Lower Back Pain
Lower Back Pain
Lower back pain also called Lumbago. It is a common, painful condition affecting the lower portion of the spine.
Lower back pain is caused by injury to a muscle (strain) or ligament (sprain). Common causes include improper lifting, poor posture, lack of regular exercise, fracture, ruptured disk, or arthritis. Often, the only symptom is pain in the lower back.
There are two types of back pain:
Acute, or short-term back pain lasts a few days to a few weeks. Most low back pain is acute. It tends to resolve on its own within a few days with self-care and there is no residual loss of function. In some cases a few months are required for the symptoms to disappear.
Chronic back pain is defined as pain that continues for 12 weeks or longer, even after an initial injury or underlying cause of acute low back pain has been treated. About 20 percent of people affected by acute low back pain develop chronic low back pain with persistent symptoms at one year. Even if pain persists, it does not always mean there is a medically serious underlying cause or one that can be easily identified and treated. In some cases, treatment successfully relieves chronic low back pain, but in other cases pain continues despite medical and surgical treatment.
How Acupuncture can treat Lower Back Pain
Acupuncture and related therapies are a time-tested, safe, effective, natural and drug-free way for treating acute and chronic pain. There are no side effects. It can help relieve the symptoms associated with lower back pains. It helps by re-establishing the healthy flow of energy and blood to the affected area thus reducing inflammation and soreness, while helping the body to repair itself.
We have long-year experience to deal with lower back pains. Different treatment steps will be employed to treat Acute Lower Back Pain and Chronic One. If Sciatica pain is associated with the lower back pain, Tui-Na manipulation would be needed to enhance the pain treatment. Further more, some lower back pain has the cause of internal problem. For example, lady's sacrum area pain may caused by pelvic inflammation. Some kind of herbal medicine formula would be introduced to the treatment.