Back pain is one of the most common complaints we see at our clinic — and for good reason. Whether it’s a dull ache after a long day, stiffness getting out of bed, or sharp twinges with movement, back pain can seriously limit your life.
What most people don’t realise is that the pain often isn’t coming from the spine itself — it’s caused by tight, overloaded muscles. But here’s the catch: those muscles aren’t tight because you’re inflexible or didn’t stretch enough. They’re tight because your body told them to tighten.
Let me explain.
Your nervous system constantly monitors your environment and your body, and one of its key roles is keeping you safe. When it senses instability, injury, or stress, it uses protective reflexes to tighten muscles — especially around the spine — as a way to brace and protect the area.
This reflex shortening of muscle fibres reduces their length, making you feel tight, stiff, and often sore. But here’s the important part: these reflexes can’t be stretched away. In fact, trying to stretch a reflexively tight muscle often creates more tension or pain. You’re not dealing with a mechanical problem — you’re dealing with a neurological one.
Stretching may feel good in the moment, but it’s a temporary fix at best. When muscles are tight due to protective reflexes, they’ll return to that shortened state as soon as you finish stretching. That’s because the nervous system is still sending the same signals.
To truly solve the problem, you need to reset the nervous system’s control over the muscles.
At our clinic, we take a completely different approach to back pain. Instead of chasing symptoms or relying on short-term relief, we use gentle but powerful techniques that:
Reset muscle length by clearing protective reflexes.
Using non-force muscle balancing, acupressure (Jin Shin Jyutsu), and other hands-on methods, we restore natural muscle tone by telling the nervous system it’s safe to let go.
Rebalance the spine and joints.
When muscles around the spine return to normal tone, we gently align the body so that everything moves as it should. This allows your body to heal and function without tension or compensation.
Address the underlying health drivers.
Sometimes poor sleep, stress, gut issues, or old injuries keep your nervous system in a state of alert. We assess and treat these too, because lasting results require a body that’s calm, balanced, and resilient.
Our clients are often amazed at how quickly things shift when we stop fighting the muscles and start working with the body. Pain eases, movement returns, and people start feeling like themselves again — often within just a few sessions.
If you’ve been stuck in a cycle of stretching, massaging, or cracking your back — and nothing’s really changed — it’s time to try a different approach.
Book a session and discover how quickly your body can change when you give it the right support.
