Physiotherapy management of back pain

Lower back pain causes a great difficulty and hindrance in daily lifestyle. Physiotherapy plays an important role in managing back pain, it relieves your pain and unlocks your mobility.
Here are some of the aspects of lower back pain management by physiotherapy.

Thermotherapy– Heating the surrounding back areas can increase blood circulation and decrease muscle stiffness, this soothing back pain.

Cupping Therapy – A Chinese therapy method which creates vacuum and lift up the body tissues, which in turns can increase blood flow, break the adhesions and relaxes the muscles around.

Dry needling – Needling on taut muscle bands is one of the fastest and most effective way of back pain release.

Stretching – By stretching certain tense areas, may increase elasticity of tissues and decrease back pain.

Exercise therapy – most effective way of treating back pain is strengthening of back muscles and surrounding muscles. Core muscles and gluteus plays an important role, thus focusing on these two along with other musclesay soothen the pain.

Electrotherapy – Like transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation blocks the sensation of pain,this relieves the pain. Interferential therapy goes deep into the muscles and promotes muscle relaxation. Thus are alternating way of reducing pain.

Patient education is must. Educating the patient about what is the right way of sitting , right way doing any particular job is the ultimate way of keeping a check on the default. Thus,pointing and correcting the cause is the best way to treat the symptoms.