Pain is a sensory and often emotional experience as a result of damage to a part or parts of the body. At the moment while pain can actually be measured, it ca only be experienced by the person to whom it affects. Medicine now has a special department that deals with pain relief called pain management and its importance within health care continues to grow as more long term health issues arise over the years that leave the patient in often continual distress.
Archive of posts filed under the Pain Relief category.
Muscle Relaxants
A common medication prescription given for back pain is for muscle relaxants. Muscle relaxants work well when your muscles are so tense they cause back pain. What I didn’t realize is that science doesn’t know for sure how muscle relaxants work on the muscles. They just know they can calm your nerves and make your [...]
Kill Pain with a Trigger Point Injection
One of the treatments for back pain is called a trigger point injection. A trigger point injection is where anesthetic is injected into muscles to relieve back pain. There can be more than one injection administered at a time. The point of the anesthetic is to deaden the area surrounding the point where the pain [...]
Inversion Table for pain relief
If you have back pain and want to try something that will make it feel better, test a back pain inversion table. The table is easy to use and can be purchased for use at home. Basically it’s a tilting table. You lie on it with your feet under a support so you don’t slide [...]
