Despite the prevalence and seeming harmlessness, lower back pain can be a symptom of a dangerous disease. Not to mention the fact that pain itself creates constant discomfort, reduces the quality of life, and limits the patient’s activity. Meanwhile, many, feeling such pain, attribute it to an increased load or a sedentary lifestyle, perceive it as an inevitability and live with it for years.
Treatment Methods for Low Back Pain
Based on age, gender, body condition, and other factors, first of all, physiotherapy exercises and kinesiotherapy are used. They help not only to cope with acute and chronic pain, but also to improve the level of physical fitness, well-being, and general health and, as a result, work on the quality of life and movement.
An invaluable role in the elimination of diseases of the spine is played by physiotherapy, primarily treatment with the help of magnetic and laser exposure, and sinusoidal modulated currents.
Other methods by which it is possible to restore the normal state of the low back:
- acupuncture — active stimulation of problem areas according to the doctor’s recommendations;
- manual therapy, which, thanks to the skill and experience of a specialist, improves the functioning of the musculoskeletal system;
- therapeutic massage prescribed after the diagnosis and examination of the patient.
As a rule, physiotherapy is prescribed outside the phase of exacerbation of the disease. Electrophoresis using medicinal solutions allows you to quickly eliminate pain, and muscle spasms and improve mobility in the spine.
Physiotherapy exercises, kinesiotherapy, along with physiotherapy and other methods listed above, are used as effective methods of preventing back pain. After all, any problem is easier to prevent than to fix. And this is very important for a pain syndrome that can disrupt the normal rhythm of a person’s life.
Therapeutic Effects of Physiotherapy for Low Back Pain
The positive effect of hardware physiotherapy for low back pain is due to the following effects:
- normalization of metabolic processes at the cellular and tissue level;
- improvement of microcirculation in the spinal column;
- removal of muscle spasms;
- elimination of pain syndrome;
- improvement of tropism in all structures of the spine, including bone, cartilage, and muscle tissue;
- acceleration of the process of restoration of damaged bone and cartilage elements of the spinal column.
When faced with lower back pain, do not ignore it or wait for it to go away on its own. Also, you should not just take analgesics and antispasmodics without doing anything else: this is a fight against the symptoms, not the cause.
