Backpain is a chronic disease (it can be better called "weak back") but with acute periods of aggravation.
The usual treatment during these acute periods are antiinflammatory and muscle relaxant drugs, because the main mechanisms involved are inflamation and mucle contraction.
Termal and electrotherapy can also be useful.
In case of a slipped disk a traction table (spinal decompression table) can be useful and the disk may even, with a lot of luck, return to its proper place.
Surgery is useful especially when the intervertebral disk is broken and a part of it is loose, and that portion of the disc is removed by way of a surgical instrument or laser.
However, this will not remove the real cause of the problem, the bad, modified shape of the spine, but only the main mechanisms, inflammation and muscle contraction.
So, usually the problem will reappear, sometimes even in a different location (after succesful surgery).
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