After the first couple of days of an injury, intermittent gentle exercise is usually beneficial, ice packs and heat packs can also ease symptoms, speed recovery and limit the long term effects. Specialist help can also facilitate a full recovery, reduce scar tissue improve healing.

Longstanding back pain is likely to involve varying degrees of wear and tear, postural changes and altered muscle tone and function. Anti-inflammatories and pain killers can help mask the symptoms but they do not address the physical mechanical factors that may be maintaining the problem or have lead to it in the first place. Whilst there is usually no quick fix for a chronic back pain sufferer if the right factors are addressed for that individual there is often much that can be done to physically rehabilitate someone with chronic back pain that will lead to longterm improvement in their symptoms.