Painful lower back and knees.

Honeybee2022

I’ve found that visiting a chiropractor for soft tissue and deep tissue massage very beneficial. This ensures that joints are mobile and adjusted to maintain alignment and inflammation of ligaments and tendons eased out. At £50 a visit the cost is proving prohibitive. Is this sort of beneficial treatment available under the NHS or is there an alternative? Valium perhaps, a very good muscle relaxant.

PeterJ

Hello @Honeybee2022 and welcome to the community. We are a friendly and supportive group and I hope that you will find that as well.

I understand that you have found a chiropractor helpful but yes the £50s do mount up. To get help on the NHS I think you would need to talk to your GP and get a referral and also discuss pain relief. There are other pain management things you could look at, you could have a look at our website for hints and tips and I would recommend having a look around it. To help I've put in a couple of links below which may be of use.

https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/managing-symptoms/managing-your-pain/

https://escape-pain.org/

Please do keep posting and let us know how you are getting on and I am sure that others will connect with you to share their thoughts and experiences as well.

With very best wishes

Peter

Paulette

Has anyone on here have low back radiating down to knees and burning in legs. Had this for 4 months and awaiting mri.

Paulette