What painkillers are offered for back pain?

First things we'll ask is, you know, what have you taken for this sort of pain? So assuming that this is sort of muscular pain and it's manageable, we'll find out what actually have you been taking. In cases where we know they've got wear and tear of their lumbar discs or of their spine and where pain's ongoing for quite some time and as time has gone on the pain seems to be getting worse gradually, then we can step up things. So usually we'll use something like cocodamol. You can buy the lowest strength cocodamol over the counter but if you need higher strengths of codeine then that needs to be given on prescription and as I mentioned before we can use things like tramadol or even derivatives of morphine, slow release preparations, to ease pain in those people that really need it.