A Pulled Muscle Might Be Why Your Suffering Low Back Pain
When you pull a lower-back muscle, your muscles need special care to heal. Without understanding the body’s recovery process, many people innocently cause themselves more low-back pain. And in the meantime they slow their bodies own healing process.
This one practice seems harmless, and it provides temporary relief from back pain and soreness. So, how can it be causing long-term damage?
The one common self-care practice is utilizing a heat application.
Here’s a typical senario:
It’s the first heavy snowfall of the winter season, and your lower back muscles were not ready to shovel the entire driveway and front walkway.
When you wake up the next morning, your whole lower lumbar area is extremely sore. Getting around all day proves very difficult and your moving really slow. It dawns on you later in the day that you might be in for some low back pain treatment if things don’t improve. So, you settle into the couch in the evening, with a heat pad on your lower back.
Heat is like a new trend in self-medication. We have heated car seats, and even our couches have cushions that heat up. We keep heat packs at the office, too. Heat provides a quick fix, but it may aggravate the condition.
Why is heat application so bad for relieving aches and pains?
Pain and soreness may be your back’s way of screaming out for help. Low back muscle pain is often a sign of inflammation, and overactivity. And quite possibly due to inactivity.
When we apply heat, our mind blocks out pain signals temporarily. But if the pain is due to inflammation, the pain will return when the heat is removed. And it can return with a painful vengeance.
Is your weary body and sore muscles calling out for more heat?
Instead, apply Ice.
There are four basic steps of First Aid: Rest - Ice - Compression - and Elevation. Notice heat is not included.
If you consider that your lower back muscles need to rest and cool down, then try the temporary relief and healing of ice instead of heat for some homeade back pain therapy.
If your low back pain persists after a few days, it might be more serious than a simple lower back muscle pull.
You might consider a second opinion from a professional to get some relief for back pain and that professional is only a phone call away for a highly qualified Mid-Michigan chiropractor at 517.663.8825.
Colestock Family Chiropractic has been servicing the community of Eaton Rapids and surrounding vicinities since 2003 for all kinds of back pain treatment.
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Exercises For Back Pain
The imbalances in your core muscles can cause back pain. Core muscles include all the muscles from shoulders to hips. These exercises will help you increase the flexibility of your core muscles and diminish the imbalance between them so that they support your spine better.
Superman
Lie down with your face facing down. Extend your arms before you and raise your shoulders up. Hold this position for abut 30 seconds and then lower yourself. Repeat the exercise for 10 times.
Extending backwards
Stand upright and curl backwards as far as you can until you feel strain. Hold your position for 3 seconds and return to your initial position. Repeat the activity 5 times.
Pulling knee to chest
Lie on your back and pull your one knee towards your chest with your hands. Hold for 30 seconds and bring back it to initial position. Now pull your other knee. Repeat it one by one with both knees for several times.
Body flexion
Sit down on your knees and cross your arms before your abdomen, now curl your body forwards but keep your head above the ground and hold it for 30 seconds. Resume initial position and repeat.
Stretch
Start again by sitting on your knees and lean forward this time extending your arms before yourself. Keep your head above ground and hold for 30 seconds. Resume initial position and repeat.
Bend over
Stand in an upright position and cross your arms across your abdomen. Now bend down and let your upper body’s weight stretch the muscles on your back. Hold the position for 10 seconds and repeat 20 times.
Stretch to foot
Sit and stretch your legs out and put your feet together. Put your hand on the ground and extend them forwards as much as you can. Hold your position for 30 seconds and repeat the exercise.
Pelvis bridge
Lie on your back and bend your knees and put your feet flat on the ground. By not moving any part of your upper body, tilt your pelvis up. Gradually raise your vertebrates and lift your pelvis bone higher. Now lower yourself gradually and repeat the exercise. Remember to exhale while you lift and inhale while you lower yourself.
Press up
Lie with your face facing the floor and keep your face off the ground. Put your hands on the ground parallel to your shoulders and lift your chest up. Make sure you lift up with the help of your back muscles and not your hands. Now lower your one vertebrate at a time. Remember to exhale while you lift up and inhale while you lower yourself.
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Sciatica and Sciatic Nerve Pain
Intense leg pain…numbness…tingling or burning pain radiating throughout your lower back. Any or all of these symptoms are frequently associated with sciatica.
Sciatica is an extremely painful condition involving your sciatic nerve. Your sciatic nerve is the largest and longest nerve in the human body which extends along the back of the leg from the buttocks to the inside of the ankle. When your sciatic nerve becomes inflamed or stressed in any way, the result is often an agonizing, excruciating and temporarily debilitating problem. Many people often mistakenly refer to this condition as a “slipped disc”.
If you are experiencing painful sciatic nerve symptoms, you may feel discouraged and helpless. You may be thinking that this type of excruciating pain and physical incapacity may mean surgery and that nothing could possibly help your sciatic pain.
Studies have suggested that chiropractic care to be helpful in the relief of symptoms of sciatica. Dr Colestock is ready to work with you to alleviate your discomfort and restore you to better health as quickly as possible.
By designing a sciatica treatment program especially for you, Dr Colestock may be able to help you on your way to feeling better naturally through a gentler approach to chiropractic care using the Activator Method; without resorting to the other drastic snap-crackle-pop methods other chiropractors use that are often more costly and no more effective.
It is important to note that recovery time from sciatica is usually much slower than recovery from simple back pain. While relief from sciatica treatment may be obtained in a short period of time, it is worth remembering that the severity of the condition may require longer treatment.
