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If you feel back pain, then it must be treated immediately. Well, there are several ways to medicate acute back pain. The option can be non-medicine ways or medicine treatments. Let’s to the point, the following are some back pain treatment tips.
Keep active and begin with gentle activity!
You may think, for a couple days you will reduce your activities in order to give more relaxed atmosphere for your body, but avoid resting to long because this idea won’t too effective.
And the following are some helpful steps to treat back pain:
- Avoid staying or keeping in one location (position) for more than 30-20 minutes at a time. Always try to keep and make moving your body, the sooner you begin keeping active (moving naturally) then the sooner the back pain is likely to begin feeling better.
- Well, you may likely to feel some uncomfortable pain when moving your body but it is normal, therefore in order to keep moving your body, always begin with the slowly moving.
- Back to work, especially if feel better! In fact, there are a lot of individuals who experience better recovery of acute lower back with back to work fairly quickly. But, you may need to re-adjust the way or mechanism you to work until your recovery is completed. For more detailed information, don’t forget to ask to your doctor before back to work.
Keep your positive thinking!
Always remember to do not allow the back pain that you feel take over your mind, you should be always positive thinking and confident that the pain can be completely treated! This is important, because in many cases the pain will make patient sad, tired or even frustrated.
In order to eliminate or avoid negative feelings, you have to keep well your mood, like by moving around, taking deep-breath exercise, or trying relaxation techniques. These ideas also will be helpful enough to reduce your pain and make you calm!
Simple and safe pain reliever
You can also use a simple & safe pain reliever such as paracetamol (generally it has fewer effect than other pain-relieving medication) to reduce the pain. For more detailed information, you can contact pharmacist or your doctor to ask about what is the best product that you should choose and safe enough for you to consume.
Alternative treatments (non-medicine)
There are several choices, like manual therapy (such as spinal massage or spinal manipulation), acupuncture, cold or hot packs (such as hot-water bottle, warm blanket, and wheat pack), etc. These non-medicine treatments are anecdotally familiar known to reduce or relieve pain, although there are still not scientifically-proofs between these non-medicine treatments and back pain recovery.
