Massage Chairs Can Abate Need For Drugs For Pain Relief

By Jack Mc Fadden


If you suffer from pain in the lower back for instance, what are your options for relief? In essences there are two paths you can go down. There is natural pain relief and there is pharmaceutical pain relief. Massage therapy is a natural method of pain relief used for centuries. Massage chairs provide an automated way for us to receive massage therapy versus taking a drug like methadone for pain relief.

If you suffer from low back pain for instance, what options do you have? You can follow a natural method of pain relief or an artificial. If you take the pharmaceutical path, then a typical drug for pain relief is Methadone.

Methadone is an opioid and used for medical treatment. It works directly on the central nervous system. What many people do not know is that it is a pain reliever for chronic conditions. In certain cases, a doctor will prescribe methadone for is low back pain.

Doctors like to use methadone where the patient is indeed in pain and needs temporary relief. The drug works almost immediately to block the signals from the central nervous system to remove the pain. A normal dosage will provide pain relief for 4 to 8 hours. This is a quick fix used in chronic pain situations.

There certainly are some challenges using methadone. If methadone is used on a periodic basis, say daily, it begins to build up in the body. This means that the dose size needs to be increase because the body begins to build up resistance to it. Also, it may take you body up to a week to rid the traces of methadone out of your body.

Here are some of the side effects of using an opiod like methadone. You can feel weakness, nervous, drowsy, lose your appetite, have trouble sleeping and have a lower sex drive. Other important side effects include confusion, chest pain, heart beat irregularities, syncope, hallucinations and others. If you are pregnant or a new mother that is still nursing, then you should not use methadone as you can pass it to your baby via breast milk.

Although methadone is an effective treatment in chronic low back pain, you may experience withdrawal when coming off of the medication. If you are using methadone as treatment for chronic low back you must be carefully monitored by your primary care physician. Methadone treatment should start out as low as possible to obtain relief.

Massage chairs provide an alternative to a pharmaceutical solution. Massage therapy helps the body to relieve and reduce pain naturally. Massage chairs target the soft tissues, joints, muscles, tendons of the body. By using several massage techniques, muscle stiffness, aches and pains can be significantly reduced.

Massage chairs use techniques such as kneading, tapping, vibration and air compression to help reduce stiffness and increase flexibility of the muscles. For the lower back, a rolling massage helps to adjust each vertebra helping to increase the elasticity of the muscles and soft tissues.

A massage chair helps to increase blood flow by stimulating the muscles. It elongates the muscles of the spine which helps increase your flexibility. A penetrating deep tissue massage works the muscles all the way through to the bones providing natural pain relief.

Massage chair therapy provides a natural and therapeutic treatment for soothing and relieving tight and sore muscles. Because of muscle tension and tightness, massage therapy can make you sore after treatments. This is normal as these tissues are being flexed and elongated to restore their flexibility. As the tissues and muscles become more flexible, the pain also decreases. The important element is to obtain repeat treatment and this is where a massage chair is most convenient.

In my opinion, methadone treatment for lower back pain should only be considered if other forms of treatment are ineffective. It should only be used as a last resort where all other treatments have failed. The high risk for addiction and potentially life threatening side effects can lead to a variety of other health difficulties. If you are suffering from chronic low back pain see your primary care physician to get the best form of treatment for your condition. Ask them about natural methods and see if massage chairs are right for you.




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