The Back

The back has many interconnecting structures including bones, joints, muscles, ligaments and tendons.  It's main support structure is the spine, which is made up of 24 separate bones called the vertebrae, including the sacrum and coccyx.  Between the vertebrae are discs that act as shock absorbers and allow the spine to bend.  The spinal cord threads down through the central canal of each vertebra, carrying nerves from your brain to the rest of your body.

Functions of the low back, or lumbar area, include structural support, movement, and protection of certain body tissues.

Pain in the low back can be a result of conditions affecting the bony lumbar spine, discs between the vertebrae, ligaments around the spine and discs, spinal cord and nerves, muscles of the low back, internal organs of the pelvis and abdomen, and the skin covering the lumbar area.

You may experience low back pain as tension, soreness or stiffness in your lower back area.  This pain is often referred to as 'non-specific' back pain and usually improves on its own within a few days.

Back pain may be called either 'acute' or 'chronic' depending on how long your symptoms last.  You may have:

• Acute back pain - lasting less than six weeks
• Sub-acute back pain - lasting six weeks to three months
• Chronic back pain - lasting longer than three months.

Causes of back pain

It's often very difficult to know exactly what causes back pain.  It's usually thought to be related to a strain in one of the interconnecting structures in your back, rather than a nerve problem.  For most people with back pain, there isn't any specific underlying problem or condition that can be identified as the cause of the pain. However, there are a number of factors that can increase your risk of developing back pain, or aggravate it once you have it. These include:

• standing, sitting or bending down for long periods
• lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling loads that are too heavy, or going about these tasks in the wrong way
• having a trip or a fall
• being stressed or anxious
• being overweight
• having poor posture.

There may be other, more serious underlying causes of your back pain, but these are rare. They include:

• fracture - a crack or break in one of the bones in your back
• osteoporosis - a condition where bones become weak, brittle and are more likely to break
• a slipped disc - this is when a disc bulges so far out that it puts pressure on your spinal nerves
• spinal stenosis - a narrowing of the spinal canal through which the spinal cord passes
• spondylolisthesis - when one of your vertebrae slips forward and out of position
• degenerative disc disease - when the discs in your spinal cord gradually become worn down
• osteoarthritis - a wear-and-tear disease affecting the joints between your vertebrae
• rheumatoid arthritis - an inflammatory condition in which your immune system causes inflammation of the lining of your joints and surrounding structures.

Please join us next week for (part 2) as we continue to discuss the back and treatments that may help with lower back pain.

Posted on: 23 June, 2015
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Benefits

Soothing sounds from Tibetan chants to Beethoven symphonies are being given scientific credit for preventing colds, easing labour pains and even boosting anti-ageing hormones. One recent study found that surgery patients who listen to comforting music recovered more quickly and felt less pain than those who did not.

The pure tones generated by the Carillon take healing to a whole new level. The International Journal of Arts Medicine reports that infants in intensive care go home three days sooner, eat better and gain more weight if the staff talk and sing to them.

More doctors are seeing a connection between harmonious sound and health.

Says Mitchell L. Gaynor, Director of Medical Oncology and Integrative Medicine at New York Hospital's cancer-prevention centre. "If we're around very harmonious people and harmonious vibrations and harmonious sounds, we begin to feel better.  I've never found anything more powerful than sound and voice and music to begin to heal and transform every aspect of people's lives.  It can really change people's lives, which is why we use Don Tolman's Carillon at Cornell Medical as well."

By toning or humming with an intention to the tune of the Carillon, the healing effects can be powerful in: 

• Breaking up physical, mental and emotional blockages in the body;
• Entering a heightened state of consciousness and awareness;
• Promoting the natural healing and restorative powers of the body;
• Meditation and clearing the mind of toxic thoughts and emotions. 

What is Vibration/Sound Therapy?

Vibration/Sound Therapy is based on the idea that all illness or disease is characterized by blockage in the channels on some level. When there is a blockage, the organ or system in question stops vibrating at a healthy frequency and thus it results in some kind of illness. Through sound and light, one can break up, dissolve and release these blockages that initiate in our light or etheric body.

Do the chakras, bones and organs in the body possess a different resonant frequency?

Yes, the chakras, bones, and organs in the body all possess a different resonant frequency.

What happens when an organ or part of the body is non-harmonious?

When an organ or part of the body is vibrating out of tune or non-harmoniously, it is called a “dis-ease.” or disease. A body is in a healthy state of being when each cell, each organ creates a resonance that is in harmony with the whole human body.

Is Vibration/Sound Therapy used in the Medical Field?

Yes. Ultrasound has been used extensively in medicine for decades as a diagnostic tool that assists with therapeutic intervention. Ultrasound works by bouncing sound waves off of body parts to create images. It is used to exam organs in the body, checks for blood flow, and detects disease. Urologists use vibrational energy to break up stones in the urinary tract. Lasers, which are amplified light energy, are used frequently in surgery.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanners (M.R.I.) are used by Radiologists. They are powerful diagnostic tools that shift the electrons in the cells. They work by detecting radio frequency signals emitted by excited Hydrogen atoms using energy from an oscillating magnetic field applied at the appropriate resonant frequency.

At the Perth Photo-Medical Centre we use the White Stone Carillon Vibrational Healing Bowl from Don Tolman International.

Made from pure, quartz crystal and crafted to specific harmonic measures, the white stone carillon vibrational healing bowl is a modern rediscovery of an ageless wisdom practised by cultures who understood the power of vibrational healing.

Vibrational healing has long been appreciated for its calming effect, but new research shows it also may have the power to also restore health created by chaos (toxicities and deficiencies) in the body.

The Carillon Bowl is a large quartz crystal crucible based on an original artefact that was found in Egypt.  It is said that this original bowl was used in sacred chambers by priests in order to tune into other states of consciousness, as well as for healing purposes.

This same bowl has now been recreated from 100% pure Grade-A Quartz Crystal. It is set in the "Key of David" (F-sharp/G-Flat) and is used to create balance in the mind and body. The special vibrations of the bowl, combined with the power of your own voice, can be used to promote healing within your mind and body to bring about new states of consciousness, transforming you physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Our Carillon was imported directly from the USA and produced according to Don Tolman's specific instructions.

Although there may be similar products available in the marketplace, we assure you they are NOT the same and NOT made to the exact measures that were anciently used to achieve healing and effective vibrational sound therapy.