Share Your Best Pain Relief Tips
and You Might Be a Winner…
A couple of weeks ago I was reading through some of the thousands of emails I get each day and I came across one that really struck me…
Someone had written in to tell us how much our free videos had helped his wife… but he also said that one of the things that worked the best for her when it came to pain relief was mustard…
Yes, mustard… now, if I recall correctly it was prepared in a special way… but it got me thinking, I bet that there are dozens, if not hundreds of other little-known natural remedies out there that most people just don’t know about…
So, I decided a great way to get everyone to share their best pain relief tips, strategies and remedies would be a contest…
To enter simply post your tip onto our blog using the link below and you’ll be entered to win the following prizes:
1st Prize: Inversion Table ($299 value)
2nd Prize: Lose The Back Pain System ($97 value)
3rd Prize: Freedom Back – Back Support ($59 value)
The team here at the Healthy Back Institute will choose the winners and the deadline is Thursday, September 10th.
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Drinking normal temp water mixed with lime juice before bed helped releive my back pain due to work stress
I first threw out my lower back when I was twelve. It would happen every few years after that. When I hit thirty, it was much more frequent. Solution? For me, it was all about preventing it. I found if I kept up a good regimen of glute exerises (squats, lunges,snowshoeing in deep snow, even) kept the muscles nice and strong. It keeps the pain in check and prevents me from lifting improperly.
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I have three actually:
1) I could only ever sleep on my left hand side. Sleeping on my right side, front OR back caused back pain. Since I am a restless sleeper (i.e. one that moves around a lot) this caused a significant amount of sleep deprivation. I simple bought a 2″ memory foam mattress topper, and this helped immensely
2) Before I got the mem foam topper, I also found that sleeping with a large pillow between my legs seemed to alleviate the discomfort as well
3) Sitting at my desk all day used to cause further back pain. I now use a mem foam pillow as lumbar support. Helps loads.
Yes! I’m memory foam crazy! Thanks NASA.
Tony
Turmerc w/ginger, Boswelia, Serrapeptase,glucosamine sulfate, an Activon(menthol) or Blue Stuff -roll ons…..Relieve pain and let me sleep and get through the day.
My Mom has tried this remedy and it works!! For arthritis a daily dose of cider vinegar combined with garlic and honey reduced the pain by 90%. This miracle home remedy hardly costs much. Also helps to guard against flu and infectious diseases. Relief with asthma, high blood pressure ulcers.
RECIPE: In a bowl mix together 1 cup honey, 1 cup organic cider vinegar and 8 cloves garlic. Place in a blender and mix on hi
gh speed for one minute. Pour into glass container and seal. Leave in refrigerator for 5 days. Normal dose will be 2 teaspoons in a glass of water or fruit juice before breakfast.
Having this remedy is a morning ritual in our family!
My fastest pain relief, when that high pitched pain suddenly flows through my shoulders and back, especially in the night (but can happen any time) is to instantly make a quick stack of four or five pillows on the edge of the bed and standing on the floor, drop myself on top of them face down, go totally limp relaxed but toes touching the floor and letting my weight drag my spine as much as possible. Spine feels “strange” but it works immediately, within a minute or two at most, and breathing recovered quickly. The pain is generally so sharp and fierce it takes my breath away, with painful ribs hurting even more to be laid on, all ceases like magic. After a minute or two I let my weight gradually sag to my knees on the floor dragging ribs over the end of the pillows then get up gently.
I long for a tilt-table… it would also deal with neck pain.
In November of 1992 I had a fall that resulted in an extruded, dessicated disk that was impinging on my sciatic nerve. In 1997 I had back surgery that included a full lumbar fusion. Over the years I have tried almost everything, including medication, physical therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, pain management, chiropractic and yoga. The only things that have helped for more than a couple of days are massage therapy and yoga. After receiving your new book “The 7 day back pain cure” I realize that I am really dealing with a muscle imbalance in the area from my waist to my SI joints, with much greater pain on the left side. I have begun your suggested stretches and have realized some relief after just 2 days. My tip do Jesse’s stretches.
Doing the daily exercises has helped, but left me with occasional sciatic pain that could occasionally drop me to my knees. I found that altering my diet, though difficult, was worth it – no more alcohol, no sugar, less salt, and daily dose of magnesium salt (a few flakes in a glass of warm water) – plus a long walk each day (about 1.5mile with uphill gradient). I use the ‘Livingwell Heal-n-soothe’ on low dosage daily, to reduce inflamation naturally, and the attacks have diminshed. I would like to try Inversion but am afraid without proper equipment, and, as I am a pensioner I dont know when I can afford a table. Andy age 65.
