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Experts recommend sleeping on your back with a firm mattress, a slim, firm pillow under your neck, and a pillow under the knees and lower back. Side and stomach sleepers can also use modifications and supportive bedding to promote sleep.

Around one in five people with acute low back pain will develop chronic low back pain within a year. Many of these individuals are employees who drive back and forth from work. If you're one of these workers, you're likely wondering, "Can you add lumbar support to a car seat?"

Exercising correctly with a strained back can re-strengthen your core muscles and help relieve your pain, but improper exercise can make your pain and injury worse. This means that, along with seeking appropriate medical attention, you'll need to find alternative ways to stay active and avoid pushing yourself too hard. You can also take advantage of quite a few medication-free approaches to pain relief, including supportive lumbar braces and heat treatments.

Sciatica occurs one of many causes irritates your sciatic nerve, thus causing debilitating lower back pain. Lower back pain can occur without sciatica, but sciatica ultimately causes lower back pain.