Understanding Lower Back Pain
September 21, 2009 by Back & Neck Pain Resources
Filed under Back Pain Conditions, Lower Back Pain
It is a fact that nearly all people from around the world would have experienced some form of lower back pain during a period in their lives. In fact, it is such a common occurrence that many people would choose to just live with it and continue with their daily activities.
However, pushing through with your regular activities when you have lower back pain may not be a good idea because of the possibility of aggravating your injury. Hence, it is a smarter choice to first let your injury heal or get treatment for it before resuming you day to day doings.
Of course, in order to get the proper treatment, you should first understand what lower back pain truly is.
What causes lower back pain?
As the name implies, lower back pain is a painful feeling or tightness in the lower back portion of the body. This pain could be caused by a variety of reasons that are usually classified into two groups. The first is by physical injury or trauma, and the other reason is that it is caused by muscular imbalances.
Physical injury is when you tweak your back muscles because of an unnatural motion. It could be twisting vigorously or a bending movement that was done too rapidly. In this case, your muscles may have tears in them which would cause the pain. Similarly, trauma is when you get hit by an external object in that portion of the body which would also cause lower back pain.
On the other hand muscle imbalance when you have one part of your body that is overdeveloped but other parts are not. By having one part overly developed the other muscles become weak and stretched out of their usual position.
This can happen for a variety of reasons. Some reasons would include your posture at work (seating in a certain way would develop a few muscles while straining the rest), playing a certain sport that only utilizes one muscle group, or even over reliance on a dominant hand or side of your body (left handed people would have a more developed left hand than their right hand).
What are the common treatments of lower back pain?
The common treatments would usually try to give people some relief for their pains but not necessarily treat the root causes of it. As such, most treatments would be pain killing creams, Non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and hot and cold compresses applied to the painful region of the body.
What can I do to really treat my lower back pain?
As mentioned earlier, the treatments tackled above do nothing but numb the pain without trying to solve the main causes. As such, the things that you would have to do in order to be free from lower back pain would be those that would target the reason that you are feeling some pain.
You may want to engage in some muscle balance therapy to help remove the muscle imbalances that cause the pain. It would give you pain relief not because it numbs the pain but rather treats the root cause of it.
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