Pain Relievers

An exercise program would be very helpful. Certainly after you have had a baby, your abdominal or stomach muscles remain somewhat stretched for a while. The abdominal muscles, as well as the back muscles, give support to the upper body. With time these muscles should return to normal, but an exercise program can help strengthen [...]

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Q.I have an eight-week-old baby. I’ve had my six-week postpartum checkup and everything is great. However, I’ve started having some mild back pain. I think it is from carrying my son up and down the stairs all day — I change him in his nursery and then come back down to the living area.

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Q. Can you tell me about a device called TENS? Will it relieve my back pain? A. TENS stands for transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation. The device is intended to relieve pain by preventing pain signals from reaching your brain. TENS is safe and painless, but it isn’t always effective. With TENS, small electrodes are placed [...]

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Do you have lower back pain? Then you probably hear people say, ‘If you strengthen your abdominal muscles, then your lower back problems will subside.’ This is partially true, but you have to strengthen your gluteal muscles, (buttocks) too. This article will help you get your … rear in gear!

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Moaning’s Law Just let the subject of lower back ache come up in a group and what started out a tidy conversation develops into a free-for-all, with men and women, old and young, fighting to share their woes.

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It is very possible that at least 50% of backaches are mentally induced, the wages of the sin of nervous tension. The spinal column houses the spinal cord, a main pipeline of the nervous system. Nerves continually on edge constantly nudge at the muscles surrounding them. Tension pinches blood vessels like a vise. Thus dammed [...]

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