Lower Back Pain Relief - Learn The Cause To Find The Cure

It may get frustrating to have to deal with lower back pain even while the doctors are struggling to determine the cause of the condition. It is a well known fact that it is difficult to pinpoint the reason of lower back pain even after many medical diagnostic tests have been carried out. Many people will resort to self help remedies in the quest to relieve themselves of their lower back pain. And when they do manage to do so it is a very satisfying feeling.

If you suffer from lower back pain and you can handle it with some sort of spray or balm freely available in the market it is ok. However, when the back pain just does not go away completely and lingers on for a couple of months it is best to get yourself to the doctor to try and determine the cause f the pain. In most cases the cause of the lower back pain will be some prescription drug that been prescribed to you and you have been taking it over a period of time. Many drugs are known to cause lower back pain if taken over an extended period of time. Stopping the use of these drugs can alleviate the pain. If stopping the drug does stop the pain it is best to stop taking the drug altogether.

There are other causes of lower back pain though and these are picking up heavy objects, bad posture, over exercise, lack of exercise and sleeping of too hard a surface or too soft a surface. Determining what caused the back pain is a difficult task but for the person suffering from the condition experimenting with a trial and error method for a few weeks or days is not difficult to pinpoint what s causing the condition. Once you have discovered that changing something about yourself, be it the way you sleep, walk, sit or change some medication actually makes your back feel better you can experiment further and alleviate the condition altogether by making permanent changes about yourself.

However, while you are still trying to discover what it is that is causing you such discomfort it is also not necessary to live with the pain. You could resort to some home made therapies to deaden the pain if it becomes too unbearable. One of these home remedies is 'inversion therapy'. This is a therapy where a patient can design a contraption to help reduce or sometimes even cure his or her back pain.

Inversion therapy requires very simple equipment - a board of wood or plank if you want to call it that. This board must be at least 1 foot wide a couple of inches thick and 6 feet long. It is placed on the floor with one side at least 3 feet higher at one end. Then the patient must lie on his or her back on the plank in an inverted fashion - head down feet up. This is practiced for at least 20 minutes a day and is known to relieve back pain by releasing the pressure on the backbone.

Whatever the therapy you try, if the back pain is too severe and lasts for more than 2 months, get yourself over to a doctor - it may be a cause for concern!