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Bounce away from Back Pain

Newest scientific research shows that patients with back pain and neck pain can find relief or can even be cured through movements on an unstable surface - i.e. exercises on a Swiss Ball, a rebounder or on other unstable surfaces. Most forms of back and neck pain can be cured when we retrain our unconscious motor program, the system that tells our muscles at which time and how strong to fire.

The motor program functions a bit like a computer program: We have an input of information, we have the analysis of information and we have an output result. The result is the impulse which goes to our muscles and tells them how to fire: which muscle, when, how much.

The input of information happens through millions of proprioceptors which are all over our body, for instance in the soles of our feet or in tiny little muscles along the spine. These "input devices" tell our body its position in relation to the surrounding space. Our brain receives this information, analyzes it and tells the muscles how to respond. In the majority of back and neck pain patients the motor program is disturbed and as a consequence, they experience relief when this program is restored.

Lilianne Moussa, physiotherapist at a Kinatex sports medicine and physiotherapy clinic in Montreal says "For patients who have sustained lower-limb injuries, rebounders are excellent tools for retraining them in proprioception. That's because the mat of a rebounder is less stable than the ground and therefore requires better control of your equilibrium to stand on without toppling over."

Well known expert in this field, Dr. Malik Slosberg, D.C., M.S. compiled the latest scientific studies concerning back and neck pain in his book "Validating Chiropractic". In this book we find numerous studies that show the great results in conquering back/neck pain by training the unconscious motor program through exercising on unstable surface.

Through such exercise, our proprioceptors regain the necessary information for having our large muscles fire correctly. A great source of information is also the book "The Back Pain Revolution" by Dr. Waddell, M.D.

Rebounders are ideal tools to train the unconsious motor programs, especially the soft bouncing ones like the bunggee band rebounders from Bellicon.

Definition of Proprioception (Wikipedia)