Waking up with back pain is one of the most challenging things to face each morning. You have a whole day ahead of you, and you are walking around in pain. As you struggle with back pain as you try to enjoy your morning coffee, you are unsure how you will make it through another day with being in pain.
However, the good news is that you don’t have to keep suffering. You can do ten things to help alleviate the pain in your back that you are suffering from after waking up. Let’s go over those things now.
Practice Good Posture
Good posture is essential to keep the spine straight and intact to help reduce back pain significantly. Sitting up direct is necessary to do, and if you are afraid you will slump, you need to have a back brace to help you sit up. Slouching will not only ruin your spine but will increase backpain. Therefore, if you work at an office, get a back brace to help you sit up straight.
Get An OTC Pain Reliever
If you are in terrible back pain, you can always run to your pharmacy and get Advil or Tylenol if you don’t have the pain relievers in your medicine cabinet. Just make sure you follow the instructions and don’t rely on them too much. However, for those days when you are in a lot of pain, this will help dull it. If you need prescribed pain medication, then only go that route if you must.
A Prescription Of Antidepressants
Even if you are not struggling with depression, your doctor may prescribe you antidepressants if you have chronic back pain. It is unknown how antidepressants help reduce back pain, but they can, and it is worth a try if this is a constant problem for you.
Physical Therapy
You can benefit from the help of physical therapists who will teach you how to sit and stand so that it helps to keep your spine straight and help to keep back pain at bay. You can learn about exercises that will help make your core muscles strong. Strong core muscles will keep your back supported so you will not struggle with so much back pain in the future.
Don’t Rest
At one time, doctors told their patients with back pain to rest. However, studies show that resting is not how to help heal back pain. The best thing to do is to resist resting and go up and do some exercises. You can walk, swim, or even try yoga to help heal your achy back.
Nerve Stimulation
Have you tried nerve stimulation? Physicians find that transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation or TENS can help with back pain. This therapy does because mild electrical impulses delivered to your nerves tell it to block out any pain they signal to the rest of your body. This is worth a try, but you will want to look and see what your insurance covers.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an alternative medical way of treating various ailments, and back pain are one of them. The belief is that energy in your body called Qi must flow entirely free of blockages to be in good health. If you are dealing with some pain of any kind, you have a blockage that prevents Qi from moving. The needles used with acupuncture help remove those blockages and allow Qi to move again to help remove pain and better health.
Massage Therapy
If you go in for a massage once a week, that can help keep your muscles relaxed so you will not experience so much pain. And what medically trained massage therapists who have a license can do as well is to do spinal manipulation, which can help restore spinal function and improve structural issues within the spine.
Ice And Heat Therapy
This form of therapy is the easiest for back pain. What you want to do is put an ice pack on your back for 20 minutes a few times a day and make sure that you put the ice pack in a towel, so your skin remains protected. That will help to reduce inflammation and pain. Then after three to four days, start switching to heat. Use a heating pad or a microwavable pack to keep your muscles relaxed and allow your blood to flow freely. Don’t sleep on a heating pad. You can also take warm baths and showers.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
How can CBT or talk therapy help with back pain? Studies show that CBT can help reduce back pain as well. For instance, if you think about physical activity negatively, you will likely have back pain. Instead of avoiding it, you would change your response to it, and over time, you will see a decrease in back pain. Sometimes the pain can be a mind over matter thing. You can take pain relievers if you must as well.
Therefore, there are ten ways to help relieve back pain if you wake up from it day after day, and undoubtedly one of those ways, at least one of those methods will help you say ‘goodbye’ to back pain for good.
