Thursday 21 July 2011

Curing Back Pain


Back pain is the most common complain of people of all ages due to today’s lifestyle. Working on computers, inactive lifestyle and obesity add up to stiffness of joints which results in the very common back pain.
Back pain can affect any of the 26 bones connected by muscles, ligaments and discs that make the spine. Back pain can be categorized into Postural syndrome, Derangement syndrome and Dysfunction syndrome. When the postures are not maintained correctly and the soft tissues of the spinal column get stressed due to that, it is called postural syndrome. When there is a slipped disc, the other tissues are tremendously pressurized and this is called derangement syndrome. The shortening of muscles, joints, ligaments and other tissues resulting in limited movement and sporadic back pain is called dysfunction syndrome.
Pain killers and gels are the common weapons against back pain but researchers say that weekly massage help people who suffer from chronic back pain. Massage therapy results in substantial improvement in the condition of back pain victims, but the positive effect tends to disappear in a year, which only shows that the therapy should be continued. There are many kinds of massage like relaxation or structural massage also known as Swedish massage. But it is said that lifestyle changes are often the best treatment. Many believe that for truly chronic pain problems, exercise programs are actually one of the mainstay treatments that will help people function better on a daily basis.
One should first try out the home remedies and give the body sufficient rest rather than swallowing pills.

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