| Therapies against back pain |
| Written by Administrator |
| Wednesday, 11 March 2009 03:16 |
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A good doctor surely will pursue two strategies in the treatment of a new back pain victim. The first one is to find and cure the causes of the back pain; the second one is to stop the pain. Truth be told: in the majority of the cases the causes cannot be definitely established. On the other hand do most of the therapies really help the patient, even if the cause of the back pain remains unclear. To give you an example for this seemingly strange logic: physical therapy in the form of heat packs almost always brings relief - the heat will stimulate blood circulation in the affected area, better blood circulation will enhance the transport of nutrients and the disposal of toxic substances in the cells, and these effects will not be depending on whether the actual “culprit” is a muscle, a nerve or a ligament. Another example: massages almost always will bring relief - even if we will never know in the end if the massage did result in the relaxation of an affected muscle or actually did bring relaxation by affection to a patient whose back pain was caused by depression. This situation is one of the reasons why in the last years we have seen a decline in the number of highly specific invasive therapies like lumbar steroid injections or vertebral surgery - too many risks and efforts in the fight against obscure “causes” where we actually just want see pain relief. |