Lower back pain: three words that inspire stress and anxiety. Whether you have chronic low back pain or have been involved in a trauma that created the symptom, all you want is relief.
Lower back pain can make sitting, standing, even sleeping challenging. Discomfort can be constant and intense or progress slowly through the day; either way, finding safe and natural low back pain relief may be closer than you think.
This post provides three excellent tips that can naturally eliminate lower back discomfort and contribute to healing. The best part is that your chiropractor will approve of these noninvasive solutions.
Natural Ways to Effectively Reduce Low Back Pain (You Can Do Anywhere)
Lower back pain is one of the leading causes of missing work, exercise, and social engagements. Even minor low backaches can significantly disrupt your day.
Common reasons for lower back pain include:
- Poor posture, ergonomics, or workstation setup
- Habitual poor movement patterns or improper lifting techniques
- Scrolling on a handheld device for long periods
- Wearing inappropriate or unsupportive footwear
- Sedentary behavior
- Overuse injury, often due to sports, exercise, or occupation
- A chronic injury
- A traumatic event, such as sports or auto accident
- Mental stress
These habits or events can lead to injuries that garner heightened lower back pain and other symptoms, including:
- Disc herniation or other spine injury
- Sciatica
- Sprains, strains, and inflammation
- Arthritis
- Nerve impingement or pinched nerves
- And others
Learning the reason for your lower back pain is crucial to ending it; however, sometimes, you need relief now.
Below are three natural tips to help relieve your low back discomfort, and you can do them anywhere.
Exercise, stretch, & physical activity
Engaging in regular exercise and physical activity can strengthen the muscles that support the spine, improve flexibility, and reduce stiffness. Activities such as walking, swimming, yoga, and Pilates can help reduce low back pain by promoting better posture and spinal alignment.
For immediate relief, try these:
- Stand and touch your toes
- Spinal twist
- Seated cat and cow
- Stand and pull the knee to the chest; repeat on the other side
- If you’re sitting, get up and walk around for a couple minutes
- If you’re standing, sit down for a couple minutes
- Remove your shoes and massage your feet
Hot & cold therapy
Applying heat and cold therapy to the affected area can help alleviate low back pain.
Heat therapy, such as a heating pad or warm bath, can relax tight muscles and improve blood flow to the injury, reducing tension, pain, and stiffness.
Cold therapy, such as an ice pack or cold compress, can reduce inflammation and numb the area, relieving pain.
Relaxation techniques
Incorporating relaxation techniques into your daily routine can help relieve tension and stress in the lower back muscles (and the mind). Mental stress is well known to affect us physically and often manifests in the low back and hips.
Try these relaxation techniques:
- Deep, rhythmic belly breathing through and out of the nose
- Meditation
- Muscle relaxation techniques (stretches and massage)
- Remove yourself from a stressful situation
- Get fresh air
These solutions can reduce muscle and mental tension, reducing lower back discomfort and promoting overall comfort.
Work With Our Orem Chiropractor for Lasting Low Back Pain Relief
While we love the tips referenced above, we want to give you peace of mind, knowing that your body is safe and properly healing as efficiently as possible.
At our Orem chiropractic clinic, we use a streamlined, comprehensive approach to care. We find the cause of your low back pain so the optimal strategy can be designed. We want you to heal effectively as your body strengthens so it can better support the demands placed on it.
Our wellness team will create a recovery plan based on your unique injury, abilities, and needs, utilizing several chiropractic services and ensuring your comfort along the way.
The chiropractic solutions we offer have treated many imbalances related to low back pain using safe techniques, including:
- Massage therapy
- Soft tissue therapy (IASTM)
- Sports medicine
- Dry needling
- Kinesio taping
- Injury rehabilitation
- Auto accident rehabilitation
- And more
We complement our in-clinic modalities with guidance regarding everything from posture to lifestyle to exercise and movement habits.
Pain is not supposed to be part of your everyday. You deserve to live pain-free, and our experienced Orem chiropractor is prepared to give you the care you need. Let us help your body heal so you can thrive. Book with us today.