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How does the ELDOA method help back pain?

I’m often asked, “How does the ELDOA method help back pain?” It’s truly incredible. In all the years that I have been working with clients, this method has helped them the most. They love the results even if, it’s challenging to do.

I am excited to report that I finished my ELDOA 4/5 training and now am officially certified! Learned about how to treat herniations, upper cervical, torsions in the pelvis and more.

People spend millions on Back pain related problems. There are so many people who are plagued with this type of pain and most, if not all is preventable. People get back pain for many reasons. Perhaps from sitting for hours at a computer or not stretching. Standing over patients while performing surgeries or playing a musical instrument for hours. Postural issues such as scoliosis and being unaware of compensations as well.

When our awareness gets thrown off because of pain or accidents then we create compensations in the musculoskeletal system. When we start to heal we need to be aware of the compensations to correct alignment. Correcting and being aware keeps us strong and from further injury.

I became aware of Guy Voyer’s ELDOA method and myofascial stretches over a decade ago. By taking his courses I found myself really intrigued by the science behind it. I saw first hand how the ELDOA method helped people with back pain. From their herniations, disc bulges, scoliosis to slight postural issues. And, felt my own spine hum with joy after doing ELDOA.

I also had the privilege of being treated by Guy Voyer, D.O and learning more from him. To be honest, when I first heard about this method my initial thoughts were somewhat skeptical. How in the world would these weird looking stretches help decompress the spine?!

I wasn’t fully convinced until I started taking Guy Voyer’s courses and implemented ELDOA’s into my own weekly practice. My spine felt so much better after that. Deeply impressed with Guy’s brilliance, his knowledge of the body goes way beyond any I’ve seen. He was ahead of his time. The practitioners I’ve met who have studied with him are also very knowledgeable – impressive. They have a deep passion and drive to help others feel better too.

So grateful to have gained a deeper understanding of the biomechanics of the body since taking so many courses. I’ve also been able to help my clients so much more. ELDOA not only gets them out of pain but there are other results too. For example: getting better quality sleep, increased hydration into the joints and more energy. So now when people ask me, “How does the ELDOA method help back pain” I can explain it a bit better!

What is ELDOA method?

“The ELDOA are postural exercises (LOADS in English) that you can do yourself with the primary goal being to increase the space within a chosen articulation. As the ELDOA ‘create’ space, there is an improvement in joint mechanics, increased blood flow, reduced pressure on the discs, a reduction of pain, spinal disc rehydration, better muscle tone, improved posture, and a sense of well being and awareness……  Designed by French osteopath Guy Voyer DO, the ELDOA (Etirements Longitudinaux avec Decoaptition Osteo-Articulaire utilize myofascial stretching to put tension around a primary lesion making it the center of “separating forces.” The myofascial tension solicits a postural normalization in a specific joint resulting in numerous benefits.

LOADS is the acronym in English of ELDOA meaning Longitudinal Osteo-articular Decoaptation Stretches which are postural self normalizing techniques, which aim at widening the space within a pair of joints. It is possible in one minute a day to relieve disc compression between L5-S1 or even more specifically at the base of the long arm of the left sacroiliac joint.” Legacy Performance and Integrated Wellness Center, LLC

Most back pain issues stem from some type of compression either from an accident, sitting at your computer all day working, staring at your phone texting, all types of bad posture and or congenital scoliosis. So, how then to reverse the compression? Guy Voyer, DO found that the ELDOAs greatly helped and minimized the degree of disc bulges and other back pain issues. He looked at the body as a whole and not just the age old model of one vertebra in relation to the next but rather in terms of the whole of the spine in relation to all of the body.

The Goals of the ELDOA

1. To create more space between the vertebrae.
2. To create more space for the intervertebral disc.
3. To depress the nerve between the vertebrae.
4. To improve proprioception of the vertebral joint segment.
5. To improve proprioception of the Functional Spinal Unit.
6. To hydrate the intervertebral disc.
7. To move all the parts of the annulus fibrosis to stimulate the water intake.

There you go! Now you know the answer to the question, “How does the Eldoa method help back pain” and in case you forget simply think that it ‘creates space’ in the segments of the spine. It is an amazing method that can greatly reduce the amount of surgeries people may have to endure the older they get,  after years of poor postural alignment sitting at a computer, injury from accidents, or extreme exercise athletic endeavors.

If you have back pain and are looking for a cutting edge method to eliminate it I highly recommend trying this. You won’t regret it.

 

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