Self-Treating Low Back Pain and Sciatica: A referred pain approach to understanding what is causing your back pain and what you can do to self-treat.

An Orthopedic Acupuncturist's guide to self-treating low back pain and sciatic pain based on clinical experience and knowledge of referred pain patterns caused by trigger points.
Statistics show that 80% of us will eventually have back pain. Practitioners who recognize the musculoskeletal causes of back pain and sciatica believe that most back pain sufferers have muscle shortening and myofascial trigger points in their muscles which refer pain in specific patterns.

One of the most common back...