Lower Back Stress Fracture In Teenage Football Player Helped In Weeks

There is nothing I don’t like more than a kid who can’t play their sport due to injury or some type of dysfunction happening in the body.

Sports are so important for young kids. They teach them lessons, they learn to be teammates and work together, and they learn how to push themselves.

And when they can’t play, it really gets under my skin.

This early teenage football player was suffering from an injured back for a year before they came to my office.

He had been diagnosed with stress fractures, so the plan was to rest and heal.

The problem was, every time he came back to play after a rest, the process would start all over again, and his back would get injured.

He had been to physical therapists, MD’s, and chiropractors with no relief and no answers.

I took a different approach.

This is where it all starts.

The neurology. If the brain is not effectively communicating with the muscles, no amount of exercises or rehab are going to do anything.

This comes first.

All of them were in a neurologically inhibited (weak) state.

So I moved on and tested more muscles throughout his body. Legs, arms, etc. More weakness. In fact, every single muscle I tested was weak.

No wonder he was having such longstanding problems and his body couldn’t heal.

Something major was shutting his body off.

His muscles were no longer absorbing shock. And when you can’t absorb shock, all the forces from running, jumping, twisting, etc. get transferred directly to the connective tissues, tendons, ligaments and bone.

And to further clarify, this weakness has NOTHING to do with exercise. You cannot exercise this problem away.

You cannot attempt to make your muscles stronger to fix it whether in the gym or in a rehab setting.

This is a wiring problem. Or a short circuit. Something is disturbing the body to the point where it will not contract the muscles appropriately.

Now to figure out what that was.

I don’t do therapies. I believe the body knows how to heal, we just need to help it figure out the reasons why it can’t.

So, I continued with the exam.

Cranial bones move.

Your skull is not one solid, fused bone. It’s made up of 26 bones that all have a unique motion.

This motion is vital for a properly functioning body. It’s one of the most common problems I see with my patients who have been everywhere with no answers.

Check out this young boy with 10 years of back pain.

And this woman with 10 years of back pain.

Or this gymnast with chronic back pain.

Okay, now to the solutions to this young boys problem.

Step one was to get the lower dental retainer removed. He would never heal with that in. I have story after story on this. Just take a look at the Results page and you will see just some of them.

With that retainer in the cranial bones are permanently jammed 24/7.

It’s that little wire the orthodontists want to put behind the teeth. They glue it in place.

Step two was to start adjusting his cranial bones. Freeing them up so his brain could properly communicate to the rest of his body.

Sometimes if the retainer hasn’t done too much damage yet, removing it is all that is needed. But, most of the time a series of cranial adjustments is necessary to restore the proper motion.

Within just a week or two he was drastically better.

Another week after that and he was starting to practice. He went on to get in a  few games toward the end of the season (the season was already well underway by the time he saw me).

To this day he doesn’t have any back pain.

And the reason why is because his body could now deal with the shock and forces of everyday life along with the increased forces of sports.

His muscles were turning on appropriately and automatically. Protecting him. This is how it should be.

We don’t need to “retrain” the muscles. They already know what to do. We just need to figure out WHY they aren’t working how they should.

As long as that retainer was in his mouth and his cranial bones were jammed, he would have continued to have problems.

Most likely he would be an adult with a “bad back”. Just like this woman. And here is a guy with chronic back pain due to a slew of nasty head injuries of the years.

Remember, if you can get to the root of the problem the body will heal itself.

Here is another case of a girl with lower leg bones becoming osteoporotic and the fix was also her cranial bones. If much more time had gone by this was going to be really serious.

Her bones were deteriorating.

As always, the first step if figuring out the correct diagnosis…..