Top ten tips to prevent back pain :)

 

1. Limit total sitting time/Move around: The discs in your lower spine are loaded more while sitting than standing; so long periods of sitting can create or aggravate a painful back condition or while sitting or standing, don’t stay motionless for long; move around periodically. Standing continuously pressurises your spine.
2. Maintain a healthy weight and do back exercises:  Exercise, along with a healthy diet, also helps you lose weight or maintain a healthy weight. Being overweight or obese, or quickly gaining a significant amount of weight, are risk factors for low back pain do back and abdomen-strengthening exercises, per day or  during your workout routine for a more flexible, stronger back. Ex. Quadruped dumbbell row, lat pulldown,  Wide dumbbell row, Hyperextension.
3. Pillow under the knees: Sleeping on your back pressurizes the spine. A pillow under your knees reduces 50% of the pressure by elevating the legs. Or sleep on either side.
4. Maintain proper posture: Bad posture stresses your back, even changing the spine’s architecture. Standing or sitting, don’t slouch, but keep shoulders straight.
5. Support your back: In an office chair or the car, sit erect with a cushion under your lower back for support, if required.
   
   
   
6. Your shoes need to support your spine. Whether you're walking for exercise or just to get where you're going, the shoes you wear play an important role in supporting your lower back. High-heel shoes are another cause of back pain. Wear heels of less than an inch.
7. Reduce the load: Heavy bags are bad for the back. Reduce their weight or keep shifting from one shoulder to the other. Use a trolley/bag with wheels, if possible.
8. Increase Vitamin D and calcium intake: Bone pain and lower back pain may be signs of inadequate calcium and vitamin D levels in the blood and also lack of calcium can also lead to osteoporosis.
9. Enjoy the benefits of massage. A good back massage has a number of therapeutic benefits, such as increasing blood flow, loosening tight muscles and connective tissues, and boosting feelings of relaxation.

               10. .Stop smoking: Nicotine curbs blood flow to the spinal discs, cracking, drying or rupturing them. Smoking also lowers the blood’s oxygen supply, reducing nourishment to back muscles and tendons, making them vulnerable.

Diet and Neuralgia

 

Neuralgia is a stabbing, blazing, and often severe pain due to an irritated or damaged nerve.

The nerve may be anywhere in the body and the damage may be caused by several things, including:

Aging

Diseases such as diabetes

or multiple sclerosis

Demyelination, stress, compression of nerve roots

An infection, such as shingles

Tumors or multiple sclerosis

 

*  Main types of neuralgia

1] Post herpetic neuralgia:

This type of neuralgia occurs as a complication of shingles and may be anywhere on the body.

2] Trigeminal neuralgia :

This type of neuralgia is associated with pain from the trigeminal nerve, which travels from the brain and branches to different parts of the face.

When you feel you are in a nerve-shattering chaos good food can nourish you and help you get over the pain. So here are a few ingredients of secret recipes.

3] Glossopharyngeal neuralgia :

Pain from the glossopharyngeal nerve, which is in the throat, is not very common But, This type of neuralgia produces pain in the neck and throat.

          It’s a simple fact that certain foods and sometimes, even the act of chewing, brings on pain for patients with facial pain. This occurs with all manner of Odontogenic Pain. 

Whether the trigger is in the type of food, the consistency of the food, the temperature of the food, or the odor of the food, or sometimes all combined, is irrelevant to the fact that taking in the nutrients causes pain. Therefore, a good sense of what constitutes an optimal diet and what constitutes essential nutrition is important to maintaining good health.

Poor health, in the face of chronic pain of any type, be it back pain, diabetic foot pain, or face pain will make the pain seem worse.

Certain foods set off face pain and among those, we can include caffeine, chocolate, citrus fruits, and foods that have strong odors such as peppers, cinnamon. Hot foods such as salsa, chili, hot sauce, and cinnamon candy have set off face pain.

Aspartame which is an artificial sweetener which tends to increase sensitivity to pain, Dairy Foods have been linked to the causation of pain.

Aspartame as it moves through the metabolic process simulates certain neurotransmitters involved in the pain transmission pathway and therefore may reduce the balance in the brain between the pro-pain and anti-pain.

 

Foods that worsen pain.

1. Nutmeg

2. Black pepper

3. Chocolate

4. Eggs

5. Caffeinated drinks

6. Meat

7. Wheat

8. Nuts

9. Tomatoes

10. onions

11. Corn

12. apples

13. Bananas

14. Gelatin and whey.   Should be avoided.

Pain safe foods

1. Brown rice

2. Whole grains and nuts

3. Cooked or dried fruits such as cherries, cranberries, pears, prune.

4. Vegetables such as artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, chard, collards, lettuce, spinach, beans, squash, and sweet potatoes

 

               However,  the B vitamins alone, B1, B6, and B12 together, beneficial effect in the care of pain including neuropathic face pain, and which are an important component of nerve regeneration and repair, and their effects on pain.   And also B vitamins are useful in treating neuropathy since they support healthy nervous system function.

 

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