In this video presentation you will learn a six minute emergency back pain treatment. The following two exercises can push a herniated lumbar disc back into place when your back is in an acute phase with a painful back spasm and it hurts to even tie your shoe. Before you do any stretching or strengthening exercises, you want to first decrease the level of pain. Repeat these two exercises six to eight times throughout the day until you go to bed. One, press up on elbows. Lying your stomach on the floor with legs extended and hands palm down just above the shoulders.

Retract your shoulder blades down and in toward the midline of your spine. Maintaining that position, lift your chest off the floor and extend through the spine from your tailbone to the top of your neck. Allow your back to arch Remain in this position for two to three minutes, keeping the back of your neck long and making sure your front hip bones stay in contact with the floor. To fully extended press up, press your palms into the floor and lift your upper body, keeping hips and pelvis routed to the floor. Extend through the spine from the tailbone to the neck, allowing your back to arch. Hold for two seconds and then slowly lower to the start position for one repetition.

Do 10 repetitions How do you know it's working? You know it's improving when the pain moves out of the leg and or hip region and into the center of the low back. Or if the pains already in the center of your back it becomes more focused into a small point. This is referred to as centralization if you get the paint it's centralize you're effectively pushing the protruding jelly back inside the spinal disc and safely away from the nearby nerves. If at any point while you're doing the press of exercise, you feel radiating pain down your leg, then stop. In this case, you should lie face down on your stomach for five to 10 minutes, and then slowly make an effort to do the press up on elbows and then gradually move into the fully extended press up.

If the pain persists to shoot down the leg or the sciatic leg pain worsens, contact your doctor. Now, if you're unable to lie down where you are, say you're at work, then doing the standing back extension exercise will suffice. To do that stand with your feet shoulder width apart, stretch backwards slowly as far as possible while exhaling for three seconds without bending your knees. Repeat times. So now you know the six minute emergency back pain treatment.