Choose Your Home Remedy For Back Pain – 7 Treatments To Try

For back pain, we could go back to crawling, which anthropologists call our “natural state”, but how much fun would that be?

Most adults suffer from various forms of back pain – upper back, mid-back, lower back, and it may be chronic, episodic, pangs, throbs, and strains. You can overcome it all with a great home remedy for back pain.

Here are six suggestions.

1. Get Out Of Bed Properly

When you first awaken in the morning, take a few minutes to focus on your back. Lie on your back, feet stretched straight out gently and not rigid. Take a dozen very deep breaths and concentrate on relaxing your whole body. You’re allowing your back to not be jolted into the immediate stressors of your day, and are getting oxygen into your deep cells, which helps body parts function effectively.

Once you’ve taken these priceless moments, focus on learning YOUR best way to get out of bed. This depends on your body type, your overall physical body (including your movement mechanics, other weakened or injured body parts, and where you carry your back pain).

Experiment with methods like turning onto your stomach and starting out with a pushup to lift out of bed, or rolling a hip over with knee bent toward the edge of the bed. This home remedy for back pain gently eases your back into its daily job.

2. Stretching

Here’s an interesting case history of someone with back pain relieved by a home remedy. It’s shared by Mitch Darnell, M.S. in Psychology and Ordained Minister in Sacramento, California. He had a client who occasionally experienced severe back spasms. This was accompanied by chronic back pain for over 20 years. He carried a tremendous load, working and caring for a large family. During one session, Mitch had him lie on his back for 20 minutes while they talked. That became the client’s favorite home remedy for back pain, “A life saver,” the client said.

To be an effective home remedy for back pain, all stretching must be gentle and include lots of good deep breaths. The types of stretches you use also depend on where you experience your pain. All adults should stretch their back at least 5 days per week, and generally at least twice per day. There are many online resources offering a variety of stretching techniques.

3. Body Pain Neutralizing Position

Patrick Mummy, founder of the Symmetry Method to relieve pain in the body, and located in Folsom, CA, uses a specific body position to ‘neutralize’ any of the spasming muscles. Lie on the floor and put your legs at a 90-degree angle on a footstool. Extend your arms out to the sides of your body. Lie there for 3 minutes. You’ll feel significantly less back pain at the end of the three minutes.

4. Sit Right

Mom had a point when she told you to, “Sit up straight!” If she didn’t, tell her, shame on her!

Nowadays, sitting dominates our lifestyles. Find reasons to get up (even work at a raised desk so you can stand if you have to). Meanwhile, the specific pressures on your back while sitting for hours stress muscles, tendons, ligaments and your central nervous system – hence you end up with responsive back pain.

Use whatever tools you can to sit with your feet flat and your back straight as much as possible, when sitting. This home remedy for back pain may involve pillows, blankets, cushions and more to support your body sitting in a position which stretches your spinal cord (vs. compacting it), and which supports good breathing and musculoskeletal alignment to fight back pain. Good ergonomics is everything.

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