If you suffer from chronic back pain, you might be asking yourself "What can I do to get out of this pain?". We've compiled a list of five handy tips to help reduce your pain.

Treating Pain vs Masking Pain

It creaks in the night. It stops you dead in your tracks. You can't leave home because it is out there, waiting for you.  It will take you in the night when you make your next strenuous move. Your fear of recurring back or neck pain has left you a recluse, shut away, unable to interact with society.

“It’s no fun getting old.” How often do we hear someone in their 50s, and 60s utter those words of despair as they instinctively reach for their lower back in a momentary grimace of agonizing pain? Unfortunately, it’s an all too familiar occurrence because as we age the spine can become more and more cantankerous to deal with. For those with ongoing discomfort, spinal stenosis can be the culprit. Today we review review the best spinal stenosis treatments, so you can get back to enjoying life without grimacing in pain.

It’s unsettling when your doctor has just informed you that you will need open spine fusion surgery to alleviate your back pain and allow you to return to your normal activities. Spinal fusion is considered one of the most invasive of all spine surgeries. It will entail permanently attaching hardware to your spine to stabilize its damaged areas. What you might not be aware of at first is that the same stabilizing results may be achieved through minimally invasive laser spine surgery.

Buddy Hield intercepts the ball from the left just as Jackson infringes on his right. He pivots to cut the blocker from interrupting his drive to the basket. First to the left, then to the right; he ducks, and plunges down the court only seconds away from another victory.  With 3 seconds remaining on the clock, he braces himself for the vital shot. He jumps, shoots, and hears the tranquil “swoosh” as the ball falls through the basket. As his feet land hard on the court surface the force of his descent sends a shock through his body. His lower limbs and spine bear the burden of the descending weight increased by the gravity from his jump.  The impact is only minimally reduced by the Dr. Scholl’s shock absorbing inserts Coach prompted the team to employ this season. This constant twisting, extending, and leaping in addition to routine weight training and limited recovery time is gradually setting Buddy up for an injury to the discs within his spine.

I am sure you have seen it before…at the grocery store an elderly woman hunched over her shopping cart? Have you ever wondered what causes this? Is it old age? Is it a congenital problem? Is it caused by an injury?