Studies show that after one month, 30% of people with sciatica recover with conservative management; 50% recover in three months; 70% recover in six months. Whereas, 80%-90% of cases involving simple back pain are resloved within one month.
Possible causes of sciatica are:
- Sprained Ligament
- Disc Bulge
- Jammed Facet Joint
Sciatic pain is a difficult condition in that it may involve muscles, bones, discs, ligaments, and nerves which each require several steps in the healing process. Dr Colestock’s goal is not to merely bring relief to your pain but to identify and correct the source of your problem as well.
Contact Dr Colestock’s office now at 517.663.8825 to set an appointment to alleviate your sciatica pain and get some relief and back on the road to recovery.
What Is This Activator Method for Back Pain Relief?
The chiropractic technique called the Activator Method evolved from 40 years of study and 15 years of clinical research using the latest advances in orthepedic, neurological, and chiropractic examinations to seek joint dysfunction in the spinal column and extremities for improved patient care.
Activator Methods Chiropractic Technique (AMCT) uses the Activator Adjusting Instrument to give consistent low-force, high speed chiropractic adjustments. Over 35,000 doctors have been trained in AMCT and 2,100 doctors are Proficiency Rated, making AMCT the most widely used technique worldwide; a testament to low-force patient satisfaction.
Activator Methods equips capable doctors to provide high quality patient care. Technique seminars are constantly given around the world to instruct and certify doctors as Basic or Advanced Proficiency Rated AMCT doctors.
The Proficiency Rating assures doctors automatically become part of Activator Method’s worldwide referral service, and patients can rest assured their care will be world class.
Dr. Colestock is a Chiropractor that is Proficiency Rated in the Activator Method Technique for back pain, shoulder neck pain, hip pain, sciatica, upper back and neck pain and many other chronic pains and one of the only Chiropractors in the Mid-Michigan area qualifed in the Activator Technique, the gentle approach to chiropractic care.
Hurting? Stiff? Sore?
Have you heard about the latest government research findings to help you get relief from your back pain quickly?
You’ll be glad to know that the best treatment for most “acute” or short term lower back pain (generally back pain lasting less than 3 months) is just the kind your chiropractor offers.
And it’s all without any complicated, risky or expensive surgery, drugs, traction or extended bed rest.
That means you’re in the right place to find help. According to the government findings, the expert spinal manipulations offered by your doctor of chiropractic are a recommended, safe and effective form of initial lower back pain treatment to relieve your discomfort, especially in the first month your symptoms appear.
Together with you, Dr. Colestock can design a complete and personalized care program to help speed your recovery.
The Problem
Low back pain is a very common problem, second only to the common cold as a reason for a doctor visit.
Studies show that 8 out of 10 people will have low back pain at some point in their lives, with more than 95% having recurring problems in the future.
While your condition is no doubt painful and bothersome, the good news is that acute lower back pain is usually not serious, and you will recover and be back to your normal activities soon.
However, it is especially important to seek professional care when your lower back distress lasts more than a few days, keeps you from your daily activities, or produces severe pain enough to have a name for it called screaming back pain.
Here are a few causes of lower back pain:
- Muscle spasms
- Trauma
- Accident
- Repeated damage to the spine
- Hereditary
- Aging
- Disease
- Irritated nerves
- Referred pain from other body organs
- Stress
- Poor posture
- Poor muscle tone
- Excess weight
- Strenuous activitiies
- Inactivity
Even other symptoms which seem unrelated can be important clues as to the source of your problem - such as abdominal pain, menstrual pain, nausea or diarrhea.
Chiropractic Care
Dr. Colestock’s goal is not to merely bring relief to your back pain, but to alleviate the source of it as well! This is generally the result of the chiropractic “adjustments” or “spinal manipulations” you will recieve during your care.
An adjustment is intended to decrease muscle spasm and to help restore normal mobility to the painful area. The increased mobility helps to promote circulation and helps insure proper nutrition to the joints and spine, and is thereby believed to decrease irritation, inflammation and pain.
Your chiropractic adjustment will most likely be done with your chiropractor’s hands and may be assisted by a special table and other special aids.
Your doctor may also use a small, hand-held instrument called an Activator which will allow him or her to apply specific low force to the needed area without discomfort to you.
Chiropractic adjustments are continued through-out the healing process or until your body is able to maintain it’s appropriate function without you experiencing any pain. Other therapies such as ice, heat or special back pain exercises may also be used.
The better you comply with the recommended treatments and schedule, the more likely your recovery will be complete and effective in the shortest time possible.
Dedicated to Your Well-Being
Welcome to Colestock Family Chiropractic, where we use the Activator Technique, a gentler approach to chiropractic care and numerous other physical ailments such as:
- Back Pain
- Hip Pain
- Neck Pain
- Grinding Teeth
- Headaches
- Back Injury
- Muscle Spasms
- Skeletal Disorders
- Whiplash Treatment
- Knee Pain
- Carpal Tunnel Pain
- Herniated Disc
- Pinched Nerve
- Disc Problems
- Sciatica
- Shoulder Pain
- Lower Back Pain
- Lower Back Injury
- Upper Back Pain
- Hip Pain
- Backaches
- Sciatica Pain
- and many more back pain related ailments.
Colestock Family Chiropractic can treat your back pain with relief using the gentle Activator Method. No more snap, crackle and pop fear for treatment at your neighborhood family chiropractor service.
Call 517.663.8825 today to schedule your appointment to alleviate your lower back pain NOW and realize how gentle and effective the Activator Method is.