Core Stabilization Starts Here
A lesser known "secret to success" in the core stabilization process is the work of the pelvic floor musculature. Maybe people are reticent to talk about muscles of their bottom, the ones that help them control their bowels and bladder. Just the same, the pelvic floor muscles are a key ingredient in healthy posture and alignment. When they are not fully engaged, outer muscles jump in to try to compensate for missed actions. But those outer muscles, for example, the gluteus maxiums (the butt muscle), are big and, well, clumsy, when compared to deep postural muscles that perform the same actions.
Basic pelvic floor strengthening exercises, often called Kegel exercises (after the doctor who created them) can bring about positive changes to your back. Pelvic floor strengthening also enhances sexual experience and reduces incontinence. Try pelvic floor strengthening now.
If you would like to learn about the structure and function of the pelvis with emphasis on the pelvic floor, a good book is Pelvic Power, by Eric Franklin. Franklin is a dance and movement educator who shows the power subtle parts of the pelvis, for example, the coccyx bone, have over the spine and therefore, the health of the back.
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What is your references in which mentioned that chronic neck pain is the pain that lasted for 3 months.in all artcles that I have seen 6 months is mentioned.
Zahra,
While the original source for the article Chronic Pain is long gone, I have found 3 references for you that utilize or define the term “chronic pain” as pain that lasts 3 months or beyond:
In their Handout on Health: Back Pain - http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/pain/backpain.htm#1, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) defines chronic pain as pain that continues after 3 months.
In a 2005 review of literature on evidence based treatment of chronic pain, the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia utilized a duration of pain lasting 3 months to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of chronic pain management using multidisciplinary approaches. You will need to scroll down to “Multidisciplinary pain programs” to see the information for yourself: http://www.cja-jca.org/cgi/content/full/52/suppl_1/R4
An article written published on the consumer health website, Medicinenet, cites studies on back pain that used a criteria of pain lasting at least 3 months, as chronic back pain. You will need to scroll down in this article to the sub-topic entitled “Studies on Back Pain” to see this: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=78706
I hope this answers your question.
Anne