Lumbago is a common pathology in occident. Due to the structure of the occidental skeleton, with an exaggerate lumbar lordosis, the number of people affected is very high. More over, other pathologies that affect to the skeleton structure make worse the situation : hormonal or degenerative problems added to the hiper lordosis provoke more problems.
At our school we treat this pathology with enormous success using Shiatsu and Sotai ho technique. But treatment won’t be complete without the implication of the user. It is for that reason that we always recommend them some simple exercises to prevent or get well lumbago
If the origin is due a degenerative reason, exercises are concentrated at the psoas iliaco muscle, the muscular chains of the inferior part and the posterior part of the body. The age and some degenerative articulation illness make those muscles work worse, making wake the lumbar zone that suffer the consequences.
We suggest the following exercises:
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If the origin is due to an excessive lumbar curvature the exercises focus the work in the flexibility of the articulation lumbo sacra without extend it, which will get worse the lumbar problem. We suggest working the flexion and the rotations that liberate the muscles that have the origin in the lumbar zone and iliac crest. The exercises are the following:
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When the origin is owing to hormonal imbalance (mainly suffered by women) the exercises are concentrated in the inferior part of the legs. Accordingly with the Oriental Medicine, this zone rules the way of the blood and the hormonal manage. In this case we suggest the following exercises:
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We advise doing these exercises at least once per day. Moreover, if you receive shiatsu regularly, the action on the pathology will be most important and quicker. We insist that implication of the person suffering the pathology is needed. Propose too many or too complicated exercises it useless as at the end the people stop the practicing. For that reason, we recommend six or seven easy exercises that only take a few minutes to do.
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