief Part II

As you begin to plan your neck pain, back pain, and sciatica treatment relief program, whether as part of the 30 day challenge or simply as a way to overcome acute and/or chronic pain, stretching and exercise will come into the picture almost at once.

Stretching and low-impact exercises are generally the pain relief strategies most medical practitioners start you out on. This is mainly because these medically supervised pain relief strategies are conducted in a controlled environment, one they have you visit in order to undergo some sort of physical and/or exercise therapy, sometimes one in the same.

However, if you are beyond the physical therapy stage, either because your insurance has run out or because you have given up on traditional medicine (actually quite common with chronic pain sufferers), you can still walk out your front door and have access to one of the best exercise strategies for your neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica; and that’s walking!

Walking is a great overall exercise, offering aerobic benefit, core muscle development, and overall muscle tone and strengthening!

The combination of benefits offered by walking, including real and lasting neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief, if instituted and integrated properly, will have a spill-over effect into virtually every area of your life.

The video below addresses some of the finer points you need to know as you begin a walking program designed for neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief.

As noted in the previous video, your shoes and socks are crucial, along with basic foot care. There is an article and a video on footwear and care of the feet, focusing on some of the issues you may face when beginning your neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief program, as well. In addition to footwear, the surface you walk on is crucial and if you must walk on concrete, as many in urban and suburban areas must, then footwear becomes all the more important.

I hope this video helps, I put it in as an add-on because this is such an important topic.

If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact me, I am always available for people suffering from neck pain, back pain, and sciatica because I know where you have been. If you have any other questions or concerns, you may find the answers in articles at:

Ultimate Neck Pain, Back Pain & Sciatica Relief Strategies

Or follow along and join in The 30 Day Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief Challenge by reviewing the videos here on this blog!

John

Professor John P. J. Zajaros, Sr., The Bad Back Guy
216-712-6526
866-835-2913 (toll free)
Skype: johnzajaros1
johnz@ultimatebadbackstrategies.com

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Walking is said to be one of the best overall exercises you can do. I would extend that by stating that walking is the best neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief exercise you can do. Not only is walking great for leg strength, it helps improve core muscle strength and aerobic fitness, as well.

Walking allows you to start slow and build each and every day until you have acheived real and lasting neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief.

Walking, if only to the end of the driveway or to the end of the block and back is an excellent way to begin introducing activity back into a sedentary lifestyle. Often, when plagued by chronic pain, particularly spine-related neck, back or sciatic nerve pain, we cease all activity; and this is normal! We tend to avoid things that cause us pain. However, inactivity actually exacerbates pain. So, unbeknownst to us, we actually end up making the problem worse.

Walking helps to develop overall muscle tone, obviously improving leg muscle strength and tone but it also helps with core muscle strength. The core muscles, particularly the lower back, abdominal and oblique muscles, are central to the issue of back pain relief. The more we do to develop the core muscles, the more relief we achieve.

The muscles of the neck are also affected my a sedentary lifestyle, the many small muscles of the neck are equally responsive to activity and develop strength and tone quickly with increased activity.

Aerobic fitness has a spill-over effect, meaning the more fit you are, the more energy you have, the better your attitude becomes, the more you are able to do. The more you are able to do, the more neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief you will be able to achieve through walking and other forms of physical activity. One activity builds upon the next until you have real and lasting neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief.

Ultimately, it takes the first step. That’s it! Beginning with a decision, followed by the first step, and building one day upon the next until you are a new and different person.

I can tell you from experience, and you will see first hand when you watch the video for Day 8 of The 30 Day Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief Challenge that taking the first step will lead to an amazing new future, one you can’t possibly comprehend at present but one that will lead you to real and lasting neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief.

Check out additional articles on neck pain, back pain, and sciatica at my other blog!

John

John Zajaros, The Bad Back Guy
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Whether you are just stumbling upon this for the first time or you have been with us all along, this is a wrap up of the first 7 days of The 30 Day Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief Challenge.

The Tools to Succeed on Your Journey Towards Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief

The video below includes everything you need to know and do to begin your journey to a neck pain, back pain, and sciatica free life. If you take the first steps as outlined here, and then continue to follow for the next 3 weeks, and beyond, you will be on your way to real and lasting neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief. It all begins with a decision and builds from there.

CANI! Will Be Your Best Strategy

As Tony Robbins calls it, CANI! Constant and never ending improvement!

In this case, it means building one day on the day before until neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica is a thing of the past. Every day things will get a bit easier, your journey full of anticipation, expectation, and excitement. The fact is, if you are like me, you had almost given up on ever living a pain free life again. Once you accept that it is not only possible but probable…heck, it’s guaranteed…you begin to get excited, you begin to look forward to life again, and you will once again believe there is a life full of promise and joy just waiting for you!

Life can be amazing again and you do not have to endure neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica any longer. Just make a decision, take the first step, click this link, and I will be along there with you…if that is your wish.

A Cautionary Note!

Be careful! Along with your new-found enthusiasm comes a tendency to want too much, too soon. That is a trap! If you do too much too quickly, you may actually derail your entire neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica relief program. It’s like going out the the very first day running and trying to run the Boston Marathon…it can’t be done. And, it may end up doing more damage than good. So, take it easy, take it slow, build one day upon the one before, and before you know it you will have a new and exciting neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica free life!

Join us and take back your life! You will never be sorry you made the decision to take the first step. Just take the first step, it won’t be easy…but it will be amazing!

I guarantee it!

John

Professor John P. J. Zajaros, Sr., The Bad Back Guy
216-712-6526
Skype: johnzajaros1
johnz@ultimatebadbackstrategies.co

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PPS, Enjoy the video…I liked the music!