Back pain is a fairly common phenomenon, it is difficult to find a person who does not have this problem.
The age-old problem of "lack of time" to see a doctor is also characteristic, whereby most people prefer to self-medicate, in which they use gels and ointments that are actively advertised to eliminate pain. back.
Along with these means, wall putty is heavily advertised. This back treatment has been known for a long time, but in recent years it did not become widely available until the major manufacturers adopted it.
To understand whether such patches are really effective, one should understand the possible causes of back pain.
Why does my back hurt?
Back pain can have many causes. The most harmless of these are minor injuries and sprains that a person can get while playing sports and during physical work.
Although, in the absence of due attention to such minor injuries, they can have very unpleasant "delayed" consequences affecting the condition of the back muscles and the musculoskeletal system itself. Osteoarthritis.
But in the general case, such minor injuries remind themselves of pain for a few days, after which they gradually disappear.
But the most common cause of severe back pain is osteonecrosis and its consequences.
The disease is dangerous because it develops gradually and in its early stages, when it can still be treated successfully, it does not manifest itself with any actual symptoms.
In the future, this disease itself will become the cause of various pain syndromes, the formation of herniated discs, etc.
If you can still ignore the back microtraumas while waiting for the time when they stop causing pain, it won't work for osteonecrosis - when its effects manifest, you can't stand the intense painfor a long time and still have to go. go to the doctor.
In addition, if minor injuries are successfully eliminated by improvised means, then serious back diseases must be treated for many years.
The main cause of pain in this disease is the invasion of the nerve roots of the spinal cord. Such compression can occur for a variety of reasons, but it is this compression that is responsible for most pain syndromes.
The effect of warming in the treatment of back pain
When treating injuries or back conditions, doctors almost always recommend "dry heat" along with necessary medications.
This usually means wrapping the affected part of the body with a warm fluffy towel - so that the back over the affected area is well "warmed".
This "dry heat" improves blood circulation, so inflammation and edema are reduced to some extent, resulting in less pressure on the compressed nerve root.
Accordingly, the pain syndrome gradually decreases. Of course, this method by itself will not cope with severe pain, but it is quite suitable as a kind of auxiliary means.
Furthermore, it can be noted that most of the folk remedies for back pain are based on the warming effect of the affected back area. And with pain that is not too intense, such methods will successfully cope, although they do not allow you to eliminate the cause of them.
Replacement heater for tablets
When it comes to back pain, doctors often prioritize medication. And such methods in most cases involve the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which reduce inflammation and provide rapid pain relief.
Thus, NSAIDs primarily pursue one goal - pain relief, which in most cases they cope with successfully.
But these drugs have a serious drawback - the treatment of back diseases involves their long-term use, during which side effects begin to appear.
The most common of these effects are gastrointestinal disturbances. So, for example, the treatment of a herniated disc can last up to a year, and the use of NSAIDs without significant consequences for the patient's body can rarely last more than a month.
This has led to the fact that doctors are forced to prescribe these drugs in the minimum effective doses and look for alternative treatments.
First of all, they pay attention to gels and ointments, which are available in large quantities in pharmacies.
But half of them in this case are inappropriate, since their entire effect is based on the action of all the same NSAIDs. Ointments with a "warming" property are much more expensive and less common.
Another popular alternative today is plasterboard, which has an invisible effect, attaches tightly to the back and relieves back pain quite effectively.
Types of patches back
Gypsum pepper
The oldest and "worthy" is alabaster, which has been known for a long time. The principle of action is simple and clear - a special pepper composition is applied to the sticky surface, which has an irritating and warming effect on the skin.
Perhaps the only drawback of such a patch is the pungent nature of pepper, which slightly violates the rules for using the patch, which can lead to severe skin irritation.
And this will severely limit the possibility of treatment - the inflamed area cannot be massaged, it is impossible to put another plaster on it or apply a warming gel or ointment.
These shortcomings became the reason for the search for alternative warming preparations that would be applied to the patch with equal effectiveness.
Anesthesia without warming - NSAID patch
Some manufacturers have decided to simply and gracefully ignore the problem of skin irritation - the same non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are simply applied on the patch, they are gradually absorbed into the skinand has a therapeutic effect.
Thanks to this patch, back pain is quickly eliminated, the risk of irritation is minimal and the problem of overheating is also not worth it. But this patch also has disadvantages.
For example, they are definitely not suitable for those who prefer to do without "chemistry" if possible, since the main active ingredient is the same as in the tablet, only it enters the body through the skin, has allunpleasant side effects.
Heat reflection
Another option is putty, which contains one or another "reflective" coating. It is not so important as the specific call of the manufacturer, the essence is the same - the heat radiated from the human body is reflected and accumulated, as a result of which the warming effect appears.
Of course, such patches have practically no contraindications (since there are no active ingredients), but it is better to stick them not on the skin, but on the linen.
"Miracle plasters" from China
There are several types of patches that have been developed in China based on local traditional medicine. The composition of such a patch contains a lot of botanical ingredients, each of which (in theory) should have a certain therapeutic effect.
Such a patch is a very good option for lovers of "natural" treatments, the only drawback of which is the unconfirmed effectiveness.