Have you suffered with back pain in the last year?
One Massage Therapy, St Neots for back pain treatment – how it can help!
Regular massage therapy for back pain treatment is often considered to be a treat, rather than a necessity. Most people believe that having a massage is good for aches and pains, or can help if they’ve overdone the exercise. Not everybody realises that sports massage therapy or clinical massage therapy is also a powerful painkiller that can even be used to help people with back problems to reduce the amount of medication they must take.
Almost 10 million Britons suffer pain almost daily and the cost of back pain to the Exchequer is in the region of £5billion per year. If you are one of the 540 million people globally who has suffered with back pain at some point in their life, you’ll know how miserable it can be. If you are dealing with chronic back pain – which is pain that’s lasted more than three months and less than six – it can impact on your daily life, and stop you doing things you want to do. You could be reliant on drugs to keep you mobile or to help you sleep.
The vicious pain cycle
If you can no longer exercise pain-free, you might end up in a vicious cycle of inactivity that makes your pain worse, which stops you being active. Or you could just increase your medications but that just masks the problem. Also, some strong pain meds contain opioids like codeine which can lose their power over time as you build up a tolerance to their effects. They can also have unwanted side effects such as effects on how you think, quality of life and increases your risk of falls.
How massage for back pain can help
What you need is a way to manage your back pain that is effective but doesn’t have the side effects. Research has shown that regular sports massage or clinical massage along with your prescribed medication and any other advice from your healthcare provider can be so powerful that you might be able to decrease the number of painkillers you need to manage your back pain and start to live a more active life.
A massage for back pain doesn’t just relax you, it can help to promote tissue repair, decrease muscle tension and restriction, increase blood flow and improve circulation and does wonders for your stress levels and mood.
By helping muscles to relax through massage, flexibility can be improved and pain caused by tight muscles can be reduced. One Massage Therapy St Neots also uses the application of hot stones to relieve chronic pain issues and to provide a nourishing experience to help ease your back pain.
Scientific research
Increasingly scientific studies suggest that regular massage therapy is effective at reducing inflammation and providing relief from chronic back pain issues. Recent research showed that regular clinical massage therapy or sports massage combined with daily exercises for stabilising the core helped people suffering from chronic back pain to feel less anxious about their condition too. As the body relaxes it stimulates the production of “feel-good” hormones such as endorphins and serotonin so the sufferer is left with a general sense of well-being with reduced levels of depression and anxiety.
The study, which took place in New York showed that there was a significant difference between the pre-and post-treatment pain rating in the group that had regular clinical massage for back pain, but the control group who carried on as normal reported no changes to their pain levels.
If you suffer with back pain and want to try something different – book that massage session now with One Massage Therapy in St Neots.
