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Not an immediate remedy, but my input here is not to mistake rest for healing.If your back pain is muscle related, rest may relieve the pain, but will also continue to allow those muscles to atrophy, potentially seeing you up for more pain. Active recovery, building back the strength of those muscles, can be very important if this is the cause of your pain.
In the end, a doctor of some sort will be your best bet for finding out the root cause of your pain, and generally the appropriate way to address it.
Fully agree. A physio once used an analogy which really resonated with me: think of your spine as the main pole in a tent. If the ropes are loose, it’ll be wobbly. When the ropes are tensioned properly the tent is solid.
If your problem is related to posture or being sedentary a lot (a common first-world problem) then gently rebuilding the strength in the muscles in your back will tension the guy ropes and make better posture happen naturally, often reducing pain at the same time.
Not medical advice - even gentle exercise could be exactly wrong for whatever ails you! But that analogy helped me understand that resting isn’t automatically good, even if it feels nice at the time.