http://backpainhelpandadvice.com Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:02:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A common medication prescription given for backpain is for muscle relaxants. Muscle relaxants work well when your muscles are so tense they cause backpain. What I didn’t realize is that science doesn’t know for sure how muscle relaxants work on the muscles. They just know they have ... http://backpainhelpandadvice.com/i-finally-feel-relaxed/ When I think of electrical stimulation I can’t help but think of the old Frankenstein movies. Yet electrical stimulation is used as one of the treatments for back therapy. Of course, it’s been given a long medical name which is Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation or TENS. It ... http://backpainhelpandadvice.com/go-ahead-and-shock-me-2/ Sometimes there’s no choice but to have surgery. When two vertebrae don’t work properly at the joint, spine movement might cause unrelenting pain. When nothing else works, the doctor may recommend spinal fusion. Fortunately, this kind of surgery is getting to be less and less necessary as ... http://backpainhelpandadvice.com/making-it-permanent/ One of the treatments for backpain is called a trigger point injection. A trigger point injection is where anesthetic is injected into muscles to relieve backpain. There can be more than one injection administered at a time. The point of the anesthetic is to deaden ... http://backpainhelpandadvice.com/go-ahead-and-pull-the-trigger-4/ It seems like we should just know how to sit properly, but unfortunately we don’t. How you sit and how long you sit can have a direct impact on your spine health. There are several people who sit all day at work and then sit in front of ... http://backpainhelpandadvice.com/a-lesson-in-sitting-3/ When you’re pregnant, developing backpain is very normal. The pain can range from mild to painful, but you just have to try and manage the pain as best you can. There are some things you can do that will probably relieve a lot of the pain. You ... http://backpainhelpandadvice.com/baby-makes-my-back-hurt-3/ Lots of people go to chiropractors looking for relief from backpain. If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in a chiropractor’s office, you’re not alone. Basically the chiropractor tries to relieve the pressure and compression in a spine that’s resulted from back tension, strain or even injury. ... http://backpainhelpandadvice.com/such-a-pain-in-the-neck-10/ I get very confused about when to use ice packs or heating pads if muscles are sore. For a while I used only heat, because it’s a more comfortable temperature. I really don’t like the feeling of cold. Then I discovered that cold and heat serve two ... http://backpainhelpandadvice.com/hot-or-cold/ Drs. Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall developed a theory about backpain in the 1960s. Research on their theory is being given new life due to the incredible medical research tools available today. The theory is called the Gate Control Theory of Pain. It’s an interesting theory that’s ... http://backpainhelpandadvice.com/closing-the-gate-of-pain/ There’s a difference between a bulging back disc and a herniated back disc. The verterbrae disc, if you remember, is the cushion between vertebrae in your spine. A bulging verterbrae disc is a back disc that pushes out but doesn’t actually rupture the wall of the verterbrae disc. ... http://backpainhelpandadvice.com/explain-the-difference/