The Lower Back Pain Pandemic: A Personal Message from JANMI

Dear reader,

If you’re reading this while hunched over your phone or shifting uncomfortably in your chair with that familiar dull ache in your lower back… pause for a moment. This isn’t just another wellness blog.

It’s a message from me,Paulius Jurasius, soft tissue therapist, founder of JANMI, and someone who has spent the past 14 years listening carefully to what pain is trying to say.

And today, I need to tell you something that’s been weighing on me:

We are quietly entering a global pandemic of lower back pain. And it’s not just numbers—it’s stories. It’s people. It’s you.

What Went Wrong?

Let’s rewind the human story a little. Imagine a barefoot Homo sapiens, moving through forests, bending to gather herbs, twisting to look for prey, climbing over rocks, sleeping on the ground, squatting beside the fire.

That’s your spine’s natural habitat.

Now… fast forward to today.We sit—on trains, in cars, at desks, on sofas. We slouch over screens, strain to read texts, collapse into beds shaped like marshmallows. Our ancestors lived with the land. We live on our chairs.

The result?A lower back no longer supported by motion, strength, or natural rhythm. Instead, it’s compressed, locked, overstretched, and forgotten—until it starts shouting for help.

And it is shouting.

Some Hard Truths

The average person sits over 10 hours a day.
Sedentary behaviour is now considered the new smoking.
Most people lose deep core engagement by age 30.
80% of adults will experience lower back pain in their lifetime.

And yet, we treat it with short-term solutions: heat packs, painkillers, a random yoga stretch from YouTube.

But what if the problem isn’t just in the spine?

What if it’s in our way of life?

The JANMI Perspective: Lower Back Pain as a Wake-Up Call

At my clinic here in Marylebone, I don’t just “treat backs.”I listen to them.

Because pain, especially chronic lower back pain, isn’t just mechanical. It’s emotional. It’s ancestral. It’s your body asking to reconnect—with itself, and with the natural movements it was built for.

I call this the Postural Disconnect—when muscles, fascia, joints, breath, and intention no longer talk to each other.

And it’s everywhere.

The Main Triggers We See at JANMI

At JANMI, we work with hundreds of clients suffering from recurring or stubborn lower back pain. Here are the usual suspects:

1. Prolonged Sitting

This shuts down the glutes, shortens the hip flexors, and overburdens the lumbar spine.

2. Core Disconnection

We’re not talking six-pack abs. We mean the deep stabilisers—like the transversus abdominis—going completely offline.

3. Fascial Tension in the QL and Psoas

These hidden muscles often act as “emergency brakes” when the body feels unsafe or unstable.

4. Over-Stretched Lumbar Fascia

Ironically, people who “stretch the back” often make it worse by overstretching what’s already braced.

5. Nervous System Lockdown

Stress holds your back hostage. Tight breathing, clenched jaws, shallow posture—this all plays into chronic tension.

So What’s the Solution?

I don’t believe in gimmicks. I believe in resetting the system.

At JANMI, we combine three powerful hands-on approaches in what we call Integrated Therapy Sessions:

Sports Massage to restore blood flow and muscle health
Trigger Point Therapy to unlock hidden knots causing radiating pain
Myofascial Release to free the connective tissue system

A Glimpse from the JANMI Clinic

Let me tell you about David, a 38-year-old banker from Marylebone. “I feel like a broken folding chair,” he said on his first visit. Lower back pain for 7 years, tried osteopaths, chiropractors, stretches, nothing stuck.

After three sessions, focusing on deep QL release, glute retraining, and nervous system calming?

His words:"Paulius, it’s like I’ve got my original back again. I didn’t realise how numb I’d been until now."

A Nature-Inspired Approach

Why does JANMI work so well?

Because it’s not just about muscles. It’s about movement, rhythm, and reawakening the natural language of your body.

I spend time each day training outdoors—barefoot, using trees, stones, breath, and silence to sharpen my hands and senses. That energy flows directly into my sessions.

JANMI isn’t clinical—it’s instinctive.Not sterile—but earthy, ancient, and aware.

Five Things You Can Do Today

Stand up every 30 minutesEven 2 minutes of movement changes your circulation and nervous system.
Re-learn how to breatheDeep belly breathing activates your core reflexively.
Stop overstretching the backMobilise your hips, activate your glutes, strengthen your obliques.
Get outsideMovement in natural terrain is better than any treadmill.
Book a JANMI sessionSometimes, your body needs help remembering how to move well.

Why JANMI in Marylebone?

There are many places offering massages.JANMI offers a reset.

Here in Central London, in a peaceful corner of Marylebone, we’re not offering a product—we’re inviting you into a healing experience shaped by years of learning, movement, and connection to nature.