Low back pain can linger for long periods and it's time to seek out a solution. Here are 5 ways that can help alleviate the pain.
1. Movement
Analysis/Assessment
a.
By going to a specialist such as a Physical
Therapist, you can determine how efficiently you are moving during various positions
and activities throughout the day. This is important because certain muscles
can be working too much while others are not at all. This can cause muscular
imbalances such as weakening, tightening, and even create “knots” for the over loaded
muscles, while atrophying the others.
2. Physical
Therapy
a.
Physical Therapists are known as the Movement
Specialists among the medical community and are even educated at a doctoral
level. After a thorough evaluation and assessment the Physical Therapist can
determine which exercises, stretches, and modalities can be most effective for
you. They can also provide manual therapy to provide deep tissue massage and Myofascial
release as well as perform spinal manipulation or mobilization to correct the
alignment of the spine and peripheral joints.
3. Spinal
Decompression
a.
This is a modality utilized by Physical
Therapists that is used primarily for Low back pain and neck pain. Spinal Decompression
is a type of traction that primarily treatments ailments that involve disk
pathology, such as bulging or herniated disks, degenerative disk disease, and
radiculopathies. Decompression is a minimally invasive technique that stretches
the spine to take pressure off the disks. As a result, bulging disks may
retract, taking pressure off nerves and other structures in your spine.
Decompression is a conservative approach for those trying to avoid medications,
injections, and especially surgery.
4. Dry-Needling
a.
Dry needling is a skilled intervention that
uses a thin needle to penetrate the skin and stimulate underlying myofascial
trigger points, muscular, and connective tissues for the management of
neuromusculoskeletal pain and movement impairments. The goal of Dry-needling is
to reduce the hyperirritability of the targeted muscle tissue which can be felt as a taut band in the muscle.
Some people may refer to this as a “knot”.
5.
Weight loss
a.
Weight obviously determines the amount of forces placed
upon the body with all movements. Even from the simplest of tasks such as
walking or standing up, the amount of pressure placed on the spine is
exacerbated when there is excessive weight. The good news is that just the
slightest amount of weight loss (5 lbs) can be statistically significant in
decreasing the amount force directed throughout the body. My advice would be to
start slow and easy with just a short term goal of losing 5 lbs in one month or
so.
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