Great Tips to Help Your Back
Often used in a sporting context, the saying “Father Time is unbeatable” is so true on many levels. As you age, the aches and pains begin to pile up and appointments to doctors is now a part of your routine. However, despite the truth of the such claim, you can still do a lot of things to keep yourself healthy, especially the ever-achy lower back. For the older demographic, the spinal area is the most vulnerable with its amazing collection of discs, bones, and muscles that keep us standing moving. If you want to be as mobile as possibly even as you age, please do pay attention to these prevention tips.
Tip #1: Maintain A Healthy Body Weight
It’s not so much about weight loss, but rather maintaining a reasonable weight. The science behind that is that we shouldn’t be putting more mass than what our spine is designed to support. Control everything that you put in your mouth and watch for those carbs! However, if you want to keep everything simple as far as food consumption is concerned, eat in moderation and STOP when you’re about 80% full.
Tip #2: Say No To Tobacco
Tobacco is often the culprit in lung cancer but did you know it also does so much damage on the bones? Smoking has been linked to loss of the bone’s water content that can lead to degenerative disc disease and the undermining of the spine’s shock-absorbing properties. So please do your back a favor and stop smoking or stay away from people who do.
Tip #3: Exercise
Exercising and maintaining a healthy body weight is related, but the former does more than keep the pounds off. When you exercise, you keep the blood flowing all over the different parts of your body, de-clogging the arteries and maintaining a healthy heart and lungs. Experts suggest a 30-minute moderately intense aerobic exercise a day, 5 days a week, along with vitamin supplements to lower the chance of developing osteoporosis.
Tip #4: Watch Out For Diabetes!
As if diabetes’ impact on your other organs are not bad enough, it is also associated with spondylosis (spinal arthritis) and back pain. If your physician puts you on the hold for potential glucose level problems, be aggressive in keeping it under control before it’s too late!
Tip #5: Invest In A Bed
When you’re young, you probably don’t care about where or what you lie on. That won’t be the case anymore as the years pile up! It is very vital to get comfortable at night. To ensure such comfort, invest on a mattress that firmly support your back but soft enough not to hurt the shoulders and hips.
Keep In Mind
Taking care of our body will help keep the effects of back pain at a minimum. It may even reduce the level of pain you feel, but sooner or later, effects of that bad back of yours may catch up with you.
As soon as that happens, your doctor might suggest treatment options which may include surgery. If it comes down to that, there are other options you can look at instead of surgery. One of those is regenerative medicine. The concept of regenerative medicine has existed since the 1930’s with regards to treating musculoskeletal injuries. One of these techniques is called Prolozone, and has been described as a “safe and effective non-surgical treatment to a number of musculoskeletal conditions. Not only does it take care of the pain, it encourages the regeneration (hence the term) and rebuilding of new tendons, ligaments, and cartilage that may have been damaged.
We at the RMI understand that not everybody’s pain is exactly the same. What may be debilitating for one person, may be a mild irritation for another. That’s why, after 6000 injections with over an 85% success rate, we understand that each treatment will be tailored to the individual., we should have the solution that YOU are looking for to fill YOUR desires for living a better life. Call us at 509-299-6900 so that we can determine the right type of service to fit your needs.