What medicine should I take for back pain

Back pain is a very common problem in life, and it often occurs in people of different ages. Most of them are caused by overwork and lack of timely exercise. Therefore, patients with back pain should be careful not to rush to massage and treat it casually. They should first understand the causes and types. The problem of back pain can be treated through appropriate massage and traction therapy. In addition, acupuncture and drug treatments are relatively effective.

Treating back pain

1. Exercise therapy: Exercise can increase muscle flexibility and joint flexibility, and can also enhance muscle strength and endurance, thereby improving the body's qi.

Blood circulation and relieve physical and mental stress. Exercise can also help prevent pain or help eliminate back pain. It is the most important and effective method for treating back pain. Currently, the best light exercises are Tai Chi, Qigong and swimming.

2. Push and press therapy: Push and press therapy can help release or reduce physical and mental stress and relax tense muscles. Therefore, it is also one of the important methods to eliminate back pain.

Rub the waist

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rubbing the waist with the palms can not only dredge the belt meridian and strengthen the waist and spine, but also improve hearing and eyesight, consolidate essence and kidneys, and prolong life. Middle-aged people rub their waists frequently, which can help them keep their backs straight in old age and prevent and treat low back pain caused by wind and cold.

Modern medical research has proven that massaging the waist can not only dilate the rich capillary network in the local skin, promote blood circulation, and accelerate the elimination of metabolic products, but also stimulate nerve endings. The gentle stimulation of the nervous system is beneficial to the repair of damaged tissues and improves the endurance of the lumbar muscles.

Therefore, massaging the waist can play a good preventive and therapeutic role in chronic lumbar muscle strain and acute lumbar sprain, and it also has a certain effect on diseases such as herniated disc and sciatica.

3. Traction therapy: This method helps to increase the distance between vertebrae for patients with intervertebral disc herniation and lumbar foraminal stenosis, prevent bone spurs or cartilage from compressing the nerves, and help relieve pain symptoms.

4. Acupuncture therapy: Acupuncture can promote the circulation of qi and blood, and has an analgesic effect, and is quite effective for acute pain. If the patient is suffering from chronic lumbar muscle strain, local warm moxibustion can be applied, which has the effect of relaxing muscles and activating blood circulation.

5. Physical therapy: including ultrasound, electrotherapy, hot and cold compresses and other methods. Ultrasound waves can penetrate deep into muscle tissue and generate heat, which helps relieve pain and swelling. Electrotherapy uses electrical stimulation to make muscle cells move regularly, relieving muscle hardening and cramps. Cold compress is suitable for acute pain within one or two days, and has the effect of relieving pain and reducing swelling; while hot compress is more suitable for chronic pain, and can improve local circulation and enhance tissue recovery ability.

6. Drug treatment: For patients with local bruises, swelling, heat and pain, drugs that promote blood circulation, reduce swelling and clear heat can be applied externally. If there is no bruises but pain, external application can be used.