What Treatment for Low Back Pain and When?
Since 85% of low back pain is still undiagnosable and as such difficult to prescribe appropriate treatment for the best rule of thumb is to begin by attempting to relieve the pain using the simplest, most cost effective and non-invasive methods possible. The simplest and by far the most cost effective forms of treatment are things like exercising or laying on your back with legs up and resting on a chair or sofa etc and for many causes of low back pain these may help. These treatments are self administered so if something like exercising creates more pain instead of relieving it then you can quickly move on to something else. Figuring out which treatment relieves and which doesn’t generally happens very quickly and no matter what advise is given from what source, the treatment that causes aggravation is one to avoid and the one that relieves is one to continue with. Based on invasiveness, treatment for low back pain can generally be grouped into three categories; non-invasive, moderate
