Jaw Problems.

Another interesting case worth sharing.

The body is a complex mechanism.  Like a Rubick’s cube, you can’t move one square without it affecting another.  That’s the way it is sometimes when figuring out a person’s problematic low back pain.

This patient of mine was having low back pain, and it would really hurt when she would bend her head forward.  I’m checking her muscles and everything is looking good until we come to the stomach muscles which were very weak.  Ah Ha!  Weakness in the front muscles causes spasm in the back, makes sense.  We know from Sacral Occipital Technique and Applied Kinesiology that the skull bones can have an affect on the stomach muscles and sure enough she had this problem as well.

So what was causing the skull problem?  The most common reason?  The jaw.  Clenching her teeth was shifting the skull bone alignment, shutting down the stomach muscles causing the spasm in the lower back.  And when I was done working on her, she could sit and bend her head again WITHOUT the low back pain!

Dr. Robert Ebeling is a licensed chiropractor in the state of Colorado since 1990 and helps people find solutions for problematic body aches that conventional doctors want to prescribe medication for.  He can be reached at (303) 377-1755 in Englewood, Colorado.  Robert Ebeling, DC