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We empower people with chronic low back pain & sciatica to reclaim the active life they love.

08/19/2025

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❌ Stress makes your muscles tight and overprotective (more pain)
❌ Stress increases inflammation (more pain)
❌ Stress increases fear, reduces physical activity, then leads to deconditioning (more pain)
❌ Stress makes us ruminate on, magnify, and catastrophize the pain (=more pain)
✅ Let's regulate your nervous system
✅ Let's build confidence in your body
✅ Let's get you a solid plan
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08/05/2025

Fear of pain is worse than pain itself.
If you avoid bending, you create a self-fulfilling prophecy where you tweak your back any time you try to bend, simply because you never practice it.
Move past the outdated myths. Overcome the fear of bending.
If you have low back pain or sciatica, graded exposure to full body mobility and strength is key.
DM me if you'd like our help.

08/02/2025

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What's the best way to do myofascial release for back pain or sciatica?
If I had a dime for every person who told me they had "muscle knots" or "adhesions" or "imbalances" or "tightness"...
First - your muscles are NOT in "knots"... That's a made-up thing.
You don't have to "release" anything. Not adhesions, not scar tissue... that's all an outdated myth.
Second - What does myofascial release (AKA self massage) actually DO?
✅ Short-term pain relief
✅ Short-term improvements in mobility
✅ Relaxation: Get you out of your fight/flight response (If done correctly)
Third - HOW should you do it?
➡️ Pick any spot that feels good
➡️ Don't worry about "releasing" your "imbalances" (that's not a real thing)
➡️ Breathe deeply and peacefully while doing it
➡️ Do NOT cause so much pain during self-massage that you tighten up. This triggers your fight/flight response, which is the opposite of what we're going for.
➡️ If it's relaxing, you're doing it right
Want a guided tutorial on self-myofascial release?
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07/28/2025

🧘Mindful Minute For Chronic Pain: Box Breathing🧘
Chronic pain causes us to get stuck in a fear based fight or flight response.
We get overprotective. We guard. We limit our activities.
The body becomes tense and rigid. This creates more pain.
Remember to pause and learn to relax once in a while.
Box breathing is one of my favorite simple ways to break the fear-pain-stress cycle.
Save for when you need it!

07/26/2025

Torture, or Treatment? 😳
Chronic pain makes us desperate, but I'm telling you, there's a much less painful way to recover from chronic low back pain or sciatica.
Lifestyle change. Graded exercise. Taking care of your mental health.
It takes work, but it works.

07/24/2025

Share with someone who has a spine ✅
You've got a nice spine! Even if it's a little weird.
Even if you have disc degeneration, disc herniations, low back pain, and sciatica.
Even if you have too much or too little curvature, a pelvic tilt, or a short leg.
Guess what? So does everyone.
Rehab isn't about fear mongering, it's about lifestyle change.
Share with someone who has a spine ✅

06/09/2025

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Exercise for chronic back pain and sciatica isn't that complicated.
It's NOT about:
❌ Fixing alignment
❌ "Correcting" imbalances
❌ Core stability
Real exercise-based rehab for chronic low back pain and sciatica is much simpler.
We need to focus on:
✅ Slow & steady graded exposure
✅ Full body functional movements
✅ Goal oriented approach
✅ Mobility AND strength
✅ Make sure to PROGRESS to gain real strength!
If you want to see exactly how to apply this principle with real case examples and full explanations....
👇 Comment "Masterclass" and I'll send you the full free training.

06/02/2025

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5 Hip Mobility Exercises For Back Pain & Sciatica
NOTE: Chronic pain is more complex than simply improving hip mobility alone!
A complete solution requires lifestyle change, and full body physical fitness using graded exposure.
That said - hip mobility can be a useful PART of rehab.
👇 Drop “MASTERCLASS” below and I’ll send you the free comprehensive training on how to fix chronic back pain & sciatica.

01/15/2025

Rehab isn't complicated. I'm not doing any core exercises, hip mobility, or fancy corrective exercises. Just calming things down a bit and then building back up. Easy. Effective.
1) I didn't panic. I know I'm going to bounce back quickly.
2) Gentle breathing to calm my over-protective body down, and get some gentle movement into the back, preventing the muscles from seizing up.
3) Reintroduce gentle movements in all directions within tolerance.
4) Ease off heavy lifting but I didn't stop altogether, just did lighter weight. I'll gradually work back to my normal weight over the next week and it'll be fine.
Rehab isn't complicated. I'm not doing any core exercises, hip mobility, or fancy corrective exercises. Just calming things down a bit then building back up. Easy. Effective.
If you want our help with your own rehab, comment "masterclass".

10/10/2024

Comment "302" and I'll send you the full youtube video on pain science!
Pain cannot exist in a tissue. A disc herniation does not have consciousness, so pain literally cannot exist in a tissue. 🧠
Pain can only become conscious once it reaches the brain. But if we want to take it a step further, this is where things get weird. 🌟
Even consciousness doesn't happen in the brain alone. If we have a brain with no inputs—no sight, sound, hearing, smell, touch, no sensory input—and it also has 0 memories, there's nothing to draw on. 🚫
There's no context, absolutely nothing. There's debatably no consciousness and therefore no pain. 🌍
If you have chronic low back pain or sciatica and need help, make sure to follow the channel.
Comment "302" and I'll send you the full youtube video on pain science!

09/27/2023

✅ Watch the MASTERCLASS on Low Back Pain & Sciatica.
https://www.shapeshiftwellness.com/LBP-masterclass.
Meditation is great, but it's not magic.
If you have chronic low back pain or sciatica, meditation absolutely should be a PART of your rehab to reduce stress, which has a big impact on your muscles, joints, nervous system, and systemic inflammation.
BUT - you can't just meditate your way out of chronic low back pain and sciatica!
You also need graded exposure to exercise, good sleep and food, and solid recovery!
Yes, stress makes pain worse. No, stress ALONE is not the ONE AND ONLY cause of pain! Zoom out. Think bigger. What's the whole picture?

08/10/2023

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