Say Goodbye to Back Pain

Mechanical causes – Here the cause is simply due to poor posture or improper lifting/ twisting resulting in muscle or ligament ...

Mechanical causes of back pain We come back to the same question that we asked in the previous chapter – why do we humans alone ...

Sitting puts almost twice the pressure on intervertebral discs as standing We have only ourselves to blame, since the most commo ...

Hamstring Muscle Shortening When we sit down, the hamstrings are pulled and maintained in that position for as long as we are si ...

Office chair sitting thus has major back pain related consequences:  ^ Tight hamstrings   ^ Iliopsoas strain   Erector Sp ...

Physiological causes As mentioned earlier in the first chapter, women tend to suffer more from back pain than men. Physiological ...

Caring for babies and young children – breast feeding, bathing, picking up, etc. adds to the risk of back pain. All these acts ...

At the workplace: The kind of jobs women do in the workplace also contributes a great deal to the increased incidence of back pa ...

Pathological causes of back pain Sources of pain Pain may originate from a number of areas in and around the spine. An acute (su ...

Activity, stress or a mechanical problem in the spine can cause one of the discs to bulge and become misshapen just as a rubber ...

Facet joints The facet joints are probably the primary sites of pain in 10-15% of patients with pathological low back pain. Face ...

Sacroiliac joint The sacroiliac joint is the junction where the sacrum meets and joins with the large fan- like pelvic bone at t ...

Summary of mechanical and pathological causes of back pain....................... Almost all cases of back pain fall into two br ...

Common disorders of the spine causing back pain Conditions causing back pain 1.^ Spinal osteoarthritis –^ also called spondylosi ...

in black Africans and Chinese and most common amongst Caucasians. Women over 55 years are more commonly affected than men. Predi ...

of the body that is subject to the most mechanical stress. The neck is also a common area for osteoarthritis (also called cervic ...

Pain, numbness and tingling occur in both legs especially while walking or standing. Standing and walking narrows the spinal can ...

lumbar region while twisting, stooping or coughing. He is unable to move. The acute pain gradually lessens in severity, but afte ...

to develop spondylolisthesis. Unlike most other types of back pain which affect the elderly, spondylolisthesis is often found in ...

In classic sciatica, the pain originates in the buttock and radiates down the back or side of the thigh to the calf and foot. Ti ...