April 2009
5 posts
Chronic Lower Back Pain Relief Tips →
In the past, when prescribing bed rest for chronic lower back pain treatment, doctors used to advise patients to rest until the pain eased. However, it is now known that this advice was not helpful….
Back Pain Relief Tips →
One of the best ways to get some much needed back pain relief is to get plenty of rest - which could mean bed rest. The problem with this type of back pain relief is actually getting into bed in the…
Chronic Low Back Pain →
Chronic Low Back Pain - How to Relieve Acute, Chronic Low Back Pain Sometimes severe and chronic low back pain happens out of the blue “While shaving one day, I bent over the sink and experienced a…
Back Pain Therapy - When To Seek Back Pain Therapy →
Here is one of the most frequently asked questions about back pain therapy, followed by answers from back sufferers who recovered quickly and learned how to prevent relapses of low back pain by…
Eight Myths about Low Back Pain →
So much misinformation plagues people with low back pain that it seems sensible to deal with some facts, all based on results from a recent US survey, that dispel some well-established but unfounded…
March 2009
3 posts
The Low Down On Lower Back Pain →
Low back pain is not considered a disease. It is called by dozens of names, from old-fashioned lumbago to the fashionable facet joint syndrome, from misalignment to lumbar-sacral radiculopathy, from…
Diagnosing Back Pain →
When a doctor is diagnosing your back pain, observation is the first part of examination. That is, the competent practitioner will look at your posture, gait and other movements from the moment you…
Describing Your Back Pain Symptoms →
Getting the doctor to understand your back pain symptoms can make the difference between speedy recovery or long term pain. The overwhelming majority of back pain sufferers who participated in a…
February 2009
9 posts
Interpreting Back Pain Symptoms →
With a doctors view of your back pain symptoms, what they see may not be what you’ve got
A renowned physician at a New York medical centre treated a guy named James. After reviewing his back pain…
Back Pain Symptoms and Diagnosis →
Some diagnoses of all your back pain symptoms are best guesses. They are subject to further diagnostic procedures, or they will be proven or disproved by the passage of time.
Take the case of a…
Back Pain Diagnosis Methods →
CT Scanner: More All-Seeing
The CT (computerized tomography) scan, also known as a CAT (computer assisted tomography) scan, has been widely hailed as a landmark technological breakthrough in…
Yoga Back Pain Exercises →
Here’s some simple back pain exercises that I learnt from my Yoga instructor some time ago. Don’t be fooled by how simple they may seem - hopefully because they are so simple you’ll have no problem…
Lower Back Pain - Herniated Disc →
Results from a recent US survey suggest that people with herniated discs need to be especially careful about exercise, since their rate of exercise-related injury is high. Among the survey…
Low Back Pain →
Back pain is the UK’s leading cause of disability, with 1.1 million people disabled by it. The majority of these people suffer from low back pain. Whether you have recently had an acute case of low…
Simple Back Pain Exercise →
You may find that you want to attempt the Total Body Relaxation back pain exercise (below) twice a day, for the sheer stress relief it brings. As for the other exercises in this section, I suggest…
Back Pain Relief From Self-Help Stress Reduction →
Believe it or not, stress reduction can play a major role in providing lower back pain relief - or any kind of back pain relief for that matter. There is no single best way to reduce stress. But…
Is Nutrition A Viable Back Pain Treatment →
For Osteoarthritis Unfortunately there is no clinical proof that any foods or vitamins used as a back pain treatment can prevent, relieve or cause osteoarthritis. It is true, though, that taking…
January 2009
2 posts
Back Pain Medication →
Pills are the most popular form of treatment when it comes to back pain medication. Yet, according to a US survey, no prescription drug was significantly more useful than a placebo. (A placebo is a…
Shiatsu Massage For Back Pain Relief →
A close relative of acupuncture, Shiatsu massage is applied along meridians, or pathways through which energy is said to flow through the body. Shiatsu may feel a little like ‘bad medicine that must…
November 2008
4 posts
Gravity Inversion To Relieve Back Pain →
Gravity inversion is also called hanging or anti-gravity. ‘Anti-gravity’ is a misnomer. So is “hanging.’ But never mind that. The gravity inversion procedures called anti-gravity and hanging do…
Back Pain Treatment With Foot Orthotics →
Foot orthotics is a type of back pain treatment that doesn’t actually deal with you back directly - it’s more concerned with your legs and feet. This type of back pain treatment involves that very…
Relieve Back Muscle Pain →
Relieve Back Muscle Pain With Cold Therapy (Cryotherapy)
Almost everyone who has back muscle pain can warm up to the idea of soothing sore, aching muscles with heat. But who ever heard of treating…
Sciatica Treatments →
Yesterday I talked about the use of chymopapain as a sciatica treatment, but forgot to include some important negative side effects which you need to be aware of before going down this sciatica…
October 2008
7 posts
Sciatica Treatment Options →
Sciatica treatment options. Chymopapain, an enzyme found in papaya, is sometimes used as a sciatica treatment for pain caused by a herniated disc that would normally require surgery. It was approved…
Back Support Brace and Belts →
A back support brace really provides support for your abdominal muscles. If these muscles aren’t strong enough to keep your tummy in, your spine will not be adequately supported and all kinds of back…
Back Pain Exercises →
Much has been written about lower back pain exercises and the preventive and rehabilitative aspects of specific back exercise for back pain sufferers. In fact, over the last two decades, more than a…
Acupuncture As A Back Pain Therapy →
Acupuncture is an effective back pain therapy and can be practiced using a traditional Chinese approach, inserting fine needles into acupuncture points situated along energy channels called…
Back Pain Treatments →
Only in the field of back care, where the variety of back pain treatments are as extensive as they are bewildering, could yoga, surgery and acupuncture attract roughly equal numbers of individuals…
Lower Back and Hip Pain Relief →
Shiatsu Therapists (also called Acupressure Massage Therapists) can offer a lot of help with lower back and hip pain relief. The massage technique used by Shiatsu massage therapists is often referred…
Relieve Back Pain →
Few complementary therapies are as potentially useful to relieve back pain as kinesiology - the study of the principles and mechanics of movement. Applied kinesiology involves the use of a wide range…
September 2008
2 posts
How To Relieve Back Pain →
To the extent that stretching and strengthening your body is helpful - and most back pain sufferers agree that it is - yoga exercises can be an excellent way to ease back pain. To the extent that…
Simple Exercises For Back Pain Relief
Exercise is very good for you, as as I’m sure you appreciate, but it’s especially good for you for lower back pain treatment, if you comply with some easy guidelines, and do the right workouts. Here’s a list of simple and effective exercises that will probably help relieve back pain and provide some appreciated chronic back pain relief:
Shift and lift: This is an easy exercise...