Middle Or Upper Back Pain

Middle or upper back pain is a common problem, especially since most of us can be found hunching over computers and cell phones every day. Pain can range from mild discomfort to debilitating, quickly impacting daily work, hobbies, and family life.

Understanding the cause of back pain is the first step to finding lasting pain relief. Most traditional treatments fail to address root cause, and a stiff and aching back can quickly destroy your work and family life. In order to solve your back pain, you’ll soon learn that only a personalized therapy plan can get you there.

 

Discover The Root Cause Of Your Middle or Upper Back Pain —
And The Most Effective Way To Treat It

Contributing Factors And Symptoms

One of the most common causes of neck pain is repetitive stress of the neck muscles, tendons, and ligaments within these structures. Individuals who spend most of their day sitting at work, or doing sedentary activities, have a high-risk factor for developing this condition. The risk for developing neck pain is highest for those who sit in poor posture, with the head in a flexed forward position.

Several other causes of neck pain are also posture related, such as herniated discs, whiplash injuries, and Osteoarthritis (developing from the wear and tear of cartilage and bones). Poor posture puts your cervical spine, disks, and muscles in the neck at risk of injury and damage.

Common Middle And Upper Back Pain Complaints

  • Muscle soreness, tightness, or spasms
  • Pain and tension in neck and across shoulders
  • Trigger point or pain in the shoulder blades
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Stiffness and pain after sitting too long
  • Stenosis
  • Herniated or bulging discs

Traditional Treatments Often Fall Short

Remedies for upper back pain are often limited and provide only short-term relief.  Fortunately, there is another proven method that focuses on the root cause of pain, resulting in lasting relief for both acute and chronic back pain.

Ice, heat, and pain relief creams are topical remedies that might feel good when applied but usually wear off in a very short amount of time. 

Steroid shots and surgeries are isolated to the location of the pain are unsuccessful when the root cause is elsewhere in the body.

General stretching and massage only provide short-term relief since their focus is on the site of the pain and not the root cause.

Over-the-counter and prescription meds only mask the pain temporarily, which often results in symptoms getting worse over time.

Traditional Treatments Usually Fail

Remedies for neck pain are often limited and provide only short-term relief.  Fortunately, there is another proven method that focuses on the root cause, resulting in lasting relief for both acute and chronic neck pain.

Ice, heat, and pain relief creams are topical remedies that might feel good when applied but usually wear off in a very short amount of time. 

General stretching and massage only provide short-term relief since their focus is on the site of the pain and not the root cause.

Over-the-counter and prescription meds only mask the pain temporarily, which often results in symptoms getting worse over time.

Steroid shots and surgeries are isolated to the location of the pain are unsuccessful when the root cause is elsewhere in the body.

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Treat The Root Cause

Middle or Upper Back Pain is usually caused by a posture imbalance somewhere else in the body

Ice, heat, stretching and massage on your back is often temporary because the root cause of the pain is usually an imbalance, muscle weakness, or crookedness of the joints in more places than just your back. Back and spine conditions can be caused by imbalances in the feet and knees, or a twist or elevation of the shoulders or hips. When you have back pain of any kind, it’s important to pinpoint the exact imbalances that are fueling the pain. Only then can the muscle weakness or tightness pulling your spine into a compromised position be corrected.

If the natural sitting or standing alignment of the head, shoulders, hips, knees, and feet are not balanced and level, then the upper back will have to strain to keep you upright. Upper cross syndrome and hunched shoulders are an imbalance of the flexors and extensors of the torso. Rotation or elevation in the shoulders or hips will cause one side of your back to tense up and bear more load than the other. Herniated discs, Osteoarthritis (developing from the wear and tear of cartilage and bones), and stenosis are all spinal problems resulting from poor posture. When the natural position of the feet, hips, or shoulders becomes tilted, twisted, or tipped out of good posture, the muscles hurt, nerves get pinched, and discs are at risk for herniation or calcification. Quite simply, poor posture anywhere in your body puts your upper spine, discs, and back muscles at risk of ongoing injury and damage.

Solve Middle or Upper Back Pain With Posture Therapy

When Your joints are straight, there won't be anything for your nerves, joints, or muscles to complain about

For treatment of middle or upper back pain to be truly effective, it must focus on correcting your posture and straightening the joints from head to toe. The therapy program also needs to be personalized to your specific posture imbalances. Posture Therapy is the only method that provides a personalized whole-body posture correction and pain relief program.

Fortunately, there is a new app available from PTX Therapy. It is the first personal Posture Therapy app with a posture analyzer that can review your posture, consider your personal pains, history, and movement ability, and create a customized program from millions of possibilities. You’ll learn about your posture, then get a unique-to-you program so you can go from crooked to straight, and from pain-ful to pain-free.

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New Therapy Method Can End Your Chronic Pain

Millions of us wake up each day with muscle, joint or back pain. From loosing your job to giving up your favorite activities, chronic pain can put a real damper on your quality of life.

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PTX Therapy is a virtual physical therapy mobile application that combines a revolutionary whole-body posture-focused method, with AI technology that instantly generates on-demand pain relief therapy tailored specifically for you.

Try Free for 7 Days

Download our app!

PTX Therapy is a virtual physical therapy mobile application that combines a revolutionary whole-body posture-focused method, with AI technology that instantly generates on-demand pain relief therapy tailored specifically for you.