Cell phones?! For neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica treatment and relief? Yes, cell phones!
If you are just starting out with the Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Treatment and Relief Strategies 30 Day Challenge, or if you have been with me for months now, chances are you are beginning to walk short distances, perhaps for the first time in years.
Incredibly, I have been getting phone calls, emails, Skype instant messages and voicemails from people all over the world telling me they are walking and/or exercising to overcome their chronic pain. This is so exciting because it means people all over the world are getting a second chance at life…a neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica free life!
How amazing is that!?
As we continue over the next 30 days, 26 now, I will be offering suggestions and strategies for lasting neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica relief.
The first step I took on my own journey, my own pain relief strategy, was to begin walking. Frankly, I couldn’t do much else.
So here’s what I did:
1) I got up every day, a challenge in and of itself, particularly at first.
2) I pulled on my sweatsuit and had my wife help me put on my socks and my slippers…at first I didn’t even use shoes because I wasn’t going very far and shoes were hard to get on my feet because I couldn’t tie my shoes (I couldn’t bend over), and because my feet were so swollen most of the time, for a variety of reasons.
3) I then had my wife help me walk to the end of the driveway and back up to the house. That was it at first, it was all I could do!
4) After I recovered, iced my back, and waited for the pain to abate…I showered.
5) As I began to feel a bit better I would do it more than once a day. But at first, once a day was all I could handle.
That was it! That’s how I started my personal journey back. And now I walk 5-8 miles a night with TuffGuy! It all started with my wife helping me up and down the driveway, at a time when I couldn’t even put on shoes.
If you have started a stretching, walking, and exercise program, you have started what may be a magnificant journey, a way back from the kind of life that is full of limitations, to an amazing life full of possibilities! If you have taken the first steps, I applaud you!
If you are considering just how to begin?
Just do it!
Yeah, I know, I hate cliches too but this one works.
Anyway, if you have just stumbled on this site, please join us. If you started on day one or way back in June, keep going…your life will be transformed. And so will you!
So, we are in Day 4 of the Neck Pain, Back Pain, and Sciatica Treatment and Relief Strategies 30 Day Challenge; and, if you have started a walking program, a cell phone is absolutely crucial.
First, let me say this, I hate cell phones!
I do not own one! My wife, daughters, son, son-in law, heck practically everyone I know has a cell phone and they can’t live without them. I use one when I have to, for emergencies and to protect myself from the possibility of being stranded miles from home and no way to call for help. You see, no matter how far along you are in your walking program, there is always a chance something could happen, and you need to protect yourself…so a cell phone is necessary.
Make sure when you begin your neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica relief walking program you have a cell phone, and also make sure you carry water with you.
I also carry a notepad with me, always. Not only is a notepad important for jotting down the little aches and pains you may have along the way but it is also quite useful for ideas. You see, when the endorphins start pumping, the ideas begin to flow. Endorphins are the body’s very own version of pain medication, natural opiods, and the endorphins not only help with your neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica, they also help you feel really great and I have discovered that some of my best ideas often flow from walking with TuffGuy at night.
Some of my best ideas have come during walks, ideas of all kinds…business, personal stuff, you name it.
We will get into what to do with the observations and ideas you write down in future blog posts, articles, and videos but for now just make sure you note things as they happen and keep them in a journal, they will be invaluable to you not only now but as you progress.
Additionally, no matter how good you feel during your walks, always remember one thing…you have to make it back!
Also, do not spend yourself the first day, you have to make sure you can go again tomorrow, so don’t overdo it! If you start out too aggressively, and it is entirely possible that some of you will. You will pay for it tomorrow if you do! If the day after is too painful, you may not want to continue, so start gradually and build incrementally, one step upon another, and so on.
No one loses 100 pounds in a week, no one creates 6 pack abs overnight, and absolutely no one gets relief from neck pain, back pain, and/or sciatica in one day.
Be patient, be consistent, build gradually, and before long you will be walking, stretching, and working out daily and loving it…a new person! In order to overcome your pain and achieve real and lasting relief, you need to build in a constant and never ending fashion. If you do so, neck pain, back pain, and sciatica will be in the past and whether or not you use a cell phone will be a luxury and not a necessity.
For now? The cell phone must be part of your emergency kit. Never leave home without it!
John
Professor John P. J. Zajaros, Sr., The Bad Back Guy
216-712-6526 (call me at home!)
Skype: johnzajaros1
johnz@ultimatebadbackstrategies.com
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