Ways I've used to help my back. What ways have you tried to take care of yours?

I am not sure if this will work for your back but I have been taking some supplements called Vitamin B1,B6, B12. This was prescribed by the company doctor when I complained about back pains and shoulder pains. I am not into taking all those over the counter pain killers since it causes an acid influx.

Other than exercise, I have use a rolling pin a few times..lol Yep, I will grab the rolling pin and roll it up and down and across my back, but of course I can only reach so many places..

I've had a bad back since my teens when a horse I was breaking to ride stomped on my back! I do all kinds of things when it bothers me. I do gentle stretching exercizes to try and keep it limber. When it really nags me, I use a product called Theragesic. Lots of our local sports coaches have the kids use that. It's kind of like one of those icy hot type products, but this stuff is the only stuff that actually gives me relief and doesn't bother my skin. I also use it on my arthritic hand and knees.(I like that after you apply it, once you let it soak in a while, you can wash the skin off and you don't have that 'I've got Ben Gay on' smell lol.) I also sleep with a pillow under my knees to take the strain off my back. When at the computer, my feet are on a footstool to keep the knees up some and stress off the back. Sometimes when my back gets really out of whack, my one Dr's suggestion I find really helps a lot. He told me to lay on my back, and draw my left knee up to my right shoulder and press down (of course I can't do that alone, so my daughter helps, and it never goes that far...I'm not that pliable anymore haha.) Then I repeat with the other leg. He is absolutely right though, the gentle overstretch of the muscles eases the back pains. I have done the tennis ball bit. With that, I place the ball just to the side of the spine where it hurts, and lay on it for a little while. It does help sometimes, kind of like when somebody gives you a deep massage over a muscle knot; there again, it is hyper-stretching the muscle a little. Good luck! Having a bad back isn't any fun at all!

When i was about seven months pregnant with my daughter my back would hurt me something terrible. I was hot in the house and so I started sleeping outside on the ground. I slept on the ground every night for about two months and never felt better. I really didn't think it would help but it did.