When you visit your doctor for the first time about your back pain, there are several simple tests he or she will do. The doctor wants to find out if you have any spine problems or if the pain is coming from the muscles surrounding the spine. Diagnosing the source of back pain [...]
Source:What Kind of Test is That?
The world doesn’t stop for back pain. That means you may get a few days off because of back pain, but eventually you have to go to work. The best thing to do is learn some office moves and positions that will keep your spine muscles from tightening and your spine from compressing. [...]
Source:It Hurts When I Work
Most back pain can be handled with traditional home treatments. But one problem deserves immediate attention by a physician. If you can’t control your bowels or bladder, you need to see a doctor right away. Loss of control can indicate something is compressing the nerves in your lower spine. I don’t [...]
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It seems like every time I watch the news concerning healthy living updates I hear the acronym MRI. It’s treated in people’s mind like it’s an X-ray, but it really is something completely different. People with back pain often get an MRI when the doctor is trying to figure out what’s causing [...]
Source:An MRI Anyone?
One of the treatments for back pain is called a trigger point injection. A trigger point injection is where anesthetic is injected into muscles to relieve back pain. There can be more than one injection administered at a time. The point of the anesthetic is to deaden the area surrounding [...]
I like to try alternative forms of back pain treatment whenever possible. Sometimes, the familiar stand-bys like analgesics or ice packs just don’t do the job of relieving the back pain. Before I’d even consider having surgery, I’d look into all forms of treatment including acupuncture.
Acupuncture has been around for over 5,000 years. [...]
Getting a diagnosis of degenerative disc disease can be scary. It sounds so awful in several ways. Degenerative means a steady decline and disc disease indicates something abnormal is happening to your back. In essence, degenerative disc disease is when the disc between vertebrae starts drying out. If it gets [...]
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There’s a back problem that is most frequently seen in people who are athletically active in their teenage years. It’s called spondylolisthesis which is where one vertebrae slips over another. It’s often the result of a spinal crack or defect, but is common in people who have been ballet dancers or football players [...]
Source:Because I Was an Athlete
I can be so hard to get a full night’s sleep with back pain. As expected, it hurts so much it becomes impossible to stay asleep even if you manage to fall asleep. Of course, trying to get out of bed with back pain just makes the whole experience worse.
There are [...]
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Deciding whether to have back surgery can be a major decision. Everyone’s heard the war stories about surgeries gone wrong or surgeries that don’t result in less back pain. But the fact is that surgery is probably one of the best choices for permanent pain reduction when it’s clear what is causing the [...]
Source:Okay, I’ve Chosen Surgery
