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Effective Tips for Back Pain Treatment

Back pain can take place cause of several reasons such as nerve damage, arthritis, or movement in the wrong way. Most people struggle with serious back pain and that is why this content got you covered providing simple tips and remedies to cure back pain:

• Relief through hot and cold treatment: Take an ice bag and place it on the area of pain and keep it for 15-20 minutes and continue the process several times in a day. Post two days of pain switch to hot bag and repeat the same process. One can also go with an electrical heating bag. Applying a cooling pad on the affected area collapses the capillaries and decreases blood flow to that area helping it to ease the swelling. Applying a hot bag, on the other hand, makes the tight muscles loosen up thereby increasing circulation and bringing more oxygen to that area.

 

• Hydro-Therapy: Hydrotherapy or water therapy soothes pain by loosening the muscles and loosens the body toxins that produce inflammation and pain. This hydrotherapy has several benefits like when the patient undergoes too much pain instead of exercising on land they can exercise on the water that loosens the bodyweight making the exercise movement easier for the patient. For the ones who seek relief from back pain. The water should be warm enough while exercising to help relax the muscle that acts as a pain relief as well. Taking a hot shower also helps in relieving mild back pains.

 

• Message and Physical Therapy: Researches have shown that message is way effective to cure back pain over acupuncture and chiropractic treatment. Message therapy helps in increased blood circulation, helps reduce soreness in muscles, relaxes muscles that result in muscle movement without pain.

Physical, on the other hand, is a variant technique that uses electrical stimulation, ultrasound technique, massage exercise, and cryotherapy. These help to relieve muscle spasms strengthen muscle, increase flexibility thereby fastening the healing process.

 

• Exercises and shredding body weight: Exercising and losing extra weight are the most effective ways to treat back pain. Overweight puts pressure on the backbone and its muscle making it ache more, so losing extra fat from the body soothes the back pain. Improved posture and balanced muscle shape help reduce back pain.

The next most effective is exercising. Adding cat-cow pose in the stretch routine every morning works wonder in back pain relief. The cat-cow pose is a posture where the back is lifted up like a cat and head is bowed down with tummy tucked in making an arch-shaped body posture. Hold this position for around 30 seconds and try feeling the stretch and enhance the flexibility.

 

• Use various back pain Yoga app: In this high tech era their several apps that guide the patient with yoga which is one great way for back pain relief. Yoga has been helpful for reducing back pain for decades now for all age categories. But following the yoga postures over an app than attending daily yoga classes is way easier and helpful in several ways in today’s buzzy life.

 

• Drinking Green tea and cutting down on salt intake: Green tea has many advantages and consuming green tea is one of the most effective ways of reducing back pain.

Salt, on the other hand, has inflammatory facto that increases the blood pressure level thus causing more pain and muscle swell. So switching to nutrient-filled spices over salt is very effective to reduce back pain.

Apart from all of the back pain relief tips if there’s a sustained back pain issue then consider going to a chiropractor.

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