Lumbago and low back pain Natural help against back pain

When it gets cold outside, many people suffer from back pain. Most of the time it's a lack of exercise during the winter months - who wants to go jogging when it's muddy and cold outside? Then heat does the back well and relieves the tension of the muscles. But even with chronic back pain, under which sufferers as a result of herniated discs, lumbago, sciatica or nerve constrictions, helps heat. In combination with radon, even painkillers can be saved for several months.

Many people with chronic back pain are entitled to a cure, which can bring much-desired pain relief, especially in winter. Those who have good experiences with heat can try out therapy sessions in so-called warm tunnels. "In thermal tunnels temperatures of over 37.5 degrees and high humidity up to 100 percent," says Univ.-Doz. Dr. Bertram HölzI, scientific director of the Gasteiner Heilstollen. "Since the body can not sweat enough due to the high humidity, the tropical climate leads to the so-called hyperthermia effect - a kind of desired therapeutic fever."

In these conditions, aching muscles relax. In addition, the noble gas radon is released from the mountain rock in small quantities, which the spa guests absorb via the breathing air and skin. Radon has been used as a remedy in low doses for many 100 years due to its high therapeutic efficacy in various diseases. "Radon releases mild alpha rays in the body.

These stimulate the body's own cell repair mechanisms and reduce the activity of inflammatory cells and painkillers. " Hölzl. During the two- to three-week course of treatment, patients usually visit the healing tunnel six to twelve times for one hour. The noticeable pain relief is not always immediate, but sometimes delayed a few weeks. It lasts about 9 months. Many patients often do not need pills for some time. Health insurance companies often take about 90 percent of the therapy costs for cures with radon heat therapy.