New Alternative Back Pain Treatments Part 1

If you’ve been hurting and looking for a cure for lower back pain, here aer some newer treatments you should know about.

Chronic back pain in particular, is a scourge. It is reported that upwards of 90% of American Adults will suffer back pain in their lifetime. Back pain costs this country more in lost man hours and lost productivity than any other medical condition. Lower back pain is the most common cause of worker’s compensation claims.

Unfortunately, even though the problem is widespread, historically there have been relatively few successful chronc low back pain cures. Thanks to newer computer technology, however, doctors have so much more in their arsenal in the war on back pain.

Cold Laser Therapy
One of the new alternative back pain treatments is Cold Laser therapy. Low light energy is emitted from a small hand-held device that has been clinically proven to help fight the pain and inflammation of arthritis and other causes of chronic low back pain. This FDA cleared treatment has been around for some time, but until recently it was used primarily by sports physicians caring for elite athletes like Lance, Tiger, our US Olympians and many NFL, NBA and MLB players. Cold laser is emerging as one of the fastest growing therapies today for all sorts of conditions including low back and leg pain (sciatica).

Cold laser treatments are brief, about 6 minutes and are often used at the same time massage, stretching or other exercises are done to loosen tight muscles, stimulate nerves and remove inflammation. Because it is a light therapy, you cannot feel it. It is totally painless. And in the hands of a careful and competent doctor, there are no side effects. Patients often experience relief within only a few visits.

To learn more about Cold Laser Therapy and see if it can help your painful back, follow this link:
http://www.drmarks.com/cold_laser_therapy_for_carpal_tunnel_sciatica_and_whiplash.html