Baber Method

What if you’re an incredibly active fitness professional and accomplished CrossFit athlete but find yourself struggling with chronic back pain for over a year?

What if you tried the best evidence-based exercises for back pain, such as the McGill big three and McKenzie exercises, but still found no relief.

Then you turned to massage, stretching, foam rolling and dry needling. But yet the back pain was still there!

Maybe you begin to rationalize this is what happens to your body as you drift closer to 40 years old.

Or maybe you might get desperate and try something completely different such as a brain-based approach to chronic pain.

Surprisingly many chronic pain issues aren’t actually coming from your body’s hardware, i.e. physical tissues such as the muscle, fascia, bone and tendons.

Many people are often shocked to learn that the longer your pain symptoms persist beyond a normal soft tissue healing window, e.g. 3-6 months, it is very likely that some percentage of your pain symptoms are actually being generated by your brain.

Like a computer that is malfunctioning, the problem can stem from the hardware or the software. Your body’s “software system” i.e. the messages generated by your nervous system, can often be solely responsible for your chronic pain.

At least that’s what the last 30 years of chronic pain research has confirmed.

Blake’s back pain was not coming from a “hardware” issue in the joint it actually stemmed from a “software” issue in his brain.

He had developed a condition known as “cortical inhibition” where his brain had set a “dimmer switch” on the neuron’s responsible for stabilizing his lumbar spine and pelvis.

The cortical inhibition was creating a danger signal in his brain whenever he would load his spine. When the brain senses danger, it generates a pain signal.

This phenomenon is a big player in persistent pain issues that do not respond to rest, rehab, and or allopathic medicine.

Once we removed the cortical inhibition, which was functioning as a neurological “parking brake” on his back muscles his pain was 80% better after 1 week.