New Treatments for Back Pain Relief

Back Pain Affects 80% of People80% of people suffer back pain during the lives. Many suffer from chronic back pain, defined as back pain that lasts more than three months. Sometimes chronic back pain feels like a weak ache that persists, but for others it’s a powerful sharp pain that makes living a normal life difficult. Back pain can make it difficult to walk or stand up straight.

New Back Pain Treatment

Often chronic back pain remains even after you try traditional pain relief treatments: drugs; rest; improving your posture while working or sitting; exercise; physical therapy; or chiropractic care. Sometimes a doctor may say your only solution is back surgery, which is painful and costly.

However, the doctors at Atlanta Pain Doctors LLC may recommend an inexpensive, non-invasive pain relief treatment: tCDS or transcranial direct current stimulation. tCDS applies a mild, painless electrical current that stimulates your body to repair the nerves and tissues in the area treated. The result is your body heals itself naturally. This website has in-depth information about tCDS back pain relief treatment plus a video CBS News Story explaining this new method.

Back Pain Causes

What causes your back pain? An injury to your back is the most common reason, although there are diseases that create back pain.

Injuries to the back are often caused by sports, lifting or bending while working at home or work, a car accident or fall, or by poor posture while at work or using a computer. When the spinal bones, nerves and the soft tissues separating them are injured, chronic back pain results. You may experience a simple muscle ache in your back, or a sharp, shooting pain.

Diseases and conditions can be the cause of your chronic back pain: bulging discs; sciatica; spinal degeneration; spinal stenosis; osteoporosis; fibromyalgia; and spondylitis are the most common. 

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