Since 85% of low back pain is still undiagnosable and as such difficult to designate acceptable treatment for the best rule of thumb is to begin by attempting to ease the pain using the simplest, most cost productive and non-invasive methods possible.
The simplest and by far the most cost productive forms of treatment are things like exercising or laying on your back with legs up and resting on a chair or sofa etc and for many causes of low back pain these may help. These treatments are self administered so if something like exercising creates more pain instead of relieving it then you can fast move on to something else. Figuring out which treatment relieves and which doesn't generally happens very fast and no matter what suggest is given from what source, the treatment that causes aggravation is one to avoid and the one that relieves is one to continue with.
Based on invasiveness, treatment for low back pain can generally be grouped into three categories; non-invasive, slowly invasive and invasive. The self administered treatments mentioned above fall into the non-invasive kind along with some others that I will mention later.
Invasive treatments are those that wish a surgical course and all condition care givers suggest that these treatments be the "treatment of last resort" after all other treatment options have failed. Because of the undiagnosable nature of low back pain the invasive treatments are often unsuccessful at relieving pain and far too often supervene in "failed back syndrome" a term coined to quote failed back surgery that has left the inpatient worse off.
There has been much advancement in surgical treatments for low back pain which has resulted in an increase in their success rate, although there is still room for improvement.
Moderately invasive treatments consist of opiates and other oral and topical treatments which do not wish a surgical course but do enter and interact with your bodies' chemical functions in one way or someone else to ease pain. These treatments, while productive at masking the pain, do not address the underlying cause and as such can put the sufferer at risk of unknowingly aggravating the situation. slowly invasive treatments should only be used when all non-invasive options have proven non-beneficial.
Advancements have also been made for slowly invasive treatments with more and more new drugs being advanced that more and more effectively block pain but often these are accompanied by increased side effects.
On the non-invasive front there has been much advance as well. Over the past ten years or so there have been many studies and much facts come ready allowing care givers the potential to suggest great and more cost productive non-invasive treatments for acute and chronic low back pain.
It is now generally acknowledged that extended bed rest is not useful for treating low back pain but a quick return to mobility, flexibility and normalcy is. It is also more generally acknowledged that decompression or unloading of discs can ease low back pain and sustain in rejuvenation of the qoute area.
Until recently the qoute has always been that there was no treatment modality that could offer decompression or unloading combined with flexibility and mobility but that all changed with the coming of "ambulatory spinal unloading devices" which do allow for this pain relieving and rejuvenating combination.
So, as a first step for treating your acute or chronic low back pain and as a sober second thought before surgery or opiates, update yourself on the new treatments that are available, treatments that;
1. Are non-invasive, i.e. Do not enter your body like opiates, topical lotions or surgery
2. Can be self administered so that if the treatment aggravates you can quit and if it relieves you can continue at your discretion.
3. Provide spinal decompression or unloading while allowing you to remain movable (ambulatory), flexible and to fast return to your normal daily routine
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