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Discover how to ease chronic back pain. Harvard Medical School brings you expert guidance to help you ease pain and keep your back strong and healthy.  If you’ve ever said, “Oh, my aching back,” you’re not alone. Among painful conditions, back pain is one of the most common, affecting 80% of all Americans at some point. You can break the chains of chronic back pain. While back pain is rarely caused by something life-threatening, it can threaten how fully you enjoy and live your life. The good news is you can treat back pain and take back control. You can ease the aches and the frustration. This new report from Harvard Medical School can show you how. In this guide you’ll learn the many reasons back pain occurs. And you’ll find how to select the right treatment strategies to accelerate relief, promote healing, and prevent recurrence. Get the healthy strong back you want and deserve! In Back Pain: Strategies to manage and relieve pain, Harvard doctors share the best practices, procedures and preventive steps to ease back pain and help you build a stronger, healthier back. You will have the facts you need to act wisely and confidently. Which medications relieve pain and avoid the dangers of opioids? Is an MRI better than a CT scan? Does chiropractic care work? Does a disc really “slip?” When necessary, which back surgery techniques are safest and most effective? The report will answer these questions and many more. You’ll be at the forefront of back care! This is guidance you can use from a source you can trust—Harvard Medical School. You’ll discover the crucial first step for treating a strain...the imaging test doctors rely on for diagnosing spinal stenosis...6 fast-acting medications that can help reduce back pain...and an outpatient procedure for compression fractures. Quite simply, we’ve got your back. The report brings you strategies for conditions ranging from bulging discs to vertebral fractures ...from sciatica and arthritis to spondylitis and spinal stenosis. You’ll know about conditions that will likely heal on their own and “red flag” symptoms that mean you need to see a doctor immediately. You’ll read about three back conditions that tend to run in families...minimally invasive procedures for addressing a herniated disc...an integrative therapy that can rival medications in reducing pain...and even the best sleep position (and best mattress) for low back pain. Put back pain behind you. Order your copy of Back Pain: Strategies to manage and relief pain today! Harvard Medical School offers special reports on over 50 health topics. Visit our website at http://www.health.harvard.edu to find reports of interest to you and your family. PHONE ORDERS - please call our toll-free number: 1-877-649-9457. Visit our website at: www.health.harvard.edu Email us at: healthbeat@health.harvard.edu FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook Twitter Copyright © 2026 by Harvard University. Harvard Health Publishing, Gordon Hall, Suite 013, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA