Low back pain is an epidemic. 80% of Americans will suffer from low back pain at some point in their life, and it’s estimated that 31 million Americans are suffering from pain right now [5]. Heck, you might be one of them!
According to the American Chiropractic Association, low back problems are the number one cause of disability worldwide [11].
Most people will try to mask the pain by taking anti-inflammatories. Or much worse, they’ll pop dangerous pain pills to hide the agony they are in. This is part of the reason there is such a problem with opioids in the US right now. So many people could treat their back pain through stretching and don’t even realize it.
Joint pain can dramatically decrease the quality of your life [8], especially when it stops you from exercising, playing with your children, or worst of all, it makes it hard to fall asleep at night.
But there’s good news! It doesn’t have to be this way.
You can get relief from your back or knee pain in as little as 6 minutes!
A study, published in the Annals Of Internal Medicine [11], found that simple, gentle stretching (like you’ll use in the D.I.C.E method) is the best possible way to treat back pain.
This study took 320 participants from the Boston area, all of whom had back pain.
One section of the volunteers completed a 12-week program of simple stretches, to be performed just once per week.