The 4th Factor Contributing to Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica
We have been discussing the 5 factors contributing to neck pain, back pain, and sciatica over the past few weeks.
In the last 3 days we have discussed the first 3 contributory factors:
1) Excess weight and/or obesity
2) Muscle weakness
3) Muscle Imbalance
All three of the above mentioned factors play a vital role in our understanding and dealing with neck pain, back pain, and sciatica.
The final two factors are equally important:
4) Inadequate diet and nutrition
5) Dehydration or inadequate hydration
Significantly, all of the factors are interrelated and are interdependent.
In order to effectively achieve real and lasting neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief, it is crucial that we deal with all five factors collectively. Ignoring even one aspect, one contributory factor, may in fact lead to a break down in the entire system and ultimately lead to failure of your efforts. A concerted approach, focusing on all five factors, will lead to real and lasting pain relief…long term!
The fourth of the five contributory factors leading to and exacerbating neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica is inadequate diet and nutrition.
Diet and nutrition play a key role in achieving real and lasting pain relief for a myriad of reasons. If you are still leading a sedentary lifestyle and have not yet started a neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica relief exercise program or you have recently started the road back to a pain free life, diet and nutrition must be a primary focus. Not only does diet play a crucial role prior to beginning an exercise program, the need for proper diet grows exponentially after you begin to exercise.
Unfortunately, when we begin to experience acute and/or chronic levels of neck pain, back pain, and sciatica, we often fail to eat properly.
The reason?
We are in pain and eating is the furthest thing from our mind.
This is particularly true when we have been dealing with chronic pain for an extended period of time and are beginning to skirt depression or have been diagnosed as clinically depressed. When depressed, the last thing we want to do is eat! If we do not eat properly, our bodies simply do not have the raw materials, the nutrients, necessary to rebuild and repair itself. The lack of proper dietary habits and the inadequate nutrition associated with inadequate diet leads to increased levels of neck pain, back pain, and sciatica. The increased pain leads to a loss of appetite, heightens depression, and leads to increased levels of neck pain, back pain, and sciatica…and the cycle continues and expands.
As we begin the process of reclaiming our lives, as we begin to increase activity, exercising for the relief of neck pain, back pain, and sciatica, we need even more nutrients for our body to repair and rebuild itself. Without the proper diet and the proper nutritional content in our diet, our body will continue to deteriorate and our neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief exercise program with either stall or fail entirely.
By ensuring a proper diet, rich on the proper nutrients, we may be on the road to pain relief once and for all!
Ultimately, there are three things you need to focus on when it comes to diet when beginning a neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief exercise program:
1) You need to focus on what it is you are eating, keeping track of what you are eating all day, every day. Keeping track will have an immediate effect on what you consume, and how much!
2) You must space your meals at regular intervals, eating 4-6 times per day, spacing meals no closer than 3 hours apart. You will get used to this and it will help immensely.
3) You must be aware of the nutritional value of the food you are eating, not only in terms of calories (which will help with the first factor, excess weight and/or obesity) but in terms of the nutrients consumed. It is crucial that you become a student of your own dietary needs and habits, and a label reader.
Paying attention to the 3 steps above will help make things easier and will provide your body with the fuel it needs to achieve long term neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief. Failure to apply these steps will either stall or doom your program to failure, as noted above.
Without the necessary building blocks, the nutrients, your body cannot repair and rebuild and your neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief program will fail. Provide the necessary diet, at the right times, and in the right amounts, with the proper quality, and you will be one your way to real and lasting neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief!
For more information on neck pain, back pain, and sciatica relief you can visit my Ultimate Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Relief Strategies blog or the Ultimate Weight Loss Plan blog.
John
Professor John P. J. Zajaros, Sr., The Bad Back Guy
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