Relieve My Back Pain

Upper back pain can be just as painful as lower back pain — but you probably won’t get near as much sympathy. Unfairly, people generally associate lower back pain with physical work, while upper back pain is generally associated with poor posture or sweating over a hot desk all day.

Upper back pain can be caused by many things, and it is true that poor posture is one of them. Lack of exercise is another cause for upper back pain. Upper back pain can result from injury or other trauma to the area, as well. Overuse injuries associated with repetitive motion jobs often produce upper back pain.

The treatments that are considered the most beneficial to those who suffer from pain in the upper back (neck pain and shoulder pain are often present as well), are:

Exercises: Exercise that is both active and passive works the best for relieving upper back pain. Active exercise is done by the patient himself. He is the one who will be pulling on the weights and moving the muscles as he exercises. Passive exercise is the moving of the muscles by others — a physical therapist, for example. When passive exercise is used, the muscles are moved without the assistance of the patient himself. Each form of exercise provides a different result, and together they provide the most complete relief.

Chiropractic Manipulation: The medical community has long pooh-poohed the idea that manipulation can relieve pain, but they are finally seeing the medical proof that they required to accept it validity as a pain relief measure. This is a fact that chiropractic patients have known for many years. Relieving the stress on a particular muscle does relieve pain. Chiropractic adjustments can relieve upper back pain and do so almost instantly.

In the end, a combination of exercise and good posture will help to prevent upper back pain.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 2:23 am and is filed under Back Pain, Back Pain Remedies, Chiropractors, Exercise, Upper Back Pain. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.