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Watch as Dr. Andrea Pennington provides recommendations on natural treatments for back pain.
Gua Sha is a wonderful Eastern Asian therapy for back pain. In Gua Sha we're actually taking a wooden or a a plastic Chinese soup spoon if you can believe that, Gua means to scrape and Sha means red rash. So we're literally scraping away, back pain for example. The red rash will come almost immediately and that's because we're activating the body's energy, the Chi and as that Chi starts to flow so does the blood flow.
The pain starts to go away for some people immediately, and that little red rash will go away in a couple of days.
Whether it's lower back pain from strained muscles or a severe pain from an injury, back pain is a very common complaint. Learn about the causes, symptoms and treatment for back pain. Even better, find out how to prevent back pain.
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