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Millions of
Americans suffer from muscle related problems.
Your doctor will often prescribe a
muscle
relaxant
to relieve your
painful muscle spasm symptoms. The main
benefit of a
muscle
relaxant
is to reduce
muscle spasm. Although scientific researchers
are not quite certain how they work, muscle
relaxants reduce painful muscle spasm and
tightness, breaking the spasm-pain-spasm
cycle. The good news is that when taking a
muscle relaxant, most people start feeling
better soon. Muscle relaxants are not really a class of drugs, but rather a group of different drugs that each has an overall sedative effect on the body. These drugs do not act directly on the muscles, rather they act centrally (in the brain) and are more of a total body relaxant. Typically, muscle relaxants are prescribed early in a course of back pain, on a short-term basis, to relieve low back pain associated with muscle spasms. There are several types of muscle relaxant medications that are commonly used to treat low back pain: |
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