Hello

[Sheelz]

Hi everyone, any miracles out there to fix a bad back? Please

[Pinky2233]

im a,big fan of acupuncture and finding the best of the best! check out the heads of the acupuncture schools and see if they take new patients

[Hidden]

I also have had good luck with acupuncture, but took several experiments to find the right provider for me.

[Dawn_2105]

Hi. If you have pain shooting down your leg/legs try reflexology. Your siatic nerve goes all the way down to your heals. I used to get unbearable pain in my heals reflexology helped. Good luck

[Ropes1967tanzania]

Hi I had no luck with any of those things and got really desperate. What got me moving and almost pain free ( finally), started when I read a book by john sarno- healing back pain. I'd read so many books by then but his approach made so much sense to me. He then has a supportive blog and specialists you can speak to on line which helped me to do the work to get better. You have nothing to loose, why not try it?

[Hermes123]

Hermes123, If there is? then no one has told me in nearly fifty years, I had always lived in hope a cure would be found! but I am afraid it won't be in my lifetime, there have been so many false hope's till now, but you never know you may turn out to be one of the lucky one's, Arthritis and Osteoarthritis seem to be the Cinderella organisations when it comes to true relief or cures. a neglected research side of the N.H.S. as regards research funding as to regards of other serious decease funding, so much money spent on trying to help people get on with lives as best possible, but one has to fight living with pain on a daily basis. No I know it is not what one likes to hear, but unfortunately that is the reality so one has to set one's mind that's how! is the best way for a certain individual to adjust to their set of circumstances as best possible, the sooner one starts to adjust makes your circumstance easier to manage. Sorry to be blunt about this situation, but the quicker one try's to sort there situation, the less likely one is able to cope and could end up with a better quality of life.

[Dekam]

My husband had just tryed float pod.its like a massage but no one is touching you. You float in salty water for hour 1/2. In a pod and my husband came gome like a brand new person no more back pains.try Google float pods

[Hermes123 in reply to Dekam]

Hermes 123. Never heard of float pod? can you tell me more please, is it private or a hospital clinic, I know salt water is suppose to be good for ones back, but never heard of such a thing over here in the UK.

[deejames]

Depends what you mean by a bad back. If it's short term and muscular then stretching, ice packs and keeping moving. The look at why it happened in the first place. Bad posture, overweight, poor core muscles, lack of exercise, bad lifting and bending habits.

A physio or chiropractor will help working out why.

Acupuncture works for some, massage for others, time for some.

Dee

[Nin123]

Oh how I wish there were, I am on pain patches which help, I put my first one on on Wednesday and it's running out already, painkillers help a bit but not much

[johnsmith]

Bad back can mean a lot of things. So treatment which fixes one thing may not work for another thing. So please can you expand upon what you mean.

[dtech in reply to johnsmith]

It is a bit vague isn't it? This is what gets me about these sites sometimes (sorry for any offence I know people are trying to help). But people pile in with all sorts of diagnosis and treatments which,at best, are expensive and ineffective and, at worse, can actually cause further damage.

[johnsmith in reply to dtech]

A diagnosis is based on symptoms. Unfortunately a range of different symptoms can be caused by a number of different things. The treatment that is needed depends on the cause. You then have the problem that a person's response to treatment can vary. So you have to determine where is the person on the treatment curve response. There is a need for the person with the condition to develop tools to investigate their own condition so that there is a dialog between person and medical person offering treatment.

A lot of treatments on offer is what has been on offer for a long time (many years). Because the treatment on offer is historically been what has been offered no one medically is checking whether this is a good treatment.

The physical treatment is very dependant on how sensitive a person's hands are. Sensitivity is needed in order to be able to know what sort of changes are needed between one person and another.

This is why things can be okay at full moon and not so okay at half moon. The hand sensitivity may not be the same. How does one deal with such subtleties if such subtleties exist. I do not know. How many operations cease to be successful because the surgeon does not consider a variable that is needed to be considered.

Being prescribed medicines pill or liquid or patch removes the need for hand sensitivity. However the area that is causing the problem is not changed it is just pain deadened.

Hope I have not rambled to much.