Healing the Lower Back

By Rev. T. G. Morrow

When your lower back “pops out,” it can be extremely painful, but it can be fixed fairly quickly.
First, if you have to sit, place a cushion under the good side to create a natural traction on the spasm side. Then put a fairly hard cushion about 6-8" up from the seat, producing an arch in your back. This is actually better than lying down with this condition.
Another thing to do is to buy a capsaicin patch, 5"x7". That warms it up and gets the blood in there. Then get a belt for the sacroiliac, which you wear if you have to walk or stand. Both of these you can get at Walmart for a decent price.
If you do these things, you should be able to walk normally in 3-4 days.
To adjust your back so this won’t happen again, you should stretch your back every day. I do this every morning - these 6 exercises lying on the bed:

1. Pull one knee up to the chest and hold it for a time, then the other, and then both.

2. Lift one leg straight up, extended, and hold it for a few seconds, and then the other, to stretch the hamstrings.

3.*** Reach your hands toward your toes with your legs slightly bent (if they aren't bent, this will just stretch your hamstrings, which is not the primary object here). Try to touch your nose to your kneecap. This really stretches the muscles in the lower back. You do it gently. It takes me 3 minutes to get there. This stretches the muscles up and down the spine. They are like springs that shrink as we age. By stretching these only 1/4", a doctor told me you can take a lot of pressure off your vertebrae.

Once I started doing these daily, sitting on my bed, I had no more back outages ever. (I still use the cushions when driving.) Amazing.