How Long Does It Take For A Back Muscle Pain To Heal?

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How Long Does It Take For A Back Muscle Pain To
Heal?
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• When you have a pulled muscle in your back, local
  Physio on the Gold Coast can assist in a speedy
  recovery.
• Pulled Back Muscle Symptoms
• The soft tissues found in the lower back become
  damaged for a variety of reasons, some of the
  most common include
• Using poor form while lifting a heavy object
  resulting in twisting the spine
• Placing too much pressure on the spine during a
  fall
• Stressing the connective tissues in the spine
  through poor posture
• Pivoting, twisting, or physical impact during
  sports or doing manual labour

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• A strain or sprain in your back can result in
  symptoms such as
• A dull, aching pain in areas of the lower back
• Difficulty when standing, sitting and twisting
• Stiffness in the lower back area
• Muscle spasms
• Pain that radiates down to the buttocks
• A sprain happens when a ligament connecting a
  bone to another bone is torn or stretched.
  Strains happen if tendons or muscles fibers are
  torn or stretched. The treatments and recovery
  times are similar.

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Recovery Time for a Pulled Back Muscle

• This can take anywhere from a few days to several
  weeks or more to achieve a full recovery. The
  main factors in determining the recovery time are
  the treatment approaches and the injury severity.
  
• With a mild pulled muscle it may heal in a few
  days with rest, but many strained muscles can
  take about four to six weeks to properly heal. In
  severe cases, pulled muscle can take ten weeks or
  longer.
• Your Physio on the Gold Coast can help to speed
  up your recovery time using a proactive treatment
  approach.

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Back Muscle Treatment

• Often you can treat a pulled back muscle at home
  by using RICE which stands for, rest, ice,
  compression, elevation. This is an old remedy
  that is usually successful, but takes time.
  Visiting your local Physio on the Gold Coast can
  help to accelerate your recovery, this is because
  they have the expertise and are able to use more
  advanced treatments such as active compression,
  cryotherapy and rapid contrast therapy.

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Cryotherapy

• This uses cold to help reduce the swelling and
  pain associated with a pulled muscle. This uses
  ice packs to reach a therapeutic temperature, but
  these only deliver the cold to a limited area and
  soon lose their cold temperature.
• A cryotherapy system uses body-conforming wraps
  that contain integrated cold-circulating
  chambers. This delivers the therapeutic cold at a
  controlled and consistent temperature over
  specified areas so the cold temperature can reach
  more of your damaged tissues.

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Active Compression

• The active compression technique is where air is
  pneumatically pumped through integrated chambers
  inside body-conforming wraps that mimic the
  natural squeeze and release action of muscle
  contractions, helps to remove any excess fluid
  thereby reducing swelling.

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Rapid Contrast Therapy

• Heat therapy helps promote circulation, which
  brings freshly oxygenated blood and nutrients to
  the healing tissues, but using only heat can
  cause additional swelling.
• Rapid contrast therapy where the rapid
  alternating hot and cold treatment provides the
  benefit of both therapy approaches without the
  risk of swelling that heat can cause.
• Having your Physio on the Gold Coast treat your
  back pain will dramatically speed up your
  recovery time so you feel less pain and can get
  back to normal.

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