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Back Muscle Treatment

If you are suffering from back pain, muscle treatment such as exercise and stretching may be just the thing you need to regain your active lifestyle. In many cases, back pain results from inflammation of muscles or nerves in the back. To reduce this inflammation, the first step is to visit your doctor to ensure that a larger underlying issue isn’t behind your pain. From there, the doctor will usually help you develop a conservative treatment plan for managing your sore back, which can include anti-inflammatory medication, diet correction, heat or ice packs, and back stabilizers, in addition to strength and stretching exercises.

Build Strength, Flexibility

Exercise and proper stretching techniques essentially serve two main purposes: strengthen the back in the short-term to overcome pain; and increase flexibility and muscle mass to reduce the likelihood of future injury. The important thing is to work closely with a medical professional or a personal trainer to ensure that you don’t overdo your workout and further injure a back muscle. Exercises to treat sciatica can be an extremely effective way to manage pain but it can also make matters significantly worse if you aren’t careful.

Targeted Symptoms

When done correctly, back muscle treatment can be used to alleviate a number of frustrating symptoms, including:

• Local, chronic back or neck pain
• Unexpected muscle weakness in the arms or legs
• Pain that seems to radiate along a nerve
• Numbness or tingling in the arms or legs
• Sciatica
• Other symptoms

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To learn more about how to treat back injury and to discover all of your treatment options for back pain, including muscle treatment, contact Laser Spine Institute (LSI). In addition to being the worldwide leader in the field of minimally invasive, outpatient endoscopic spine surgery, we are also proud to partner with the renowned team at Aspen Back and Body to offer the best holistic treatments available. Contact us?today to schedule a consultation at one of our conveniently located offices nationwide and to request a completely free review of your MRI or CT scan.

Please note: Laser Spine Institute currently does not perform endoscopic procedures on the thoracic spine.