LOWER BACK PAIN TREATMENT- CONSERVATIVE VS SURGICAL

In the sedentary lifestyle-oriented world, it is common to hear about back pain among youngsters and teenagers. To get rid of this back pain, there is a need to have an appropriate lifestyle and eating habits along with effective treatment. For any person, there can be two approaches for treatment depending on his problem. One can be surgical treatment, and the other can be a conservative or nonsurgical approach.

If you are on the initial track of a back pain problem, then it can be good for you to opt lower back pain treatment course to reduce your pain, condition your lower back, and manage the immediate issue associated with back pain like sleeplessness, discomfort, or depression.

What is a conservative treatment option?

Your course for treatment is conservative. If it is non-invasive, you are taking some medications or less invasive when going for injections or chiropractic manual manipulation. The duration of the conservative treatment course totally depends on the extent of the problem.

But if you are feeling persistent leg pain for a period of time even after taking medicines, then it means a conservative approach is failed for you.  A conservative approach is not for you even if you have the following issue.

If you lose bowel or bladder control and have progressive leg weakness, you cannot take conservative treatment as the first option, as you need immediate medical help.

What is a surgical treatment option?

In most cases, back pain can be treated non-surgically, but if you are at the extreme point of your lower back pain, surgery is the only option. If the cause of the pain is not identified, surgery is not advisable.

However, surgery is quite safe and result oriented, but the patient may feel little discomforts arise after surgery. The patient is advised for a few days of bed rest to reduce the muscle spasm and allow the back to rest, but excessive bed rest can also weaken the muscles supporting your spine. However, in the surgical option, microsurgery is performed, but a patient may feel mild pain and discomfort during and after surgery.

But the patient must remember one thing treatment option can be any of two, but it will be advisable for bed rest for a few days to revive your back pain and give you the best treatment results with any treatment approach. However, in some cases, both approaches are combined to eliminate the back pain problem.