“The researchers found that only one treatment — the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, like ibuprofen and aspirin — was effective at reducing short-term, or acute, low back pain. Five other treatments had good enough evidence to be considered effective at reducing chronic low back pain. These were exercise; spinal manipulation, like you might receive from a chiropractor; taping the lower back; antidepressants; and the application of a cream that creates a warming sensation. Even so, the benefit was small.”
Well… back pain is a symptom, so there’s not going to be one magic bullet that cures all the different causes. Sure you can use painkillers, but that’s not actually going to fix anything.
I get some serious lower back pains when I wake up and then I let out a huge fart and the pain is gone. Gas pains are real.
I used to have pretty serious lower back pain. Two things helped me out quite a lot, and you don’t need a doctor for either.
1: Exercise the lower back. Pain in the lower back is caused by muscle weakness.
2: Getting a different job. Yea it turns out that sitting at a desk for 12 hours causes hecka bad back pain. Although I’ve heard that sitting in a backless chair or yoga ball can help, since leaning against the back of your chair is what causes the miscle weakness.
Edit: Obviously this is just what worked for me; it might not be effective for people that have unusual causes like injury and stuff.
Back pain exercises must include abs, hamstrings and quad exercises. Really the whole body needs to be in shape to get rid of backpain.
The only thing to actually help a majority of people is a lot of physical therapy.
Well I’ve got some scoliosis so kinda hard to fix that. Sure they can improve it with surgery but it’s not that bad so they won’t do it.
What helps me is some core strength mostly planks and more importantly improving the strength of my hip flexors which causes my pelvis to not tilt anteriorly.
I do warm up exercises; especially before I make tea , or brush my teeth, or sneeze.
It helps a little bit if I sit on the second to last step at the top of some stairs and then lean backwards. 🤷🏻♂️
Sometimes lower back pain can be caused by a cramped muscle. A chiropractor will not help you with that. A good massage might. You can even sometimes use a massage ball against a wall and get the cramp out in a few minutes at almost no cost. Just work it in there gently and press the ball into the pain spot. It should be the good kind of hurt, no more.
Don’t do this with a herniated disc, it’ll just make it worse.
Lower Lumbar Spinal Stenosis here. Worst pain I’ve ever experienced. Worse than 2 heart attacks and open heart surgery. So bad that when I found out Dick Cheney had it, my response was “Oh, that poor man.”
I spent a year on vicodin. The pain was always there, but it was like someone pounding on a door 3 doors down. I knew it was there, but I could ignore it.
Only thing that really gave me relief was taking a gallon of really, really cold water and centering the jug on my lower back.
Some stretches helped, this one felt really good:
When it first happened the doctor asked my pain level and gave me a look when I said “10.” So I explained that I was doing everything I could to not be actively groaning/sobbing/screaming out loud because society reacts poorly to huge dudes behaving like that. That I’d spent most of the drive over screaming in my car. That I’d puked a few times the night before from pain.
I finally summed it up as, “if you tell me now that I’ll still feel like this in two weeks, I will go home and kill myself. Because that’s my estimate of how long I can endure this.”
Ended up getting into a physical therapist and eventually got cortisone shots. Fixed most of it, thank god
Yup. My brain was trying to tell me that my spine was actively broken and that I could feel the broken ends grinding against each other. Just a ridiculous level of pain.
Losing weight and skateboarding!
Agreed, losing skateboarding is crucial
When I ended up in hospital with that, they put something more serious into the infusion bottle. I was seeing pink elephants… but at least the pain was gone.
T3’s are the only thing that work for me. Used to get 30 per year and just used them for the really bad days.
Since I stopped working I don’t neeed them at all, except once from shovelling the driveway.
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