| This article is about a cause of back pain which | | | | the side to keep it from bending so much and |
| most people, including doctors, don't understand. | | | | press down on the top again. Feel how much |
| This back pain cause is not disease such as | | | | stronger the twig is now. |
| cancer or arthritis. It is not injury such as falling | | | | You can see an example of this principle applied in |
| off a ladder. Also, it is not a mentally caused | | | | daily life by looking at a very tall television |
| pain...it is a very real pain. | | | | transmission tower. Typically these towers have |
| This back pain is caused by incorrect use of | | | | wires, called guy wires, going from the middle |
| voluntary muscles. Voluntary muscles are muscles | | | | (often from quarter, half and three quarter points |
| you can control. Do this. Lift your arm. There you | | | | or more) down to the ground. These guy wires |
| used voluntary muscles. | | | | keep the tower from bending in the middle, so it |
| You can cause pain by using, or not using, your | | | | can carry a load to a much greater height. |
| voluntary muscles incorrectly. By using one hand | | | | The spine in the lower back of the human body |
| to bend the fingers of your other hand backward | | | | has voluntary muscles which can act like guy |
| you can cause pain. This is an example of | | | | wires to keep the spine from bending from side |
| incorrectly using voluntary muscles and causing | | | | to side. Looking in the Doctor's Bible, "Gray's |
| pain. | | | | Anatomy", you can see these muscles in one of |
| This discovery, called Denlinger's Discovery(TM), is | | | | the drawings looking at the rear of the body. |
| about another cause of pain throughout the | | | | These muscles are called "quadratus lumborum" |
| human body and how to fix it. Denlinger's | | | | (they are shown in a posterior view of the back |
| Discovery came about by applying engineering | | | | and described in the section on Deep Muscles of |
| basics to the human body. Using these engineering | | | | the Abdomen). Correctly using these voluntary |
| basics one can also increase the load carrying | | | | guy-wire-type muscles per Euler's formulas could |
| capability of the body. In this article we'll only look | | | | fix a problem called scoliosis. Currently doctors use |
| at one function, of several functions, of the back. | | | | braces and even surgery to correct scoliosis. As |
| In 1759 a Switzerland born scientist named | | | | long as the muscles and nerves are in place and |
| Leonardo Euler (1707-1783) developed the first, | | | | not damaged and the person is willing and able to |
| most basic formulas about the relationship of the | | | | learn how to use them and s/he then trains his or |
| height to the thickness of a column. A summary | | | | her guy-wire-type muscles the scoliosis problem |
| of this formula is that the thinner a column or | | | | could be fixed by correct use of voluntary |
| post, as compared to its height, the more likely it | | | | muscles. |
| will fail (ie, break) by bending rather than by | | | | The same basic principle of preventing too much |
| crushing. Also, if the column has supports in the | | | | bending, using other muscles, can be applied in |
| middle to keep it from bending, it will be able to | | | | another direction to strengthen the spine by |
| carry a much heavier load. | | | | preventing too much curve forward and |
| Here's an experiment you can do. get a long, | | | | backward. There are other engineering basics |
| skinny twig from a tree or bush. Stand it up on a | | | | which can be applied to the back and other parts |
| table vertically and push down on the top with a | | | | of the human body which will be covered in other |
| finger. Feel how easily it bends. If you push too | | | | articles. |
| hard it will break. Next, place your other hand on | | | | |