A lot of people miss work because of chronic back pain. It can be so severe at times that it prevents you from carrying out your daily household duties. Dr. Kevin McElroy offers you custom treatment plans to reduce your pain and restore the quality of your life. Call or schedule an appointment online if you are dealing with persistent, excruciating back pain. Below are treatment options:
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Point Injections
It is a procedure used to treat the painful muscle areas that contain knots that form when muscles fail to relax. The doctor injects the trigger point with a local anesthetic making the site inactive, relieving the pain. This approach is used to treat legs, lower back pain, and arms. Such drugs include Botox that hinders signals to the muscles from the nerves. It is also useful in treating chronic migraine headaches.
Bioelectric Therapy
It helps to ease the pain by blocking pain messages from reaching the brain. It also enhances the production of endorphins that reduce painful sensation by hindering pain messages to the brain. Bioelectric therapy treats chronic conditions such as muscle pain, headaches, back pain, and arthritis. When used together with other medications, it reduces pain by up to half the intensity.
Exercise
Rest helps ease the pain, but too much of it may increase the discomfort or increase the chances of injury when you finally decide to start movements. Exercise causes the body to release endorphins and improves the muscle tone to reduce chronic pain. Try biking, walking, yoga, and swimming.
Physical Therapy
It uses special methods to improve the movement of an area after injury. Physical therapy uses stretching, pain-relieving techniques, and strengthening to help in treatment.
Acupuncture
It decreases the pain by increasing the body’s release of endorphins to block pain messages. Acu-points are located near the nerves, so when stimulated, they cause a dull ache that sends a signal to the central nervous system to release endorphins. It is useful to treat headaches, menstrual cramps, and low back pain.
Chiropractic Therapy
This is the most well-known non-surgical method. It has been proven to reduce neck and back pain. Massage is also a technique that reduces stress and tension by enhancing blood flow. Massage will remove any substance that generates and sustains pain. The two methods are effective in treating back pain.
Change Of Diet
Studies suggest that taking a low-fat vegetable diet decreases the duration and intensity of pain. Weight loss from the change in diet helps people with osteoarthritis conditions. Research to establish the effectiveness of diet modification in treating pain is still in progress.
Drug Therapy
Mild pain can be eased by taking certain over the counter drugs such as aspirin, naproxen, and ibuprofen. They relieve muscle aches and pains. There are also creams available that are applied in the area of injury. However, if the problem persists after medication, one should seek medical attention.
Pain has a variety of causes and many more effective treatment methods. The doctor will evaluate your current health and lifestyle before prescribing a suitable treatment plan. If you are dealing with chronic pain, book an appointment online with Progressive Spine & Sports Medicine.
Hip flexors in human anatomy are a group of muscles in the skeleton that assist to move the knee forward, by stretching the femur or thighbone to the lumbopelvic complex. They are also known as the iliopsoas or the muscles of the inside hip, they are comprised of Psoas major, Psoas minor, and Iliacus muscles. The hip flexor muscle group situated in your abdomen as well as the thigh area is activated when you get up from a sitting position or perform a dance on stairs, climb steps or play soccer, or run even when you perform resistance exercise.
The hip flexors allow the movements up and down of your legs, and simultaneously aid in balancing the spine’s strength, they are the most powerful muscles of your body. The issue is that a life that is a lot of sitting time causes the hip flexor muscles to shrink, causing issues that extend from our backs to our feet. The aging process or sleeping in a fetal posture will also increase the speed of the flexor shortening process. To stop this issue, the release of Psoas can be extremely beneficial through a massage or physical therapist, or by using an instrument for self-massage like the QL Claw.
