Back Pain Tips and Free advice from Birmingham Solihull Back Pain Clinic

Solihull Back Pain Clinic in Hall Green Birmingham is offering Free Consultations for Solihull Birmingham back pain sufferers. Free advice and tips are available on your back pain or backache if you email the clinic or visit the website

www.solihullbackpainclinic.co.uk

Staffed by experienced Osteopaths and Physiotherapists they have a wealth of experience in treating back pain. Osteopaths can offer alternative treatments to Chiropractors and Chiropractic for your back pain and provide spinal manipulations should they be required. Osteopathy is now recognised as an effective treatment in prevention and the effects of back pain and low back pain.

Associated symptoms of back pain such as slipped discs, bulging discs, herniated discs, trapped nerves, sciatica and muscle spasm can all be treated by an osteopath.

Back pain symptoms may be eased by using ice over the painful area. Using an icepack or bag of frozen peas wrapped in a damp thin towel will have 2 major beneficial effects. Firstly ice in an analgesic (pain killer) and secondly ice will cool the area and draw out inflammation and heat if present.

Science dictates that hot will always travel to cold so if you have heat and inflammation in your low back and you apply a cold substance over the area then the heat will travel into the cold substance thus reducing the temperature and give some element of pain relief. Add to this that cold causes vasoconstriction, which is a narrowing of capillaries and blood vessels, and you reduce the flow of inflammatory substances to the injury site.

As a pain killer ice is a natural material and if used correctly can block pain signals to the brain. Temperature sensors in the body transfer information to the brain quicker than that of pain information so if you place ice or heat over an area of pain you will feel better for a while. An example of using heat would be a woman with period pains in her tummy using a hot water bottle to ease the pain. So if heat works why use ice?

Heat creates vasodilation which allows more blood to travel to the area. If your body is suffering the effects of an inflammatory response, then this will travel via the blood stream in increased amounts. Cold on the other hand will have the reverse effect.

Both hot and cold will generally help to ease pain but once the temperature is removed the effects of the temperature will begin to show. Heat may increase symptoms of inflammation (you wouldn´t run a burnt finger under hot water would you?) and cold will reduce heat and inflammation.

If in doubt use cold!