Back Pain Relief

If you’ve got back pain – there’s something that might help even more than pain medication...

I’ll tell you what it is, in a moment…Payoff:For people with back pain – relief may be in someone else’s hands – in the form of massage. A recent study found massage therapy can provide more pain relief and improved function than medication for some people. Patients who received weekly whole-body massage for relaxation, or focused massages to treat specific muscles, felt more relief than those who took over-the-counter drugs like ibuprofen.

The massage treatment worked best on those who suffered from lower back pain. 39% of them said the pain was nearly or completely gone after 10 weeks – compared to 4% of the group that used traditional pain relief.