I find that using my ice pack on my lower back a couple of times a day for about 20 min. helps to lessen the inflamation in my back and my pain.
I have to second the person who said that strengthening the core and glute muscles helps, but you have to keep at it over time.
For me, I have found relief by using the theracane to hit trigger points. I also use a foam roller, do a few lower glute/piriformas stretches, the use the foam roller again. You can use the roller against a wall if it puts too much pressure on your low back by laying on it on the floor.
Good luck fellow sufferers! I’m hoping to get an inversion table soon.
When my lower back hurts, it is usually because I don’t have enough fiber in my diet. Exercise works great too or hang upside down from my bed. But I always use ice first.
For the past couple of months I have been using Nature’s Herbs Boswellin from India, which really works and the ointment Nature’s Way Comfrey Herbal ointment. It was really great and interesting to see Heal-n-Soothe has Boswellia extract in it also. So I’m sure it will work also. I hae only been taking Heal-n-Soote for a few days. I wanted an inversion table for a while, thought that it would be helpful.
Streching seems to be the thing that works for me.
I had years of lower back pain and “subluxations”. I was getting regular chiropractic and massage therapy, but nothing seemed to work permanently. When I started getting sciatic pain down my left leg, I decided to ask my doctor for a CAT/MRI scan and the results showed a bulging disk which would explain the sciatica and lower back pain. Then, 6 months ago, I made 3 major changes:
1) Got the lose the back back program and started doing the stretches and exercises recommended by Jesse.
2) I got an exercise ball & threw out my office chair.
3) Started taking Apple Cider Vinegar
Within 2 weeks of implementing these changes, I was completely pain free and got full night’s sleep. I still do the exercises regularly (at least 3-4 times a week) and now back to playing ice hockey, riding my dirt bike and have cut down on chiro visits to 3-4 times a year. The exercise ball is great at improving core muscles and posture if you’re sitting at an office desk a ot of the time, but make sure it’s inflated to the correct height/firmness. I take the apple cider vinegar every morning at breakfast with my orange juice. 1 capfull is fine. I use the natural unpasteurized type with “mother”. I contains enzymes and I’ve found it helps with proper digestion and absorbtion of nutrients and minerals, especially if you take supplements. I recommend the program to everyone I know. I also feel that massage therapy, in conjunction with the regular excercises and stretching helps enormously to keep muscles balanced.
I’m 42 years old and as active as ever, and more importantly, pain-free!
Paul
I suffer from neck pain. One small thing that can make a big difference is proper pillow height in bed at night. I used to use a bunch of pillows, but found this put my neck at an abnormal angle for hours at a time. Now, I use one pillow. I sleep on my side and fill in the space between my head and the bed with one pillow, which keeps my spine at a fairly straight position. Also, 2″ memory foam mattress topper had helped a lot to keep my spine aligned while sleeping. Pain isn’t gone, but it definately minimizes it.
lying on the floor really helps,at first you feel so much pain but eventually it fades
Anyone with back or joint problems needs to look into “Cold Laser Therapy”. It is a low level laser (light) therapy that is painless, but greatly stimulates blood flow and other technical items that allows the body to heal itself much more quickly than normal.
It is usually provided by a chiropractor or alternative medical specialist trained in its’ use, and a treatment lasts 2 -5 minutes. But WOW, does it work. I know of disc problems and knee problems that have been healed without surgery. It is FDA approved, and soon should be granted a medical code that will allow insurance companies to cover pament. You can google the process and see if someone provides it in your area.
I have a spondylolethesis (not sure about the spelling) in my lower back L4L5.
It flaired up last year and with therapy, massage, and some icing it got tolerable but was a continuing painful chronic condition – for at least 3 months. I had read a little about the use of calcium to help these kinds of conditions. I went to the health food store and got a bottle of bio-available calcium. It was fairly high dosage calcium, magnesium, and a number of other nutrients and enzymes (like Boswellin). Within 3 days I was virtually pain-free. The skeptics might characterize this as a timing coincidence, but when one is the pain-sufferer they know better.
