Back Pain

Yoga is tremendous for helping with back pain. Child's pose.

Some great treatment that you can do for some back pain is obviously visiting the chiropractor and keeping hot compresses on it, keeping it soothed and stretched out. I always talk about staying well stretched before you do any physical activity. Chiropractors have things where you lay on this bed and it could roll it out underneath you and keep it nice and warm. I have a TENS unit which hooks up like electrical shock pads you can surround the painful area with and it will do some electric shock therapy. It kind of feels weird and tingly but it relaxes the muscles and feels a lot better.

Other important things for back pain might include stretching muscles that might be causing tightness in the back, especially the lower back. So these can be the hips, typically in the hip flexors, the glutes, and stuff like that. But also on the other side of that, strengthening certain muscles, especially your core, strengthening your hip flexors, strengthening your glutes, will take a lot of stress and pain off of that lower back. So this can be activities like hip bridges are a great one. Obviously, various core exercises like hanging leg lifts and other activities that'll just take that strain and pressure off of your lower back.

Best treatments are probably lifestyle changes and finding a stretching and mobility routine that works well for you.

Leg stretches and back stretches. So specifically with the back pain that I have that many might be able to relate to is the lower back. A lot of that is muscles that connect from your butt to your lower back and those muscles there. So being able to sit on the ground and maybe reach your toes or doing lunges and stretching out those hamstrings of your legs that connect to your back, believe it or not, is what will help a lot. So just doing some hamstring stretches, look them up.

Both me and my dad, my dad had more severe back pain. He ended up having surgery, he had some compressed discs and stuff. Swimming was a big help for us when we had back pain, because that way we were able to exercise. There's a cardio element, there's a little bit of a strength element in there, but for some reason being in the water and those lengthening movements actually were really helpful, as for most people I know in fact who have tried it, who have had back pain.

Sometimes in pretty extreme cases, if it's if the back pain is bothering you pretty bad, you can take muscle relaxers, which I believe have to be prescribed rather by a physician. So that can be a different number of different compounds that'll help you relax and sleep, almost mainly to help recover from back pain. Another form of treatment can be going to a chiropractor. This will assist a lot of times with people who are struggling with back pain, but it doesn't work for everybody and not everyone believes in going to a chiropractor, but that is available and it has worked for some people. It worked personally for my dad, but it wasn't as great for me with my back pain, so I actually ended up getting muscle relaxers prescribed instead.