Lower Back Stiffness Solution?
Recently, I posted about lower back stiffness and pain on a camping trip. So much pain as to wake me at 4AM. It was very damp, and I was sleeping in a tent, all be it on a 4″ foam pad. And anti-inflammatory medications like ibuprofen did nothing. The next night or two at home, I had a similar, but much milder stiffness, not enough to prevent sleep. I tried the following:
Rubbed my back with Arbonne Herbal Muscle Massage Gel, which contains menthol, capsaicin (hot peppers), methyl salicylate and eucalyptus. This is basically Icy Hot with a hot pepper kick. (I don’t sell Arbonne by the way!)
Also, I used my Trueback for a few minutes. Read here about how I use the True Back decompression device.
The result was I had no stiffness at all for the next few days! And the next night, I slept 9 hours! (9 hours beats 5 any day)
So which helped? The back rub cream, or the Trueback? I suspect what I have going on here in my back is just simple old age stiffness (arthritic?) and the back rub cream is helping. But just to know, I will try the back rub cream alone and also try the Trueback alone the next time I get a stiff back in the morning – somehow I know that there are more stiff back mornings to come.