Back Pain

Many chronic BACK PAINS and SCIATICA can be corrected by learning The Vance Stance® way of standing in gravity, not behind it. This will give you the flexibility you need, at the same time lengthening your hamstrings and reducing the curvature in your back.

The chief cause of LOW BACK PAIN is usually compression, shortening of the muscles at the small of the back. This can also lead to nerve pressure, from this compacting in the area. The way out of pain is to change your usual posture, using The Vance Stance and its 34 Movements.

One of the most effective Movements is called Up Against the Wall (Page 96-97, The Vance Stance) which can be download here. 

In this exercise, you are creating a new space by lifting your upper body off the offended area, releasing the causes of pain. Learning to flatten and lengthen this area has given relief to thousands of clients.

After doing this exercise, you will be able to start flattening out the too-short area, and begin to stand in The Stance with greater ease. The tendency of the back to collapse in on itself will gradually be replaced by the new strength of alignment, not compression.

Other exercises in The Vance Stance that will help include:

• The Hang-Over (page 86-87), which deepens your ability to bend at the leg joints, and stretch out the back and spine.
• Leg on Railing (page 112-113), which changes the tightness at your legs and entire back, and the connection between the two, easing the way to standing tall and erect.
• Wrists On Railing (page 114-115), which opens your shoulder joints, and allow the back to contract, one of the two ways it must go to change.
• Sitting Forward Bend (page 136-137), which provides deep release in the back and spine, from top to bottom.