Natural remedies for severe lower back pain?

Question

I see my chiropractor tomorrow. What can I do in the mean time? I am trying the homeopathic remedy arnica montana, and just had a long hot bath. Very helpful. At least I can move now. :) Any other ideas? Thanks so much. (Ouch!)

Answer 1

Now that you have had a nice hot bath, you should ice your back to try an reduce any inflammation. Your DC can do the rest.

Answer 2

Your chiropractor should be able to prescribe a Home Exercise Program (HEP). The exercises may depend on the extent of your injury. Your goal may be to strengthen the muscles supporting that area and to assure the disc, if injured, remains filled with its cushioning fluid.

You may have what people often call a "partly-ruptured" lumbar disc. The actual term is a herniated lumbar disc.
Read about this condition at http://www.spine.org/articles/herniatedlumbardisc.cfm.

I suffered a partly-herniated lumbar disc two years ago. My insurer would not pay for a MRI or physical therapy, so I put myself on a Home Exercise Program. My exercises were done in my hot tub (yes, I'm lucky to have one) and included these: http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1998/298_exer.html

Lower back pain is the #1 reasons Americans visit their physicians. Your chiropractor should be able to treat your symptoms and provide exercise suggestions. Good luck!

Answer 3

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While looking for a miracle cure, it has to be understood that sciatica pain in itself is not a disease. It is actually a symptom or a group of symptoms with an underlying cause that needs to be targeted if some sort of permanent pain relief is what one is looking for. But one thing is absolutely clear. Incorporating a few exercises that have a beneficial effect on sciatica pain in daily regime is of great help and whether a patient is taking drugs or not, these exercises ensure that his muscles are kept in a toned condition that lessen any flare up of pain. Just a few stretching exercises can bring about a drastic change in the levels of pain and signify the importance of exercise in the management of sciatica pain.

Answer 4

One of the most important things for you to be aware of is; the low back pain is brought about by the unequal muscle tension of the lumbar spine. One side becomes shorter from disuse or has some degree of atrophy. It becomes imperative to accompany your treatments with regular stretching of that shorter muscle and attempt to have some equality returned to that area of the back.

One of the more significant factors to bring this condition to its symptomatic status is, more than 50%of the population has an evident short leg. Meaning the spine must adapt to this deficiency and make the necessary adjustments to maintain the head above the feet.

You can determine which side is shorter with a simple maneuver of putting the feet together and then closing the eyes. You will have a tendency to want to fall toward the shorter side. This deficiency can be accommodated simply by placing two of dr. Scholl's pads into the shoe of the shorter side.

You must remember to stretch the muscles of the shorter side of the lumbar spine daily. Considering 90% of your success depends on what you do, not what the doctor does. He/she, will get you relief but not the recovery of what you have lost over a period of time. A retraining of spinae erector muscles is in order.

Answer 5

Your chiropractor would be in a better position to recommend or prescribe for you and what you should be doing to reduce or eliminate the pains ultimately. Good luck.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

accupuncture. It worked for my dad when the Chiro didn't.

Answer 8

Homeopathic remedies are prescribed according to the patients individual symptoms, though ARNICA is the most prescribed medicine in all sorts of pains and aches but if the patient does not have the symptoms it is prescribed for it will just help temporarily. Please read the following carefully :-

Lumbago is defined as mild to severe pain or discomfort in the area of the lower back. The pain can be acute (sudden and severe) or chronic if it has lasted more than three months. Lumbago often occurs in younger people whose work involves physical effort and is not uncommon in people of retirement age.

In the majority of cases, it is impossible to identify the exact cause of backache. In about 25 per cent of cases, however, it is possible to identify the cause. Often, these patients are suffering from conditions like a slipped disc, osteoporosis (brittle bones), deformation of natural spine curvature (scoliosis) or more rarely, skeletal damage due to tumours or infection. Muscle spasm produced by faulty posture, injury or strain can itself cause pain.

