The popular myth about what to do with back pain is dispelled

For back pain, people often resort to traditional medicine. One of its methods is

warming up the affected area. Discuss

According to neurologist Dmitry Shubin, the opinionthe fact that warming up helps to get rid of discomfort in the back is nothing more than a myth. Moreover, in a person applying a heating pad to the lower back, the pain can only increase.

Back pain is a consequence of inflammation and edemaintervertebral joints. (…) When we bring heat to the lower back, no matter where, even bring it to the knee, the same thing will happen, the blood will flow, the swelling and inflammation will intensify, the pain will get worse.

Dmitry Shubin

At the same time, his colleague, Elena Malysheva, noted that sometimes when warming up, back pain can stop. But that will be only a temporary effect - in the future, the person will only get worse anyway.