Can a blocked ear cause severe back ache? It most certainly can. Funnily enough, I have just had two clients suffer exactly this. Everything was going very well, then suddenly both of them blew their back, went for a massage to mend it,only for it to blow again.
All most worrying.
One of the clients has small ear canals, so wax build up is an ongoing problem. One doctor did attempt to syringe her ears, which failed dismally and actually drove the plug of wax deeper into her ear, so she was virtually deaf in it. Her back went into severe spasm on one side, she had it expertly released only for it to immediately tighten up again.
Then the wax plug was succesfully removed and the back let go. A session with me and she is back to normal again.
Why does a blocked ear cause a back to spasm?
The ear drum is right beside the balance organs of the inner ear. So if the ear cannot hear, this has a knock on effect of detuning the balance organs of that ear and making the brain think the head is tilted away from that ear. The head is quite heavy – 10 – 11lbs/4.5-5kg. Now, if we glue a 5 kg ball on top of a long, bendy stick – the spine – but put the ball on not quite straight, as happens with inner ear imbalance – or mechanical misalignment in the neck – the stick keeps bending to one side and all the muscles surrounding the stick/spine struggle to hold things together. Not an issue lying down. But start moving about and some of those straining muscles will go into spasm.
Conversely, one way of profoundly mending chronic pain and dysfunction is to deliberately block one ear with an ear plug so the weaker ear gets ‘tuned up’ and the head realigned. Get it wrong, though – in other words, block up an ear that does not need it and the results are dramatic and not good.
As always with Z-health, just asssuming back ache – or any other chronic pain – is purely due to tight muscles that need stretching and weak muscles that need strengthening leads to circles. Yes, temporary relief is gained, but as time goes by the pain slowly gets worse, and the activity levels slowly, slowly decline.
If we have a blocked ear, it would be wise to make it very high priority to get it cleared before we suddenly end up crippled and crawling into our favoured physical therapy.