How to Cure Back Pain Fast at Home? 7 Tips for Quick Relief

Last updated on February 13th, 2023 at 01:14 pm

How to cure back pain fast at home?

You can get rid of your back pain by following some of the most effective yet simple home tips, but thing is that you must know these tips. Your back pain can be sometimes very severe or it can be a mild irritating type that confuses you about what to be done at home. Whatever be the here in this article I am going to break down 7 ways to relieve back pain that too at home.

How to cure back pain fast at home

Here are the 7 tips. You can follow a single tip at a time or a combination of them at your convenience.

1# Rest is important to relieve back pain

So the first point I would like to cover is rest, rest is very important if you have severe back pain. Perhaps your doctor must have advised you to bed rest for a few days or a week. Actually, rest allows the internal injuries to heal, it helps to relieve inflammation and swelling.

Bed rest in such a terrible pain is necessary, but the thing is you can not always remain in bed. You also need to do toilet activity, your minimum daily chorus. That is why localizing the rest at the lower back by wearing a lumbar belt around the waist is important.

The lumbar belt sometimes called a back pain belt is a corset that is wrapped around the painful back so as to prevent any kind of motion there. This way it helps to localize the rest in the lumbar area promoting healing and reduction of inflammation is swelling.

If you are thinking to get a back pain belt for yourself must go through this article to select the proper size and best fit.

2# Pain balm /muscle relaxant for back pain cure

When an individual is suffering from lower back pain there also develops inflammation and muscle spasm around it. The application of good pain balm and muscle relaxant oils is very very beneficial. I would recommend using balm just before the bed for maximum benefit.

If you have pain, simply apply a pain ointment over the painful area and let the body absorb it for 10 minutes. After a gap of ten minutes apply a hot pack over the area and you would feel almost instant relief. Here are two nutraceutical products I would highly recommend to you. These are natural products prepared from extracts from plants and herbs and do not have any side effects.

3# Hot packs

The next answer to how to cure back pain fast at home is the use of heat treatment. In my 15 years of clinical practice, I have found that hot treatment gives almost instantly pain. There are several modes of applying hot treatment like the use of an electric Heating pad, hot water bottle, or simply application of hot fomentation.

But out of all these heating devices, my favourite method is the use of infrared lamps.  An infrared lamp is simply and lamps with an infrared bulb that emits red colour light giving a comfortable warmth. Just plug it and it is ready to use, apply it over your painful area for 5-10 minutes for maximum benefit.

You can learn more about these lamps in one of my previous articles “What’s Infrared Lamp in Physiotherapy, When & How to Use“.

4# TENS/ Nerve stimulation

TENS or in simple terms “nerve stimulation” is also and very effective way to instantly control lower back pain. The nerve stimulation is applied through a portable TENS machine which is very easy to use. It is a portable battery-operated device that you can keep in your pocket and use anywhere anytime.

In its application, It gives you a massage kind of effect or a soothing tingling type of sensation, it works on the principle of Pain Gate Theory to relieve the pain instantly.

5# Physiotherapy for low back pain

Sometimes if nothing works, no heat treatment, or other home tips then you must consider taking the help of a qualified physiotherapist. A well equipped Physiotherapy Centre has several treatment options and equipment for almost any kind of back pain.

They will treat your back pain in a step-by-step method in which first they will try to control your severe pain and then they will advise you of the home exercises program which really helps in improving back pain.

6# Proper sitting posture

The way you sit during the desk job plays a very crucial role in healing back pain, the wrong posture will further damage your lower back and a correct posture helps in healing the back pain.

I have already made a post on a proper way of sitting at a desk “Desktop Ergonomics, These 5 Adjustments You Need To Do” which you may go through for detailed information.

7# To cure back pain fast at home adopt proper sleeping posture

Sleeping posture is very important when you are suffering from very severe pain. In general, we don’t recommend using a very soft mattress to sleep which is not good for the back and neck.

So, if you have severe pain, there are three different sleeping postures you can adopt. Whether you want to sleep on your back, on your tummy, or on your side, you can modify your sleeping posture by arranging the pillows (as you can see in the figure). Please follow this link for a more detailed article on it.

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