Why Do I Have Back Pain During Sexual Intercourse?

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Is Back Surgery My Only Answer?

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Best Exercises To Reduce Low Back Pain For People With A Sway Back

Most people try to treat sway back without ever addressing the psoas muscle.  This is a huge mistake and will only lead to frustration because nothing is changing.  Obviously, stretching the psoas isn’t the only thing that needs to be done, but it’s the first thing that needs to be done.

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Exercises For Herniated Discs & Sciatica Pain

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Best Treatment For Spondylolisthesis

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Can Pilates Exercises Help Spinal Stenosis?

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Trigger Point Injections

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Spinal Decompression Therapy

Spinal decompression or traction has received considerable attention recently as an effective treatment modality for sciatica, herniated disc, and low back pain.  Spinal decompression is thought to work on the affected herniated disc by significantly reducing pressure within the disc by means of a traction force applied to the spine.

Spinal decompression can be applied in several ways including specialized spinal decompression devices (e.g. Vax-D, SpineMed, or DRX 9000), manually by an experienced therapist or doctor, or through the use of your own body weight as with inversion therapy.

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Physical Therapy

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Prolotherapy

Sciatica and back pain can be the result of degenerative changes in the joints and soft tissues associated with the spine.  One of the many treatment options available to people suffering with acute or chronic pain is prolotherapy.

Proliferation Injection Therapy, also known as, “Prolotherapy”, is a technique by which a series of injections are used to stimulate the body’s natural healing of damaged tissues.  Various proliferative substances are injected into ligaments, tendons, and joints to encourage repair of damaged areas.  Specifically, Prolotherapy is used to:

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Massage Therapy

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Facet Joint Injections

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Medications

Medication Use for Sciatica and Back Pain

Opioids, also known as narcotics, are utilized for their analgesic or pain relieving properties.  Opioids bind to the opioid receptors in the brain which, in turn, release endorphins to achieve pain relief. Most musculoskeletal pain responds to opioids as do some forms of headache pain. Common brand names of prescribed opioids include Darvacet, Vicodin, Lortab, Vicoprofen, Oxycodone, morphine, and Duragesic patches.

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Epidural Injections

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Back Surgery

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Alternative Treatment

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Chiropractic

Chiropractic, a profession with those “for” and “against” it. It seems those for the Chiropractic way of helping back pain give glowing testimonials, and those against damning ones. Why?

As with all professions there are good and bad practitioners. The technique itself has good aspects and those not so good. It is up to individual practitioners as to which techniques they use and how they will apply them.

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