What You Should Know About Back Pain

By Ron Stucky


If you've never experienced back pain, you're very luck and very unusual as well. As you may know, people that are older tend to complain about their back aching, mostly because this is a condition that most people will suffer from. Back pain can occur for several different reasons, and can be more or less serious, depending upon how it originally happened.

There are quite a few places that arthritis may surface and the back is often one of those. The majority of people over the age of 50 actually have a certain amount of spinal degeneration that is a type of arthritis. This affliction is not always incapacitating, but can make life much more intense when dealing with pain. You may worry about arthritis as you age, but in the meantime make sure to maintain a fit weight or you could cause damage to your spine. When you are overweight, you are creating a negative impact on your spine; which could initiate the onset arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by an inflammation rather than degeneration of the spine, and this can also cause back pain. Spinal arthritis can be pure torture, but in many cases there are drugs that can somewhat keep the pain at bay.

While it's natural to believe that the more severe a pain is, the more serious, this isn't always the case when it comes to back pain. The spasms that you have in your lower back may be significant, especially if you lift heavy objects on a regular basis.

Though very painful, they will typically abate over time and within a few days you will feel much better. Chronic back pain may not be as severe, but it can be more serious as it indicates a long term condition that needs addressing. When it comes to deciding how serious back pain is, then, you can't go by how much it hurts. The symptoms of back pain are not usually helpful in determining how bad your back is, even if tests are done by a medical professional.

Hopefully what we have presented in this article can help you understand a little bit more about back pain. By avoiding certain physical and emotional stresses, you can prevent back pain from occurring. If you already have back pain, this will help it heal much more quickly. You simply want to learn how to move properly and in doing so you can avoid back injuries and improve the condition of your back pain over time.




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