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You tried all home remedies and alternative treatments for your back pain and still the pain persists? Stop worrying. Modern medicine has many solutions to relieve this annoying pain. Medical stores offer quite a variety of non-prescription and prescription drugs to treat pain.

However, most of these drugs should not be taken without an authentic prescription and information. It would be prudent for you to know your pain as well as your medicine before popping those pills. Pain is a complex symptom resulting from an underlying pathological process that’s affecting your back. Identification of the causative disorder and selection of the relevant drug is the key to alleviate pain without experiencing significant side effects.

Several classes of commonly prescribed drugs for the treatment of back pain are:

Acetaminophen – Acetaminophen (Tylenol®) belongs to drugs that are classified as para-aminophenol derivatives. It acts as an analgesic. The accepted oral dosage is 325 to 1000-mg every six hours, with a minimum gap of 4 hrs within 24-hours. The usage must not exceed 4000-mg in a day. It is generally available as over the counter medication and is relatively inexpensive. While effective against mild to moderate pain in some acute back pain situations, it fails to extend desirable effects against inflammation, muscle spasm or sleep disturbance.

Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs - NSAIDs serve as anti-inflammatory and analgesic agents. Some common NSAIDs are Aspirin, Salsalate, Diflunisal, Ibuprofen, Indomethacin, Meclofenamate, Piroxicam etc. The dosage and cost of each NSAID varies significantly by its chemical family and agent. Side effects include central nervous system indicated drowsiness, dizziness, and confusion.

Muscle Relaxants - Muscle relaxants are a group of different drugs in which each of the drugs has an overall sedative effect on the body. Contrary to the name, they act centrally in the brain, thereby relaxing the whole body. These are generally prescribed in the early stages of pain to break the pain-spasm-pain vicious circle. Carisoprodol (Soma), Diazepam (Valium), Cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril) are common muscle relaxants. Sedation is the most common side effect.

Opioids- Opioids, such as morphine, oxycodone, oxymorphone and fentanyl, are potent analgesics. These alleviate pain by binding with specific opioid receptors in the central nervous system and in other tissues. Nausea, sleeplessness, constipation, etc. remain some side effects of these drugs. When prescribed, opioids should be used on a defined dosing schedule and not on a p.r.n. (as needed) basis.

Corticosteroids – Corticosteriods demonstrate anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects. Back pain from conditions such as herniated discs is usually treated with corticosteroids. The medication is generally injected in the acute phase of pain.

Colchicine - Colchicine is a toxic natural product that’s originally extracted from plants of the genus colchicum. It is reputed as one of the most powerful anti-inflammatory drug known. FDA has banned injectible form of colchicines due to reported fatalities. The approved versions of colchicine are tablets that also contain the active ingredient probenecid. There are no approved products that contain only colchicine as an active ingredient.

Anti-depressants – Tricyclic and tetra cyclic anti depressants are used to treat chronic and non-specific back pain. Their use as analgesics is often debated. While anti-depressants have been demonstrated as useful adjuncts in the treatment of pain, their analgesic mechanism remains unclear.

 

Hundreds of options are available to get rid of and recover from low back pain. Exercise is one of them. It is nothing but the right treatment at the right time to heal your pain through exercise once you got the back pain. Exercises like stretching, strengthening, and aerobic play a great role in the rehabilitation and healing process though it takes some time to fully get recovered from the ongoing back pain.

 

Proper back pain exercises only can help reduce the back pain and get you back to the fitness. Exercise gradually helps in a checked manner promoting progress and healing the condition of the back pain. Exercises work as a natural stimulant in the curing procedure. Appropriate exercises and restoration programs quicken oxygen and blood circulation in the vital organs of our nervous system and make aware of the muscles’ comprehensive role in the restoration process to get relief from back pain.

 

There are some particular exercises for lower back pain which can help your back pain. One of them is the gentle stretching of your back muscles. We can do this by lying on our back gently bending our knees to our chest and repeating if for couple of times and gradually making it more and more. Exercises make us active in our daily life making our muscles fit and healthy and back pain get reduced and in course of time it vanishes. Our motto should be to make us overall fit and active through various exercises which can improve regaining the normal functions of our muscles.

 

Physical training improves the function of the injured muscles. Exercise also helps the physical and psychological injuries a person undergoing through the back pain.

Exercise encourages the correct postures and gives rest to the muscles to regain their normal condition through emotional and physical healing.

 

While doing exercise to get rid of back pain we should also give proper attention to the eating habits which in the process help us healing the back pain. We have to take care of the nutritional calories intake appropriately. Apart from adequate fresh fruits and vegetables we should take lots of proteins in our diets which are very much helpful as they are the source of essential nutrients and vitamins to provide effective healing to our back problems.