 Alcohol
avoidance
While alcohol is sometimes used as a self-prescribed
medication to help deal with chronic pain, it probably
causes far more problems than it solves and should not
be used to treat low back pain. Although alcohol will
act as a muscle relaxant, it does not have any actual
analgesic (pain killing) effect.
Moreover, from a pharmacology standpoint, alcohol is
a major depressant and will exacerbate any preexisting
depression and is also dangerously habit-forming (addictive).
It is fattening and tends to impede a patient’s
overall rehabilitation process. On the whole, large
doses of alcohol may seem to help temporarily, but will
compound the many already existing problems a patient
with chronic pain faces.
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