Lower Back Pain - What is the cause of lower back pain?

Lower Back Pain - What is the cause of lower back pain?

What is the cause (or causes) of back pain?

Can you determine the exact cause of your pain so you can treat it and get rid of the pain immediately? Sometimes you can. However, you need to be careful because back problems and symptoms have different causes.

The treatment paradox

Many people on the Internet offer information about the exact causes to help sell you a cure, and no doubt some of them even work. However, the concept of “cause” can be difficult – even for a doctor or other health professional. Very often, your acute (or short-term) pain will go away naturally. In fact, most people experience back pain during their lifetime. It's a normal occurrence. And often the pain goes away on its own without any treatment.

If you use treatment and your pain symptoms go away, you may attribute the disappearance to the treatment you received if the pain actually went away on its own - like a fever, cold, or bad mood might just go away on its own.

Likewise, people are complicated. 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 “intervertebral discs” in the spine lose flexibility and their ability to cushion and protect the vertebrae. That could be true. But is it causing the pain in your lower back? Not necessarily.

A person's bone density decreases with age and possibly even the discs in parts of their spine.But some people have damage to their lower discs and they have no pain.Your experience must be taken into account.

Here are some alleged causes of back pain, particularly pain in the lower areas of your back. But remember that many people also have the following symptoms or conditions, BUT NO PAIN.

Injury or trauma to the back

Degenerative diseases such as arthritis

Osteoporosis or other bone diseases

Viral infections

Irritation of joints or intervertebral discs

Spinal abnormalities that a person is born with

Let's not forget the so-called lifestyle factors such as smoking, obesity, weight gain due to pregnancy, stress, general poor posture and poor posture when doing certain tasks, such as lifting heavy objects. There are also factors such as a pinched or compressed nerve.

So when all is said and done, it is important not to use any treatment for your pain that is expensive or irreversible. For example, surgery for back pain is almost never recommended. Why? Because the symptoms can go away on their own or with gentle treatment such as massage, exercise, Feldenkrais sessions or other non-invasive (and cheaper) treatments.

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