Vibration analgesia and back pain

Low back pain is the most common cause
of short-term inability to work and carry out normal daily activities

as we spend more and more time in front of our desktop computers, laptops, and notebooks, becoming a true civilization disease on the increase. Our back, shoulders, and neck suffer a lot from maintaining this rigid & unnatural posture. Not only does the resulting disability lead to reduced productivity and thus our considerable economic losses, but it can also lead to chronic neurologic complications affecting the lower limbs and internal muscles, such as esophageal, gastric, and urinary tract sphincters.
Physiological mechanisms of vibration analgesia in low back pain
are based on peripheral stimulation induced analgesia

and relaxing effects of mechanical vibration on muscles in the treated area
According to the gate control theory of pain and From the gate to the neuromatrix, the strength of synaptic transmission at the dorsal horn and, similarly, at the trigeminal ganglia junctions is decreased, probably by presynaptic inhibition, when large, non-pain-signaling axons within the nerve are stimulated (causing the gate to "close").
The method has been extensively tested in Prague and Brno hospitals, leading medical research & treatment institutions in the Czech Republic and the European Union alike, involving round 50 low back pain sufferers with results confirming that vibratory analgesia of low back compares or is even slightly better than the conventional TENS method or application of local antiflogistic ointments in combination with medium strength painkillers like tramadol or NSAID.

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