You can't beat a bit of heat when pain comes along and I find these heat wraps ideal for travel and Christmas shopping... available from Superdrug and Amazon and many other outlets.

• ThermaCare HeatWraps for Lower Back & Hip provides up to 16 hours of therapeutic relief from back pain when worn for eight hours.

Dreamland Therma Therapy Heatpad is amazing. Mine goes with me             whenever I go to stay with friends and even on holiday as it's easy to             plug in and really works on paid. It would make a lovely Christmas                present for any back pain sufferer, and is also available from Amazon Hotties Soothing Backwrap is a Microwaveable Heat Wrap for the relief of lower back pain and can be purchased from Amazon.