… The 9 Best Solutions
Looking for lower back pain relief? Join the club … millions of Americans are members of the “back pain club” and they’re paying big time to be members, both in quality of life and expenses.
One classic JAMA study revealed that Americans spent $85.9 billion on back pain relief in the form of surgery, doctor’s visits, MRIs, X-rays and medications in one year alone.[i] That was in 2005. At that time, total estimated expenditures had been steadily rising, increasing 65% (far more rapidly than overall health expenditures) since 1997 among people with spine problems. With all that extra money — we’re talking billions spent — the researchers revealed a peculiar trend: people were still not getting back pain relief!
Not only that, but the number of people with back and neck problems reporting associated issues with mental health, physical functioning, work or school limitations, and social limitations were greater in 2005 than in 1997. In other words, after spending 65% more on back pain relief, many people’s symptoms got worse.
This trend has inevitably continued since, with most reporting dismal results from conventional back pain treatments. On average, people (even those without spine problems) are spending thousands of dollars every year in search of lower back pain relief, but it’s just not working.
The researchers reported a statement that most back pain sufferers know all too well:[ii]
“These data suggest that spine problems are expensive … We did not observe improvements in health outcomes commensurate with the increasing costs over time.”
But today is a new day.
And today we’ve got your ticket out of the back pain club. It’s time to leave that stage of your life behind and join the growing group of those who have achieved lasting lower back pain relief — here’s how …
The 9 Best Lower Back Pain Solutions
1. Fix Your Muscle Imbalances
The reason you have lower back pain is because your body and spine have been pulled out of their normal position and into what we call dysfunctions.
Physical dysfunctions develop over time — the result of poor posture, repetitive stresses, sitting too much, etc. — and are the direct result of imbalances between various muscle groups, i.e. “muscle imbalances.” Your body is then forced to work each day with this dysfunction and eventually this creates a condition, like a herniated disc for example.
Then the condition causes pain and as you know, pain is your body’s way of alerting you to a problem that needs to be fixed …Â and the solution starts at the foundational level with your original muscle imbalances.
With the Lose the Back Pain System, you’ll go through a series of self assessments designed to help you pinpoint which physical dysfunctions you have, then you’ll discover a customized series of corrective exercises, stretches, and self-treatments that are unique to your condition.
Over 64,000 people have used the Lose the Back Pain System to get lower back pain relief and improve their health and well-being.
2. Re-Align and Decompress Your Spine
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, is said to have hung patients with back pain upside down on a ladder. Why? By hanging upside down, you increase the space between your vertebrae, relaxing the pressure on your discs, ligaments and nerve roots. Increasing intra-vertebral space means reducing pressure on the nerve roots, which means less back pain and less likelihood of nerve root damage. Over time, this will not only help realign your spine, it can even improve your posture, which is key to preventing more back problems in the future.
Now that it’s the 21st century, you don’t have to hang upside down a ladder to get these benefits … a high-quality inversion table will do the same thing, only better.
3. Get Rid of Your Trigger Points
If you have aching “knots” in your back, neck or shoulders, you likely have trigger points — concentrated areas of irritated and inflamed muscles and nerves, caused by overuse or injury. When in the “active” phase, trigger points are very painful, although the pain may be “referred pain,” meaning it can be felt in seemingly unrelated parts of your body, and even cause surprising symptoms you do not associate with a “knot” in your muscle, such as headaches and joint pain. Of course, lower back pain is also often felt along with trigger points.
Deep manual pressure applied to trigger points has a dramatic therapeutic effect by quickly eliminating pain. You can go to a massage therapist, chiropractor or physical therapist for this, but you can also do it yourself, in the comfort of your own home.
4. Use Heat Therapeutically
An ordinary heating pad may feel nice while it’s on, but the minute you turn it off the pain returns. A better option is using a special heating pad that uses far-infrared rays (FIR) for deep, healing heat. Along with acting on your tissues thermally, infrared light may have photo-chemical effects, which means photons (light waves) interact directly with individual molecules to induce chemical changes.[iii] One of its primary uses is for treatment of muscle aches and pains, because the heat is capable of penetrating down two to three inches (compared to just 2-3 mm for regular heating pads).
The great thing about Far-Infrared Back Pain Heating Pads is that they’re another option you can use to support healing and lower back pain relief right in your own home, or wherever and whenever you need it most.
5. Use the Synergistic Power of These 12 Anti-Pain Ingredients
Have you heard of bromelain? Turmeric? Bioflavanoids? These are examples of some of the most powerful, safest, and most effective pain relievers in the world. While you can get some of these through your diet (turmeric is often used as a spice in curry, for instance), because of the way your body breaks down these ingredients through food, it’s difficult to get the maximum healing potential. Plus, most people don’t eat perfectly healthy at every meal …
Other compounds that make up the 12 most powerful natural painkillers on the planet are not in foods at all, such as Devil’s Claw and Boswellia Extract. For most, the only way to get them is in supplement form …
But something special happens when you combine all 12 of these anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving ingredients — they work synergistically to fight both inflammation and pain, healing and soothing your lower back pain. This is why we created Heal-n-Soothe. (You can try a bottle today for free.)
6. Natural Pain Cream
You know those popular back pain creams like Icy Hot and BenGay? These contain methyl salicylate and large amounts of menthol, which essentially act as “counterirritants.” While the menthol cools your skin, the methyl salicylate warms it, causing a cooling-warming sensation on your skin that basically only distracts you from the deeper pain beneath. (And did you know that methyl salicylate can be toxic, even deadly, when applied topically to your skin?)
A better option that will do more than just mask your symptoms is called Rub on Relief. This is a broad-spectrum homeopathic pain cream that was formulated to address many of the foundational reasons why you are in pain. Rub on Relief contains a synergistic blend of homeopathic ingredients, each carefully selected to address pain and inflammation from a slightly differently angle. It offers pain relief, and more, naturally, without methyl salicylate or any questionable ingredients of any kind.
7. Address Your Posture Problems
Poor posture is a common cause of chronic lower back pain, and this is true not only in regard to standing but also, and actually more so, to sitting (see below). If you slouch or sit in an uncomfortable position, your muscles and ligaments can become overstretched, fatigued and strained (leading to the muscle imbalances we described earlier).
As much as possible, avoid hunching over your steering wheel or computer, tilting your neck and head forward and down while you text or play handheld video games, or wearing a heavy backpack on one shoulder, causing it to droop out of alignment.
8. Try Not to Sit So Much
Prolonged sitting, especially when you’re slouching, stresses the tissues supporting your spinal column, fatigues your muscles and ultimately can lead to back pain.
Most chairs only add to the problem of extended, sedentary sitting, as they are made in a fixed position that does not allow for much movement. Your body is not meant to stay in one position for long periods of time, which is why experts recommend you get up and stretch at least every 20 minutes or so when you’re seated. Even better, try to limit your sitting time to the shortest length possible, and stand up instead of sitting whenever you can (such as while you’re talking on the phone). For times when you have to sit, look for a chair that facilitates movement, offers maximum lumbar support and supports healthy posture with a no-slouch design.
9. Acupuncture
Acupuncture has been found to be superior to usual care in treating chronic low back pain — especially if you have positive expectations about it.[iv] Using tiny, thin needles inserted into specific “acupoints” on your body, acupuncture helps to stimulate and realign these vital energy points, so that your vital energy, or Qi, flows freely.
It has also been suggested that the insertion and rotation of acupuncture needles may stimulate the production of adenosine, which acts as an anti-inflammatory and a natural painkiller similar to the local anesthetic lidocaine.
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