Back Pain Relief Products: What Truly Works?
BACK PAIN RELIEF PRODUCTS
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Check out any home shopping channel and you are likely to see lengthy infomercials on the latest back pain relief products. In 2009 alone, you have happy customers attesting to the effectiveness of a certain device or exercise equipments in relieving neck, back and sciatica pain. With all these satisfied customers, the temptation is strong to grab your credit card and order that back pain relief product during the first 10 minutes to avail of special discounts, so that you could even order more back pain relief devices. Before you know it, you’ve maxed out your card and you’re stuck with back pain relief equipment you have absolutely no clue as to how to use.
Here is a list of the most common lower back pain relief products that are being sold on TV and the Internet and what they do. Hopefully, this simple guide will help you in choosing the right home remedies for back pain.
BACK SUPPORT DEVICES
Back cushions: These are specialized cushions that are contoured to the natural shape of the back in order to provide support and maintain a correct posture while sitting in a chair or driving in a car.
Back Braces: Back braces provide pain relief by compressing the affected area and correcting bad posture.
EXERCISE AND BACK PAIN RELIEF EQUIPMENT:
The age old advice of “Bed rest for back pain relief” has been proven wrong as back pain only worsens with prolonged rest and could only be remedied by remaining active. Exercise equipment help by loosening tight and sore back muscles and increasing flexibility and mobility in the spine. Good examples of exercise equipment that are effective in relieving back pain are inversion tables and whale back benches.
HEATING PADS:The warm temperature being emitted by heating pads eases sore and inflamed muscles and increase the flow of blood, oxygen and other nutrients to the affected area for faster healing.
ICE PACKS: Ice packs are most effective during the first 48 hours of pain onset. It helps to reduce inflammation and muscle spasms.
BACK MASSAGERS: A back massager is the perfect home remedy for those who cannot afford to go to a spa or avail of the services of a professional masseuse. Coming in bed sized or portable hand-held back pain relief equipment, back massagers can be used to relax the part with pain, reduce tension in and soothe painful muscles.
BACK MAGNETS: Back magnets relieve back pain through interacting with the body’s bio-electrical energies. These magnets are available in the form of patches, belts, seat cushions or specialized magnets.
CREAMS AND GELS: Topical medications such as gels, creams, sprays, ointments and skin patches are lower back pain relief products that no individual can live without. These are applied directly over the painful area for quick, soothing relief. Possibly the best type of creams and gels are those with the active ingredient of capsaicin, a hot substance that is derived from chili peppers.
BACK PAIN RELIEF FOODS
Vitamins and Supplements: Minerals and vitamins play a very crucial role in your body’s ability to release the energy from food items and in keeping overall health of your body. To be able to keep healthy and strong bones and prevent back pain, be sure you consume adequate amount of calcium and vitamin D.
With the many types of back pain relief products out there, back pain sufferers have great options to choose from to help in alleviating their aches and pains.
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An autotraction Method is used for years by me, a medical doctor, to keep my herniated disc low back pain under control. A simple and small Frame is attached to an over door chin-up bar. I take a double mouth guard into my mouth to protect the teeth, settle my head inside the Frame, grasp the Frame with both my arms to protect the neck, and gradually and carefully begin bending in the knees thus applying decompressing force to the spine. I usually do such procedure twice a day, in the morning and evening, but some days I have to do it more often. This relieves the pain allowing me to live almost normal life. Positive processes in my spine accumulate and sometimes I can be without traction for a week or a little more though it does not cure my spine completely. The low back pain may become severe and my body crooked if I do not use traction for two or three weeks.
Conclusions:
1. this Method kept me, a young low back pain patient, capable to work;
2. it was cost-effective as all the other treatments were abandoned;
3. this Method keeps me, now old back pain patient, from becoming a back cripple;
4. it is a simple self-help, self-manage treatment so that I, 79 year old man, can easily use it at home any time suitable.
There are some other advantages of this method that need further investigation.
Please let me know if iyou are interested in the device when it is manufactured. My sponsor announced her intention to finance manufacturing if there is a shop interested in the product. No she does not demand any contract or anything of that kind. Device has been granted UK Patent, Method is pending in the USA.