What Causes Back Pain?
Back pain is among the most common injuries and aliments in America, with over half of all people experiencing back pain at some point. Back pain is often caused by neglecting back health, and is a common cause of missed days at work.
What are some characteristics of this surprisingly common condition?
Sufferers describe backache, as many people refer to back pains, in different ways: “a mild, dull ache”, “a sharp, stabbing pain”, “numbness” or “a feeling of stiffness”.
Back pain can cause mild discomfort to intolerable agony. On the extreme end, back pain can leave people bed-ridden and suffering nausea, vomiting, and fever. Back pain can be acute (due to a temporary condition like pregnancy), chronic (as with scoliosis), and sporadic (a lifetime of bad posture).
Whatever the cause, sufferers all agree that back pain results in physical and emotional difficulty. Unfortunately, back pain is a vicious cycle. Back pain, in and of itself, creates more back pain. Sufferers have poor posture, stooping over to alleviate some of the pain. This poor walking creates more back pain, making the problem worse.
What are some causes?
– Age, an unavoidable fact of life, brings with it back pain. It can be made worse with back disorders such as spinal stenosis.
– Temporary back pain which is often experienced by pregnant women and women with menopause. Some people mention they experience a type of “nervous’ back pain.
– Everyone knows someone who suffers with arthritis, a very common cause of back pain, particularly in the elderly and sports people.
– Sports and car injuries are another common cause. Lumbar strains, vertebrae fractures can cause specifically located back strain.
– Work related muscle stress, which may be caused by stooping or slouching as you work.
– Infections, both viral and bacterial, can cause back pain. Meningitis and urinary tract infections are just a few that result in back pain.
– Scoliosis or other spine conditions that are present at birth.
– Illness, such as liver or kidney disease.
As terrible as back pain is, it can be reduced, and often eliminated, by diagnosing the root cause. Degenerative disease and poor posture related pain can be reduced by conventional or homeopathic exercises and painkillers. Pain resulting from injury and disease can be completely eliminated.
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