Put two tennis balls into a stocking and tie an knot to hold them close together. Lay on your back and roll the tennis balls up and down the spine with a ball on each side of the spine. I do this every morning and evening and any time my back hurts. Its a type of deep tissue massage that you can do yourself.
I am now 74 years of age. Between 1966 and 1968 I suffered severe back pain. I had done several tests and was on all kinds of medication until I met an old Doctor named Dr. Bland from Trinidad. He told me nothing was wrong with me – all I had to do was remove the coil springs from my bed and floor the bed with board and sit or stand straight. Do not slough. I did exactly that and during my professional accounting studies 1971 t0 1976, I sat on a wooden bench with no back rest. I am still in perfect shape today.
My brother has a serious back problem which is manifesting in his legs, and I have been downloading your literature for him. He is following your advice and has been getting relief.
I have been recommending the Inversion Table for him and I wish I can win this contest. Thanks
Simply Stretching in am.’s and pm.’s for hamstrings, quads, low back , piriformis muscles goes a long way to relieving back symptoms and set you up to be fit to exercise.
If the knees are painful, it can make you walk awkwardly and with back tension. Ease the knees, and you walk better and there is less stress on the back.
One help I have found for the knees is to sit on the floor, with the legs straight and relaxed. Take hold of the kneecap and gently move it around. There can be little knots in there and this will ease them out and the pain will be reduced.
Easy to do and no side effects.
When feeling sore or in a little pain I always enjoy a good bath. About a year or so ago I came across some Himalayan salt cystals, I read that this salt has great benefits not only internally but in a bath as well. After giving it a try, it does make me feel better and great for the skin with all the minerals. However, when reading about the herb rosemary and its effect for pain I decided to put a couple of ounces in the mesh bag and toss that into the bath water as well and the combination has a great effect on the old tried body. If I a nagging pain in my shoulder or whatever, I use some essential oils after the bath to add the final touches. For example a few drops of lavender oil, a drop or so of peppermint oil in an ounce of so of almond oil. Rub that in the spot as needed.
Hi Jesse,
I’ve recently discovered a naturally fermented pure xanthone oil, it’s a concentrated cox 2 inhibitor (pain blocker), so a drop or two massaged on my back or tennis elbow calms the signs of inflammation and relieves my pain…I Love it!
I appreciate you,
Phillip
I’ve also got two solutions. The first is my favorite, but not everyone can use it (you’ll see why). The second is easy for anyone to use and, in fact, you’ll want to share it with people you know.
1) I live near a glacier-fed creek. If I have any sort of pain — back, knee, hip, shoulder, you name it — between June and October, I just get in the creek!
There are places to stand, places to sit, places to float… but 10 minutes in that cold, running water can deliver hours of pain relief.
And it works for emotions, too! If you’re all out of sorts, just dive in the rapids 3 times and whatever was bothering you will be replaced by clarity and exhilaration.
BTW, if you think this is the same as just getting in cold water, or using an ice-pack, you’re mistaken. Don’t ask me why, but I think it’s the combination of being outdoors, and the movement of the water that makes the difference. Even being in a swimming pool with water at the same temperature as the creek isn’t the same.
I don’t live near a beach to check, but I’ll bet that a cold ocean has a similar effect.
2) When the water’s too cold, or when I can’t get to it, my other favorite pain reliever is… COMEDY.
Do whatever you have to do to laugh for 20 minutes or more. Rent the funniest movie you know (one that’s totally juvenile works here), or your favorite sitcom. Or, usually better, find a stand-up comic that makes you double-over with laughter. Seeing live comedy is best, but TV or the Internet works, too.
You’ll get hours of pain relief from the comedy rush!
And here’s something interesting… even if laughing aggravates your situation (it hurts to laugh), you’ll STILL feel better when the show is over. Lot’s better.
My theory is that in addition to the neurochemical high that laughing gives you, the uncontrollable movements — even when it hurts to laugh — help unwind and relax tension.
Enjoy, and feel better!
the only thing that relieves pain for me is putting a pillow under my hips that is why i think an inversion table would help me because it would release pression in my back but i can t afford it and even more living in canada it can cost a lot more (SHIPPING,FOREIGN AND TAXES.SO I M DOING MY BEST WITH IT.)
I have MS and I have lived with pain in my body for most of my life. I ruptured a disc in my back when I was a teenager and since it flairs up every couple of weeks.
I use ice at first flair up and then I go to moist heat.