Backache, Lumbago - Treatment & Homeopathic Medicines

#Rhus toxicodendron [Rhus.t]
A violent pain in the back, as if broken, is the greatest characteristic of Rhus in the backache. It is more characteristic than the symptom "relief from motion," for Rhus may be indicated where the patient is worse from motion. Rhus seems to be especially suitable to affections of the deeper muscles of the back. There are great pains,dull,bruised, and aching on attempting to rise, showing,thus, the aggravation on commencing motion. It is more suitable to the chronic forms of lumbago, while Aconite suits the acute forms, and will often times give prompt relief. Baehr prefers Tartar emetic even to Rhus and Arnica in lumbago. The backache of Rhus is better from pressure, but worse in bed. The Rhus patient likes to lie on sometime hard. Natrum muriaticum has this same symptom--backache relieved by lying on something on hard. The Rhus pains are relieved by bending backwards. Sulphur has lumbar pains, with sudden loss of power to move; worse before a storm, reminding of Rhododendron. Petroleum and Ruta have pains in the back in the morning before rising. In Staphisagria these pains compel the patient to get up early and move about. This symptom is found also under Kali carbonicum; it comes on about 3 A.M., and is accompanied by pains shooting down the buttocks. Ledum has a stiffness in the back, similar to that experienced when one sits still for a long time. Hypericum has aching in small of back and stitches, and is especially useful in women who are forced to lift and strain and go up and down stairs frequently. Bryonia. Suits a lumbago of a quiet type, with great aggravation on moving. Gnaphalium will sometimes cure a chronic backache, a tired aching in the lumbar region that saps one's strength and ambition. Worse from continued motion, better resting, especially on the back. The more chronic the backache the better indicated the remedy.

#Calcarea fluorica [Calc.f]
This remedy has quite a clinical reputation for curing backache, and especially the backache simulating spinal irritation. It has pain in the lower part of the back, with a fullness or burning pain. Lumbago worse on beginning go move and relieved by continued motion, or lumbago from stains, will find in Calcarea fluorica its remedy when Rhus fails. The temperament and general constitutional characteristics of Calcarea may be present. It also follows Rhus well. Kali phosphoricum, another of the tissue remedies, has a rheumatic lameness worse after rest, and on just commencing to move; there is a paralytic tendency, worse on rising from sitting position. Some remedies have a backache worse from sitting, notably Cobalt, Zincum, Sepia, and Cannabis Indica. Lumbago worse when first beginning to move may call for Anacardium or Conium, as well as for Rhus.

#Nux vomica [Nux.v]
Another remedy in backache, especially if referable to spinal affections, is Nux vomica. It is in the lumbar region is worse at night when lying in bed, of a drawing, lacerating or bruised character, with perhaps sudden stitches in the back, and a characteristic is that the patient must sit up in bed to turn over. It has also a morning backache, and the longer the patient lies in the bed the more the backaches. The backache brought on by sexual excesses should lead to the consideration of both Nux and Staphisagria. Stiff neck and torticollis may also be benefited by Nux. Phosphorus has intense burning pains in the spine between the scapulae, with sensitive dorsal spines, and Secale has a sudden catch or kind in the back. Lycopodium. Burning as from coals between the scapulae; stiffness and pain in the small of the back corresponds to this remedy.

#Oxalic acid [Ox-Ac]
has an acute pain in the back relived by change of posture; back seems too weak to support the body. The pains are worse when thinking of them, accompanied by debility and numb feeling in the limbs, aching pain in lower part of the back between shoulders, pain and tenderness, worse from any kind of movement or exertion; pain in spots. Picric acid has heaviness. Oxalic acid numbness.

#Sepia [Sep]
Sepia is very frequently indicated in the backaches which are due to uterine disease. It is a general weakness in the small of the back when walking, and is worse while sitting. Sudden pain in the back, as if struck by a hammer, relieved by pressing back upon something hard. Aesculus is often a useful remedy in backache which, like Sepia's is worse when walking. It is a severe, continuous, dull aching in the lumbo-sacral region, affecting the sacrum and hips, and the back "give out" when walking. Backache during pregnancy will often be suggestive of Aesculus, when especially worse from walking or stooping. Cimicifuga has violent aching in the back in women,dependent on uterine complaints, especially in rheumatic subjects. Aurand says no remedy has served him so well for the relief of lumbago or "crick in the back" as Cimicifuga.

The above article is from :- http://www.hpathy.com/diseases/backache-symptoms-treatment-cure.asp

Take the remedy which is similar to your symptoms. No side effects or complications if taken as directed, please do not exceed the given dosage and under any circumstances do not try to mix any remedies and avoid Chocolates, Mints, Coffee, Red Meat, Alcoholic and Carbonated drinks, Spicy Rich Food while taking any Homeopathic remedies, and keep the medicines away from direct sunlight, heat strong smells and perfumes and do not store them in the fridge.
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I hope the provided information proves to be of help to you, feel free to email me with your symptoms if you need any help with Homeopathic medicine for your backache.

Take Care and God Bless you.