Sciatica and Lower Back Pain Exercise
Back pain is a problem many people the world over often come to endure to some degree. For some it is a source of constant pain and agony, while for others it is a problem which comes and goes without too much suffering.
One of the biggest problems is trying to convince your doctor just how much pain you are in, and if you have a prolapsed disc impinging on your sciatic nerve it could take weeks or months before it is correctly diagnosed. All this of course could depend on where you live, how sympathetic your doctor is, or how much you can afford to spend on health care.
The saddest fact of all is, for the many back pain sufferers, especially those with low back or sciatic nerve pain, there is much that can be done to help ease that pain and get back some form of mobility. Even knowing the right questions to ask your doctor can often help.
Perhaps the most important way all back pain sufferers can help their self is by doing gentle stretching and exercise. This could well be the last thing many sufferers would wish to contemplate when sometimes it is even painful just to move. Sometimes the best way to get started is to do some gentle stretches before you get out of bed. Ask your heath care provider what ones are suitable for you.
Always seek medical help.
Do some research on the Web before visiting your health care practitioner and make a list of questions to ask. It is also important, if your back problem persists, to make arrangements to have a MRI scan.
This is usually definitive in identifying the problem area and it is particularly useful in determining the source of sciatic nerve pain.
Once you know what is wrong you can focus all your energy on rehabilitation. Usually there are many avenues to explore including:
surgery,
passive manipulation,
Chiropractor,
Osteopath,
Physical Therapy,
Yoga,
Tai Chi,
Pilates,
Alexander Technique,
Chi Kung,
Magnetic therapy,
TENs machines,
and so the list goes on. What works well for some may not work at all for others so it is important to explore as many avenues as possible and try to keep positive.
–About–
Bill Morrison has his own website http://www.help4urback.comwhere he describes his own personal experiences and what worked for him, including personal recommendations on what books to buy and what web sites to check out.
Sciatica & Back Pain News
September 21st, 2006 at 4:39 pm
very good blogger site!.
Do you know BBC News (14/09/2006) Acupuncture for low back pain is cost-effective and works, according to medical researchers. Two studies on bmj.com suggest a short course of acupuncture would benefit patients and healthcare providersThe cost is well below the threshold used by officials to decide whether the NHS can afford to fund a set treatment, they said. Up to 80% of UK residents experience back pain at some point in their lives, costing the NHS £480m a year.—(BBC News 14/09/2006)
And, What do you think about it? Something as follow:
Chinese acupuncture practitioner had almost been accused for website’s ads in Bristol
Dr Zhentong Han is a Chinese registered acupuncturist with twenty years of clinical experience. He is very popular among the patients in the area with outstanding technique. The appointments for him in the clinic in Bradford were always full, however, at Bristol, another place where he set up his business; there were troubles from the competitions in the same field.
It started at the acupunctural website of Dr Han(http://www.backachetherapy.co.uk), which occupied the NO.1 place in a international websites about acupuncture (http://www.passion-4.net/tables/Acupuncture.html). Because of the large number of patients attracted by this website which introduced traditional Chinese acupuncture for backache therapy,and top position in yahoo and google. it caught great attention of other businesses in the same field in a very short time. Some practitioner even registered company names using key words about acupuncture , and notified Dr Han and other practitioners to stop using the some key words for advertising the website. Or else they would probably be charged by the law.
Dr Han claimed that he regretted deeply for the matter, but he didn’t want to get involved in this legal dispute, for the purpose of having a website is not to score high on the network, but to have more patients understand the most veracious Chinese traditional acupunctural techniques through his website, so to help more patients get rid of the pain.
Bristol Chinese Pain relief Acupuncture
http://www.backachetherapy.co.uk