Lower Back Pain

Latest Treatments for Lower Back Pain

Lower back pain is most associated with degenerative disc disease, acute injury or lack of core strength. It is the most common cause of chronic pain in adults. There are several causes of lower back pain such as sleep position, core strength, flexibility / range of motion and spinal degenerative disease. Since we spend a lot of time sleeping during which we place a lot of pressure on our back, one must definitely consider the quality and firmness of their mattress as well as sleeping position. If one creates excessive stress on a specific part of the body which in turn causes the backbone to arch in an unnatural way, this will create extra strain on the back muscles which ultimately results in the back pain. However, probably the most important aspect to focus on is, “Are you keeping your core strong enough to support your back?” If you keep a strong core, stay flexible and active, and control your weight, you can compensate for posture and sleeping issues and definitely achieve lower back pain relief.

**UPDATE:  Recently discovered the importance of the entire posterior chain being balanced. This means that your hamstring, gluteus maximus / butt, and lower back must all be strong. If the hamstring and gluteus maximus / butt muscles have emaciated, then this will put a lot of pressure on the lower back. Therefore, make sure you get this checked out and don’t neglect exercises and stretches that focus on the hamstring and butt area for alleviating lower back pain.

Body Weight Exercises And Stretches for Lower Back Pain

If you get on the floor every day and do the following exercises and stretches, you will very likely see a reduction in your lower back pain. If it is overwhelming to you, then simply do a one week experiment to see if it helps with lower back pain relief.

First do the following lower back pain stretches:

Next do the following lower back pain exercises:  plank raises for your core muscles and bridge knee raises for your glut muscles:

Common Reasons Why Lower Back Pain Forms

The most common cure for back pain is to change your sleeping habits, like the posture in which you are sleeping. Among all of the different sleeping postures that people have, there are three major divisions, these three divisions are, sleeping on your back, sleeping face down on your stomach and sleeping on your sides. Depending on which major style your sleeping habits follow, the mattress that you sleep on might be incompatible which will result in your body having to lie in an awkward, unnatural state which is the most probable reason for lower back pain.

This situation can be improved by changing your sleeping posture or by adjusting pillows and other supports to balance out your body so that you do not strain your back muscles while sleeping. Another reason why back pain can occur is because you are not getting enough space to sleep in the bed. If such is indeed the case, then it is high time that you went out and got yourself a new larger bed and a bigger mattress.

If you have decided to buy a new mattress for your lower back pain, there are several different types of mattresses that you should consider and only choose the best from amongst them adjusting to your sleeping posture and comfort. Choose the one where it feels most natural to lie on and stick to that as unless you maintain your natural body posture while sleeping, your body muscles cannot relax properly and as such gives rise to lower back pain.

Medical Treatment for Lower Back Pain

Lower back pain can be classified into two categories. One of these categories is the acute back pain category which is basically referred to the back pain which lasts approximately within the time period of three months or less. This is a temporary form of back pain brought forth by some sort of excess strain on your back or muscle cramp and gets better with time or in some cases, medication is needed to improve the condition.

The second form of lower back pain is the chronic back pain which lasts for a very long period of time and keeps coming back over and over usually after a regular periodic gap or in certain time periods. This is a more intense type of back pain condition which does not have any permanent cure. The best that can be done for these patients is to sedate the patient so as to reduce the pain by as much as possible and ease the patient so that the patient can tolerate the pain. As for treatment, there are only treatments which lessen the pain but not a full cure. What these people require is to always keep their back relaxed and especially while sleeping, they must make sure that their back are not strained or that they are not sleeping in any awkward angle as this will make the pain worse and will introduce further problems.

People with chronic lower back pain are forbidden from carrying out any activity which puts their back under extra pressure such as lifting heavy weight or bending their backs too much. However, it is recommended to work out and do exercises which improve your back muscles, but you have to be careful about just how much effort you are putting into the work out as you will need to adjust the level of your work out so that your back neither gets too extra pressure nor too little pressure.

It is difficult to have lower back pain as we are accustomed to using our back to help us with all straining work. Although most back pains heal, the ones with the chronic back pain have to bear the pain throughout their lifetime; these people can avoid the pain if they lead a careful working condition where they are not putting their back into excess pressure and if they ensure the proper sleeping arrangement so that their body is not subjected to strain while sleeping. Although we do not think much about it, we spend approximately 30% of our lifetime sleeping, so how we sleep is something which everyone with lower back pain should seriously consider.