Top 10 tools to have at home for back pain.
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There are many useful tools and supplements that you can keep at home to help with back pain and a host of other aches and pains. This top 10 list is simple but the tools are readily available, generally affordable and depending on your problem, extremely effective in supplementing your chiropractic care in between visits. This list does not include the obvious “stretching”, because it is practice, not a physical tool.
- Heating Pad
- Foam Roller
- Theracane
- Ice pack
- Interferential/TENS unit (electrical stimulation)
- Hot Tub or Bathtub
- Inflatable Exercise Ball
- Formula 303 (herbal muscle relaxants)
- Tempurpedic Mattress
- A little gnome who lives in your basement and is also a chiropractor.
The value of home care in between visits is that the stress of our lives, past and present, will often overpower a 1-5 chiropractic adjustments a week. You simply must take care of yourself at home too. If you do, you’ll get better quicker, have longer lasting results and you’ll create habits that will be preventive in nature as well.