Natural Back Pain Prevention

If you’ve ever suffered from back pain in your life, you’re not alone! According to the Global Burden of Disease 2010, low back pain is the single leading cause of disability worldwide. Conventional medicine often recommends various types of medication to address back pain. These medications typically include NSAIDS, muscle relaxants, antidepressants, and steroids. Unfortunately, medications such as aspirin, Flexeril, Cymbalta, and steroidal injections come with a long list of side effects. These side effects can include everything from digestive discomfort and headaches to seizures and blindness. Additionally, these medications tend to only mask the symptom of pain, instead of addressing the root cause. Keep reading to learn natural back pain prevention techniques.

Natural Back Pain Prevention Techniques

Chiropractic Care

Most people are familiar with the mechanical root causes of back pain. Car accidents, sports injuries, or improper posture and lifting techniques can result in slipped discs and pinched nerves. Chiropractors call this vertebral subluxation, a mechanical compression and irritation to spinal joints and nerves. By adjusting the spine into proper alignment the vertebral subluxation can be corrected, the pressure relieved, and the pain reduced. This means that chiropractic care is a helpful way to reduce back pain.

A study published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics found that after one month of treatment 56% of chiropractic patients reported their pain was much better vs. 13% of medical patients. Spinal manipulations, from an experienced chiropractor, can offer an amazing alternative or supplement to conventional medicine when it comes to treating back pain.

What many people are unaware of, however, are the biochemical root causes of back pain.

Common Biochemical Causes of Back Pain:

Disease of the Internal Organs
Kidney Stones
Kidney Infections
Blood Clots
Bone Loss

Naturopathic care can help reduce back pain.

Unaddressed nutritional deficiencies, a toxic bowel, and a weak mind-body connection can result in various diseases, infections, and bone loss. While a Natural Health Practitioner won’t be able to diagnose any of these conditions, they can teach natural ways to reduce the effects and help prevent the onset of such illnesses. In particular, an excellent way to assess nutritional deficiencies is with an RBTI test. The results reveal what type of diet, lifestyle, supplements, and homeopathic remedies will best support and balance a person’s body chemistry.

In addition, a balanced body chemistry is beneficial in part because it improves a person’s ability to digest and absorb nutrients. This gives a person more benefit from food, decreases the risk of a pain-inducing disease or infection, and provides their body with more natural support for a healthy back.

Naturopathic care, from a Natural Health Practitioner, can be beneficial in the effort to reduce back pain. Moreover, avoid the many side effects of prescription drugs like muscle relaxants and steroids. Learn ways to overcome the causes of back pain naturally with a combination of chiropractic and naturopathic care.