Continue reading »]]> Poor posture and the stresses of everyday life mean that many of us suffer from lower back pain. Some of us reach for a hot water bottle, others prefer a warm bath but it cannot be denied that along with comfort and relaxation, heat therapy can provide real relief from many types of lower back pain. Read more

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Continue reading »]]> Many of us have suffered from back stiffness at some or other point in time in our lives. Back pain can be quite an aggravating condition as it brings agony and restricts mobility. But however, you can get rid of back trouble with effective techniques like heat treatment.

Heat care has been used for some considerable time to treat back difficulty.Heat treatment works in more than only a technique to help you get rid of back pain. Firstly,heat therapy dilates the blood vessels that surround the backbone.Dilation of arteries increases the flow of blood to the muscles that are experiencing discomfort.This eases the pain.

Always always a good reason for back trouble is the stiffness that one feels in the joints and muscles. It’s been observed that heat therapy does marvelous things in such a situation. When heat is applied to such an area, the stiffness is eliminated. This in turn boosts the flexibleness of the joints and the muscles. As a result the difficulty of back stiffness is seriously reduced.

The best merit of using heat care as a therapy for back difficulty is the fact that it is fully natural and affordable.Since its natural, it removes any chance of upsetting side effects. On the contrary,most back pain medications can lead to health problems even if they’re effective with the back pain.

Similarly heat therapy is a particularly cost-effective technique to eliminate the issue of back trouble. The therapy can be easily availed at the comfort of your place and thus doesn’t need you to shell out any money. The simplest form of heat treatment is to use hot water bottles. All you need to put them under your aching back for a span of almost 20 to 30 minutes.This will go a long way in easing out your agony.Some other heat therapy options that you can easily make use of are heated wraps, heated gel packs, electric heated packs and many more. Some other sure shot heat therapy solutions are steam baths and hot baths.

Though heat treatment is an acceptable way to cure the back stiffness problem, it is essential to realise this treatment methodology must be done with extreme care and caution. One important thing in this context is temperature of the heat applied. Always ensure that the temperature of the hot water bottles and so on aren’t in extremes of being very low or extraordinarily high.

Another thing you want to take care of,while undergoing the heat therapy is timings. The duration of the therapy is crew on the factors like the intensity of the agony.If the backache is mild, it is recommended to go in for heat treatment that last for almost 15-20 mins.In case the pain is way more severe, it’s a smart move to go in for heat therapy that lasts for at least half hour to 2 hours.

So next time you have the attack of back pain, consider using heat therapy. It will fix your problem successfully and that too in a very natural manner.

Continue reading »]]> Does anyone know if there are any programs designated to helping with the cost of an MRI? By helping I mean either a state funded charity kind of thing, loans to be paid back or anything. I have been out of work for over a year because I suddenly became unable to walk, well it was just excruciating to take a step. I went to the local clinic and they told me that it was sciatica which was probably due to some sort of pressure on the sciatic nerve, gave me a handful of pills and told me to go home and rest for a couple of weeks on heat and ice therapy. This eased it quite a bit, however whenever I began doing any sort of moving around, the pain came back. I went back to the clinic and they gave me more pills, a shot of steroids and again told me to rest. It was suggested that maybe a chiropractor or massage therapist may be of some help. I went to a chiropractor about 3 or 4 times and the pain was not going anywhere, so I decided to save my sixty dollar back crack..lol.. Then I went to a hospital one morning when I couldn’t stand it any longer (this was about 4 months after the initial diagnoses of sciatica), I explained to the doc on call that I couldn’t afford a doctor and came at a ‘slow’ time in hopes that they could help me. He was rather cold and said that without an MRI which would cost 00, there really wasn’t much they could do besides give me a handfull of pills, a shot and tell me to rest with ice and heat therapy. I was more hoping that he could point me in the right direction to somewhere that I could get this so needed MRI, but no. I then found a hospital that provided charity care and they had helped me a few times in their ‘non-emergency’ department by giving me shots, pills and this time, an X-Ray. They saw me a couple of times but said that I would need to find a Pain Management specialist to provide ongoing care. I then found a pain management specialist that was referred by many of the offices that I had called and made an appointment. My first visit went great! He listened to what I had to say when I explained what was going on, went over my X-Rays with me and showed me that I had arthritis in my SI joint, some disc degeneration and that my bottom vertebrae were closer than the rest which would indicate some sort of bulging disc or smashed smushy thing that is in between the vertebrae (I am not very good at explaining in medical terms). He put me on some medications, one was an anti-inflamatory, one was a pain killer, one was an anti-spasmatic and the other was to relax the nerves or muscles. He said that the next visit we would more than likely do a spinal injection that involved using a needle to put some kind of numbing stuff on the SI joint to trickle down and see if that took the pain away and that this would give him a better idea of how to treat this ailment and later on talk about a brace if needed. The mere words ‘spinal injection’ scared the tar out of me but I was willing to do anything to get rid of this pain… Please keep in mind that I do not have insurance and all of these visits are paid with cash (5 for the first visit not including the extra 0 for the meds). The second visit I went in to see him a few days early because I couldn’t stand the pain and didn’t want to go to the hospital for a shot if he was going to do one during the visit. I got there on time (9:30 was the appointment and I was there 15 minutes early to check in) and they put me in an exam room. It was 10:30 before the doctor came in, asked how I was doing and I told him how bad it was hurting. He acted like he had never seen me before, said he didn’t know what he was treating and that my X-Rays looked ‘ok’ from the notes he took during the first visit. I asked about the shot, at least for a bit of relief from this pain and he said he didn’t want to do it because I didn’t get an MRI yet, but would increase my medications and told me not to straddle anything like a motorcycle or go 4-wheeling (he said that he couldn’t follow me around to make sure I wasn’t lifting anything or doing anything to irritate it more and I told him that I wasn’t and that was really aggravating because I am a 41 year old active woman! Or at least I was until a year ago). Then he offered to call a few places to see if they could work out a payment plan on this procedure. He left then came back and said that there were a couple of places but I would have to call them, he would leave the numbers with the receptioninst. This literally broke my spirits and I started crying and told him that I couldn’t afford this and have been everywhere to try and get some decent health care and that he was the one that everyone recommended. (I even wrote to the state of Alabama and they actually did sound concerned and gave me a list of insurance companies to call but told me to tell them that I had already had this ‘unknown’ condition.) As soon as my tears started to fall, he stood and asked me to follow him. I was hoping he was going to be

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Far Infrared heat therapy has been used for over 3000 years in the Far East. 

Far Infrared Heat Therapy Pads

Western Medicine has taken an interest in it, and research into its benefits has been conducted for about 40 years.

Check out the page on Heat Therapy on this blog for more information about infrared therapy and its benefits for sufferers of back pain and other chronic conditions.

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