Cause of lower back pain?
Can you point the exact cause of your pain, so that you can
treat it and get rid of the pain immediately? Sometimes you can. Though you
need to be careful as back problems and symptoms have different causes.
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Many people on the internet offer information on exact
causes to help sell you a cure, and no doubt some of them even work. However,
the concept of "cause" can be a tricky one - even to a doctor or
other medical professional. Sometimes your acute pain will cure naturally. In
fact, most people have back pain during their life. It is a normal occurrence.
And many times the pain goes away on its own without any type of treatment.
If you are using some type of treatment and your pain
symptoms vanish, you might attribute the disappearance to whatever treatment
you were receiving, when - in fact - the pain simply disappeared on it's own -
the way a fever, cold, or a bad mood might simply go away on its own.
We have unique lifestyles, beliefs and experiences. Consider
the popular medical idea that bone strength, muscle elasticity and muscle tone
decrease with age. And that as we age the "discs" in the spine begin
to lose flexibility and their ability to cushion and protect the vertebrae.
That may be true.
But does it cause the pain in your lower back? Not
necessarily.
A person's bone density will decrease with age and perhaps
even the disks in parts of their spine. But some people have damage in their
lower disks and they have no pain. Your experience needs to be considered.
Here are some cause of back pain, especially pain in the
lower areas of your back.. But keep in mind, many people also have the symptoms
or conditions below but NO PAIN.
- Injury or trauma to the back
- Degenerative conditions such as Arthritis
- Osteoporosis or other bone disease
- Viral infections
- Irritation to joints or discs
- Spine abnormalities that a person is born with
Let's not forget so-called life-style factors such smoking,
obesity, weight gain from pregnancy, stress, general bad posture, and bad
posture in certain tasks such as when lifting heavy objects. There are also
factors such as a pinched or compressed nerve.
So when all is said and done, it is important to
not use a treatment for your pain that is expensive or irreversible. For
example, surgery for back pain is almost never recommended. Why? Because the
symptoms may go away on their own or may go away with some type of gentle
treatment such as massage, exercise, Feldenkrais sessions or other non-invasive
(and cheaper) treatment.
