At Bad Backs we witness a full range of approaches to chronic pain management and monitor studies on complementary health with interest, always seeking opportunities to inform and empower the one in ten Australians living with back pain. Â Traditionally western medicine looks at treating the body, often relying on pharmaceuticals or surgery to ease and treat pain.
The human body is an integrated machine. No body part works in isolation. Like the beat of a butterfly’s wings, a minor toe injury can have a huge and unexpected impact on the back. Compare the gait of an able walker with someone who has suffered a recent sprain. They are immediately off-balance.
While an apple a day keeps the doctor away, daily physical activities can improve your back strength, and prevent ongoing pain. If sweating it out at the gym isn’t your thing, then you might like to try something that you can slot into your everyday activities with ease, or share with your friends and family.
Modern remedies for treating back and joint pain have come a long way since the ancient practice of ingesting brewed concoctions of barks, roots, leaves and berries for their healing properties. These days, it is more common to take pills with condensed doses of the active ingredients found within the natural world or synthetic versions of these powerful molecules.
Research results just released from the University of Sydney shows that depression can cause back pain. This new research uncovers a deeper level of the relationship between pain and depression – it is old news that nearly half of back pain patients experience depressive symptoms; we can all understand that persons suffering chronic pain would feel mental distress.
Vitamin D is an essential ingredient for a healthy human body, to absorb calcium and promote bone strength. The greatest source of Vitamin D is not found in any food or over-the-counter supplement; instead, this simple nutrient comes from the sun. Sunlight is abundant in Vitamin D, delivering it to the earth each day through ultraviolet rays.
Back pain may be the result of learning to run before we could walk, in evolutionary terms, according to a new study which has linked a common cause of back pain to our ape ancestry. The study suggests that rapid evolution from walking on all fours to upright on two legs, leaving people with vertebrae similar to chimpanzees susceptible to back pain.
You know your kids should be active, but often they can be found lazing around in front of the TV, video game or computer while the sun shines outside. It’s a scene parents everywhere have lamented. The solution is pretty simple: Get them active by making exercise fun.
In fact, don’t even call it “exercise.” Call it “play” and give them lots of opportunities to do it. If you gently suggest a…
If you are one of the millions of people who suffer with a ‘bad back’, you must first obtain an accurate diagnosis from your chosen practitioner. Your pain may be the result of injury, arthritis, or simply due to the ageing process, whereby joint function may become impaired when cartilage begins to break down.
The discs in our spine contain fibro cartilage, which acts as a shock absorber be…
A prolapsed (herniated) disc occurs when the outer fibres of the intervertebral disc (its annulus) are injured, and the soft material known as the nucleus pulposus, ruptures out of its enclosed space. The prolapsed or ruptured disc material can enter the spinal canal, compressing the spinal cord, but more frequently the spinal nerves.
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