I try to not use pain medication very often. I do not take any medication for my disease. I just use my mind to control the pain for the most part. I think that if you live being thankful for what you do have it makes a big difference.
The best tricks I have for relieving pain:
1. Deep breathing like taught in lamaze classes. Inhale through the nose for 5 seconds then exhale through the mouth for 5 seconds. Repeat several times. This helps a lot when I have extreme, sharp, stabbing back pain.
2. Laying down on the floor and placing my legs on the couch at a 90 degree angle. This relieves the pressure on the spine. While initially it may be painful, it relaxes the spine and make the pain lessen greatly.
3. Strengthening and stretching exercises done regularly.
4. When I can, I go to a swimming pool with a foam noodle. Place the noodle under your arms in the deep end and just hang there suspended like you are standing up in the deep water. This relieves the pressure on the spine and stretches it for you. I learned this in therapy and it really works.
I grow several alovera plants in my garden and use aloe for everything. I take it twice a week to clean me out and it also seems to keep my joints pain free ( I am a 53 year old fanatical sportsman!) I use it on my hair for conditioner. Use it on my skin for sunburn and it keeps my skin feeling smooth. I recommend everyone to grow this plant and use it.
I have 2 bits of advice:
1) Most people wait until the pain is so bad they HAVE to do something about it. My advice is DO NOT WAIT! The longer you wait, the harder it will be to fix the problem. BE PROACTIVE; start doing your stretches, exercises, whatever, sooner rather than later. It will be much easier to get relief.
2) Don’t plan to do your stretches and exercises when it’s convenient. For most of us, it’s never convenient. We are just too busy. So, schedule your stretches and exercise the same time(s) each day. You will do them much more often and consistently.
To releive back pain I roll a medium sized towell up into a cylinder shape lenght ways, place it on the floor, lie on it facing up and roll across the towell left to right. It stretches the muscles of the spinus erectus (either side of the spine)and sometimes you get a satisfying re adjustment “pop” that can bring plenty of relief to a tired back at the end of a day.
My Inverstion table is great for when I have over done things and suffer accute flares, relief is almost instantanious!
Lieing on my back with legs & feet up on chair or up against the wall is a good relaxing stretch.
There is the oral pain reliever to take before pain gets bad.
Lastly, I think having a pet (dog, cat, etc) Can be stress reducing, and the animals seem to sense when you don’t feel well, giving calming attention and support. They also keep you active with their basic care…like walking (Try walking to the count of three, instead of four).
I have found nothing that will relieve my lower back pain, from Chiropractors, epidurals, vax-d, massage, physical therapy, Heal &soothe, anti inflamatories, stretching and exercising to everything. I am in pretty rough pain and the only thing I haven’t tried is surgery and the inversion table. Surgery is out but I would really like to have that table.
First I use hot and cold packs alternating the 2 for 20 mins each which helps. When I sleep on my side I use a pillow that I can adjust between my thighs and knees which helps a lot. If I sleep on my back I put a pillow just below my hips to raise my thighs and knees a bit to relieve the pain. I only sleep with a buckwheat pillow. I can adjust it to fit me so that it makes me comfortable. I was a real life saver for me. This is the type of pillow I use for my knees and thighs to help my back and it has relieved my back pain tremendously. I can’t sleep without 3 of the buckwheat pillows. If you haven’t tried a buckwheat pillow you need to try one – it takes a little bit of getting used to but once you do you won’t be able to sleep without it. I take mine wherever I go.
An inversion table would be awesome as I think it would stretch out the muscles and help to alleviate some of the pain.
I have had lower back pain with sciatica in my right leg for a few months. I have been lying over the exercise ball on my stomach, one of the exercises in the Lose the Back Pain book, which seems to stretch my lower back and take the edge off. I have found the more often I do this during the day, the easier it is to walk without the leg pain.
I hurt my back in 2001 pulling too hard on a wrench repairing a irrigation system. Some unusual things since then really help. Water skiing, snow skiing, scooping corn or soybeans and climbing ladders up grain bins. I take lots of b vitamins and gluco gels, plant derived minerals, EFA’s and dry to get drink plenty of water. I am now doing the excercises of loose the back pain and have already noticed results with less sciatic pain. Am I glad I ran across your web site WOW! Hope to get the inversion table!!!
