Medical Treatment of Back Pain

Back pain is universal and pervasive in emergency rooms worldwide. There are different intensities and causes involved in this symptom, and treatment depends on each case. Sometimes people have had lingering back pain for many years. In other cases, it is very intense and acute. Thus, treatment varies from patient to patient. The same medication can have different results from one to the other.

That’s one of the challenges of treating back pain. Doctors do not always have the same results with all of their patients. There are protocols on how to treat this symptom, but sometimes we have to be very clever to look for real solutions. Also, many causes of back pain are diagnosed as nonspecific, which makes the process of studying back pain almost similar to a guessing game in the first stage of treatment.

In any case, back pain treatment in the medical field can be very easy or rather complex. In some cases, it only requires pharmacologic treatment. In others, drugs should be combined with rehabilitation, physical therapy, and psychological treatment. Alternative medicine is also useful in these cases, and some patients benefit from surgery and more invasive treatment.

In this article, we’re briefly reviewing all of these modalities to have a broad understanding of the medical treatment for patients with back pain.