Back Pain: How to Help Yourself

Learn simple hands on remedies for a range of common aliments and learn to take responsibility for your own health.

Back pain begins with an irritation. This can have many causes ranging from sneezing to diving into water. This affects the nerves in the back and can cause complications. The nerves can also be influenced by infection, direct or indirect injury, sudden changes in temperature, and illness. The psyche also plays an important role in the development of back pain. Back pain often occurs in conjunction with other symptoms. Special notice should be taken of bruising, swelling, abnormal bone protrusions, foot problems, and muscle cramps. All of these can lead to back pain. Back pain can be aggravated by bad posture and lack of exercise.

Pain in the lower back: In the mornings while you lay in bed, or while sitting in your office, press the knuckles against both sides of the spine in the lower back. This helps if you have hip pain and also calms the sciatic nerve. Raise the knees and stretch the legs and breathe deeply. You should feel warmth flowing through your body. This helps to disperse pain caused by bad posture and insufficient exercise. This exercise also helps to prevent cramp in the back muscles and stomach organs. Press the knuckles against the lower back

Pressing with the thumbs against the sides of the lower spine will help to remove toxins that have collected in the bloodstream at this point. It doesn’t matter if you do this while standing or sitting, so long as your spine is straight.

It is much more difficult to treat the vertebrae in the neck and upper spine yourself. One possibility is to lie on a golf ball. Lie so that the ball is under the point that is giving you pain, after approximately 10 seconds let the ball roll higher or lower depending on the point you started from. Feel with your fingertips for sensitive places between the neck and the shoulders. If you feel a hard spot, apply slightly more or longer pressure. Lie on a golfball!

Alternatively try working on the relevant area on your feet! Reflexology is easy to give yourself and the following tips will take only minutes to carry out. The results will very often be not only pleasurable but remarkable!