Online Back Pain Relief Blog » Pain http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog Your Source for Back Pain Exercises and Programs Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:40:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 All Dried Up http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/all-dried-up/ http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/all-dried-up/#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:49:29 +0000 admin http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/all-dried-up/ 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 dry enough the disc can eventually collapses and can cause other back problems.

The good news is that it’s really not a disease.  Degenerative disc disease is  a normal step in the aging process.  Actually, a lot of things get drier in the body as it ages if you think about it including skin and hair.  There’s really not a lot that can be done about degenerative disc disease itself.  If the drying up of the disc causes other problems like vertebrae collapsing then there are several treatments that can be applied.  For the most part, the best thing you can do is regular back exercises to keep the muscle support system strong.

]]> http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/all-dried-up/feed/ 0 It Hurts but It’s Not Serious http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/it-hurts-but-it%e2%80%99s-not-serious/ http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/it-hurts-but-it%e2%80%99s-not-serious/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:46:07 +0000 admin http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/it-hurts-but-it%e2%80%99s-not-serious/ Diagnosing the cause of a back problem can be very difficult.  The source of pain can be almost impossible to pinpoint in many cases.  A muscle strain won’t show up on a MRI or X-ray making it hard to say exactly what’s been injured.  But one of the most common diagnosis is muscle sprain.  A strain can actually be a muscle, ligament or tendon strain.

When you strain your back, there’s a limited number of things you can do to make it feel better.  Often, it just takes some time for the sprain to heal.  You can reduce your physical activity while it’s healing.  You can also put an ice pack on the area where it hurts right after the injury happens.  There are plenty of over-the-counter medications you can take too.  As the pain begins to go away, you should start moving around again.  It usually only takes a few days for a sprain to get better.

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The back pain you feel with a herniated disc is due to the disc pressing on a nerve.  You can actually feel the pain in your legs if it’s a lower back vertebrae that presses on the nerves that runs down your legs.  Most herniated discs happen in the lower spine or lower back.  When the sciatica nerve is pressured by a herniated disc, the pain can be intense all the way down the leg.  There are lots of things the doctor can potentially recommend you do to relieve the pain. You can do exercises to strengthen the back, take anti-inflammatory medications or get steroid injections for example.

]]> http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/explain-the-difference/feed/ 0 I’m In So Much Pain! http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/i%e2%80%99m-in-so-much-pain/ http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/i%e2%80%99m-in-so-much-pain/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:39:39 +0000 admin http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/i%e2%80%99m-in-so-much-pain/ The doctor labels pain according to how long it lasts and how often it occurs.  They do this so they can determine which is the best diagnostic tool and the best treatment to use.  The categories can get a little blurry at times though.  For example, acute pain can be recurrent pain.

The first kind of pain is acute pain. Acute pain is pain that usually lasts less than one month.  The level of pain depends upon what caused the pain. The worse the injury, the more it hurts.  Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than 3 to 6 months.  You don’t even have to have an injury still healing for the pain to continue.  Intermittent or recurrent pain is acute pain that happens over and over again.

There are lots of pain therapies used for the different levels of pain.  You can do some at home while others require a doctor.  When you go to the doctor, he or she is going to classify your pain after getting a history or your pain episodes.

]]> http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/i%e2%80%99m-in-so-much-pain/feed/ 0 New Device for Treating Chronic Pain http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/new-device-for-treating-chronic-pain/ http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/new-device-for-treating-chronic-pain/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:33:24 +0000 admin http://www.backpainfixes.com/blog/new-device-for-treating-chronic-pain/ Back in September, an Austin, Texas company announced a new device for treating chronic pain and sleep disorders.  The new alternative medical treatment system uses Electromagnetic Pulse Generators to reduce swelling and improve circulation.  It looks quite interesting.

For more information, see www.austinmedicalresearch.com

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