Staring at stary stary nigth, the beautifulpainting by Vincent van gogh
Listening to Nessum Dorma, the beautiful closing aria of turandot
Drinking a delicious margarita in a terrace overlooking beautiful downtown in Mexico City.
Eating a Deilicious and ripe Mango
And last but not least, making love passionly with the woman you love as much as you can even in an inversion table if you can, je jeje
And of course this may help correct all muscle inbalances.
greatings from Mexico City
Dr.David Nobigrot
Staring at stary stary nigth, the beautifulpainting by Vincent van gogh
Listening to Nessum Dorma, the beautiful closing aria of turandot
Drinking a delicious margarita in a terrace overlooking beautiful downtown in Mexico City listening to songs with a Mariachi group
Eating a Deilicious and ripe Mango
And last but not least, making love passionly with the woman you love as much as you can even in an inversion table if you can, je jeje
And of course this may help correct all muscle inbalances.
greatings from Mexico City
Dr.David Nobigrot
I found for myself that taking an amino acid complex everyday on an empty stomach between meals helped lower my overall pain response.
I do not have a cure for pain. I wish I did. I would like to have the inversion table for my husband. He has cancer and is now suffering from neuropathy in his legs from the radiation treatments. I believe the table would help alleviate his leg pain. It would be so wonderful if he could have some pain relief, it is hard to see him suffering so much.
In the morning, before I get out of bed, I do some simple stretches. I do the sacriliac stretches that were demonstrated on one of your videos and also, the periformaus stretch. It only takes a few minutes. And now I am ready to get up and start my day.
I would recommend for anybody that has seen little or no relief with other methods to try the phase one diet. In fact, if you incorporate this diet with the exericses found in the Lose the Back Pain reference manual you should experience terrific results. One more thing, the above diet worked for me. In fact for me it was the missing ingredient to my lower back pain regimen.
400 mg pure curcumin twice a day has helped lessen the pain of cervical spondylosis and the related shoulder pain.
I bought an herbal linament at my farm store and added dmso to it and when my muscles get sore I have my husband apply some to my back and rub it a little and it helps greatly with my pain.
I have found that spinal decompression helps,combined with swiss ball and drinking a lot 60oz or more of water will help considerably.The spinal decompression works so well I have thought of buying my own table as soon as I can afford it.
Something that really helps me in combination is 2 tablespoons pure cherry juice mixed with 8oz glass of water 2 time a day(natural Anti inflammatory).
Mix cinnamon and garlic with the foods you make to decrease pain.
Stretching and strengthening daily, 5 8oz glasses of water to stay hydrated and also trying not to sit for long periods (more then an 1/2 -1 hour at a time)
Daily walking for 30-45 minutes.
I ask patients if they drink enough water each day. Most say “no”. I ask them what they think enough would be. Most say,8, 8oz galsses. I ask them what they drink daily. Most say, “coffee, tea and/or pop”. I suggest that they decrease or eliminate the above and drink non-caffinated non-carbinated drinks (mainly water). Many report feeling better in 3-5 days even if their treatment sessions have not started. I have experienced a decrease in joint pains since becoming consistant with a daily intake of 64-80 oz of water. I try to get most of it ingested by 3 pm and finish by 7 pm. That’s my best tip for starters. Of course, we progress to muscle balancing form there.
Probably the biggest “tip” I could give people is to have a salivary hormone test, especially cortisol levels, as an imbalance in hormone levels can cause inflammation & pain. I did this & found my cortisol levels were very low during morning & afternoon. Cortisol is a stress hormone, but is also important for tissue healing & ligament health. Getting my hormones in balance has really made a more lasting effect for me.
But in the short run, using combination herbals, that are good for muscle relaxation and nerve pain, helps more quickly (did not list them here because there may be interactions with meds others may be taking, so its best to know about herbs before choosing the best ones for you). With these, I find I can significantly decrease pain within 10-15 minutes. So then I can then do stretching & trigger point release techiniques more comfortably, as well as muscle balance exercises.
I also find using a more easily absorbed magnesium supplement helps too. Muscles need magnesium for them to relax!
Hi, i started using only one pillow, a memory foam one. I also sleep with a pillow between my knees. These helped, then I discoverd MSM powder (sulpher?) anyway about 8 grams a day in 2 doses did the trick within days – no pain whatsoever. I also put my ageing labrador on about 5 gr a day divided into 2 doses. Within a couple of days this dog was running and jumping again, moving much easier.