Steve Lockhart
PAIN EXPERT
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CHRONIC PAIN, BACK PAIN, SCIATICA & FATIGUE Expert

Steve Lockhart Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- diagnosing and treating pain.
- Best Sellers
- The Bad Back Book, Self Treatment Guide for Back Pain and Sciatica Sufferers. How To Fix Pain Using Massage and Bodywork.
- Career Focus
- Therapist and educator via online course for therapists and self treatment for pain sufferers.
Steve Lockhart has worked as an SLM practitioner (a form of accupressure and deep-tissue massage) since 1988, specialising in the treatment of chronic pain and injury. His new patients are usually referred by other satisfied patients and this has sustained his busy practice for over two decades. He has worked closely with many elite and A list athletes treating Iron Men and Women; World Silver Medallist rowers; UK Premier League soccer stars; World Class Triathletes; Commonwealth Games Gold Medallists and World Champion boxers.
Confronting some of the most complex injury problems presented by athletes and other everyday people has give Steve an excellent understanding of the body and how it responds to a variety of conditions and lifestyles. Steve's success is undoubtedly as a result of his understanding of the body at a physical level and his ability to come up with the best treatment for any given pain. His treatments provide faster, more effective and lasting results than can be achieved with any other form of therapy.
With an Associate Diploma in Health Science, Steve is the author of 'THE BAD BACK BOOK' and the 'DO IT YOURSELF GUIDE FOR SCIATICA & BACK PAIN SUFFERERS'. Both books were written to empower pain sufferers to manage and treat their own pain and assist with their rehabilitation. As word of his successful techniques spread in the early 90's, Steve focused on developing an SLM bodywork programme, founded in 1993, and has since trained therapists all over the world in its theory, techniques and application.
Steve has gained an unparalleled reputation for treating pain and chronic fatigue syndrome and was labelled the "Mr Fix-it man" by a Sun Herald newspaper article in July 2000. In 2002 The Daily Telegraph described his treatments as 'healing methods which provide the answer to stubborn problems of the chronically distressed'.
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Why Exercise Doesn't Fix Back Pain.
The normal approach people take when trying to fix back pain is to prescribe a series of stretching and exercises. I want to go through some of the reasons why in my opinion exercises don’t work as intended either.
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The Unknown Cause of Back Pain and Sciatica
There are many misleading reasons people are given as causes for their back pain or sciatica, which, rather than providing a solution, just leave the pain sufferer more confused and frustrated. However, the reality is that these reasons don't uncover the underlying cause or source of back pain and sciatica because they don't go back far enough. Even when a bulging disc, muscle spasm or strained ligament is the cause, explanations are not given for what caused the ligament to be strained, the disc to bulge, or what caused the muscle to go into spasm in the first place.
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***Instant Relief From Back Pain and Sciatica
Finding a solution to back pain or sciatica can be a real dilemma for many people. Often the conventional treatments readily available don’t provide the relief you need and pretty soon the pain starts to impact on your lifestyle to the point where you can’t function normally and get through all the things you have to do in a day without debilitating back Pain or worse, sciatic nerve pain down the leg.
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***Diet and its Role in Back Pain
Back pain is largely a result of stress that builds in the body bringing physical imbalances into play and causing irritation to nerves, joints, muscles or ligaments. Stress has three main origins, physical, chemical and emotional so a poor diet which upsets the chemical balance has the potential to cause or heighten a person’s back pain.
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***Stretching – Is it causing you long term damage?
For as long as I can remember people have been told to stretch as a warm up or warm down to prevent injuries and for just as long physiotherapists have been using stretching, along with exercises, as the basis for their treatment of painful conditions. Everyone has jumped on the band wagon from doctors to personal trainers and most therapists and whenever someone complains of feeling tight or sore there are invariable asked ‘have you been doing enough stretching’ or ‘I know a good stretch that will help you’.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Steve Lockhart
Pain does not come from the symptoms you feel but rather from pressure building up in a joint because a body gets out of balance.
Contacting Steve Lockhart
Contact Steve Lockhart with questions on Back Pain and Sciatica by posting in the back pain forum www.backpain.com.au/forum
Contact regarding training as a pain and injury therapist www.lea massage.com.au/forum
Re other matters: info@myotherapy.com.au
How to get started
My website www.backpain.com.au is comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to diagnose and treat back pain or sciatica. Plus get access to a free video that demonstrates a great technique for getting instant pain relief at home. Also where you can ask questions on how best to deal with their particular case via a free back pain forum.
www.lea massage.com.au is an online resource for therapists, or those wishing to become therapists, where they can find out how they can learn the fastest and most effective way of diagnosing and treating pain in the body by completing a 12 month online training program with me.
www.myotherapy.com.au is an online resource for the hugely successful SLM Bodywork Programme, which has been running since 1993.
Other highlights
Bioflex Back Pain Inversion Machine www.backpain.com.au/inversion