How To Get Rid Of Back Pain

I have been a qualified medical practitioner for over 40 years. Currently, I have a strong, but non clinical association with thanksdoctor.co.

uk. I am going to discuss the management of back pain. Simple backache can occur from problems with any of the structures mentioned i.

e. a pulled muscle, a stretched ligament, or if I didn't mention this between the vertebra are the disc, these are sort of rubbery fibers and tissues, rather like a washer, which help the mobility between the lumbar vertebrae. What do we do if we have wrenched our back and it is not a repetitive or it is not a prolonged situation.

Well, analgesia is obviously the first option, simple paracetamol, aspirin, if you are not intolerant to that or another class of drugs the non steroid anti-inflammatory drugs can also be very useful bearing in mind that these can help sometimes with quite serious side effects and sometimes people are intolerant to them, but a GP or practice nurse will advise. Hot or cold compresses rarely would be helpful, a little perhaps in the acute phase, lying down with hot water bottle would give some immediate relief. If the back pain tends to be prolonged and only partly responding to the pain killers and rest and being sensible, then physiotherapy can have a very profound effect on helping to ease the muscle stiffness in the muscle spasm.

Occasionally, your GP may prescribe as well as an analgesic or pain killer, he might prescribe a particular drug, which will relieve the spasm. These are a class of drugs that are not advocated to be taken on a regular basis, but over a few days can be very beneficial and that is how to manage back pain.