“Back Pain Remedies: Walk More”

Looking for a cure for lower back pain? Chronic low back pain got you down? Want to help your chiropractor or therapist ?

Take a walk.

Walking is great exercise for the lower back. Each step uses the lower back, butt and abdominal muscles to keep them fit.

How to walk more:

• Park further from the store when shopping
• Park further from the office at work
• Take a walking lunch
• Get the family out for an evening walk after dinner
• Go to a mall on a rainy day
• Take your poodle out for a stroll
• Go to the zoo
• Or an amusement park

When NOT to walk

• When you have sciatica
• When you can’t comfortably stand straight
• When walking causes more than minor discomfort for your back
• When it’s too hot
• When you have back spasms

By adding extra walking minutes each day, you are conditioning your core muscles that support your back. This will lead to increased strength and endurance which has been shown to reduce back pain.

“Back Pain Remedies: Lose an Inch”

Okay, so we all should know that carrying around extra weight is not good for us. And you’re probably sick of all the pressure for Americans to lose weight and become emaciated skeletons like our European brethren. And lastly, if you have back pain and have gone to your MD, he or she has probably told you to lose weight for the sake of your back

That’s all just fine, but listen to this…

Skinny people have back pain too!

No, I’m not advocating we all gain weight. No, I’m not refuting that back pain can be aggravated by excess weight.

What I am saying is this…

Not everyone who has back pain and then loses weight will have less back pain. It’s really quite simple. If you have a large belly that sticks out over your pants, guess what? If you lose belly fat, your back will be less stressed and your back pain may decrease.

If on the other hand, you do not have a protruding belly, but say, saddle bags from the hips down to the thighs like the typical female fat pattern, losing weight will have no bearing on your back. Your weight is not stressing your back. Lose weight because you want to for aesthetic reasons, but don’t think it’s going to cure your lower back pain. It won’t.

30 lbs over and you have a belly

Okay, so let’s say you are 30 lbs over weight and have a belly. And let’s suppose you have lower back pain and would like to help it. What do you do?

First off, you are not going to try to lose 30 lbs. Forget about the weight entirely. Instead focus on this: your waist size and how your pants or skirts fit. And here’s your goal: 1 pants size smaller. That’s all. Just drop 1 pant size, which is equivalent to about 10 lbs (but remember we don’t want to count pounds!). Taking 1 pant size off your belly will significantly reduce back strain.

After that goal is reached then worry about the rest of the weight if you’d like.

4 Steps to Lose Belly Fat (About 1 Pant Size in 2 weeks)

1. Drink more water (until your urine is clear)
2. Eliminate white foods (white bread, white crackers, white rice, white tortillas, etc.)
3. Eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables (oranges, pink grapefruit, dark greens)
4. Exercise 20 min. daily (you don’t need a gym or equipment if you do this…)

So there you have it. Drop one pant size and you should notice some back pain relief.

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