Say Goodbye to Back Pain

pain. The cracks or tears that develop within the annulus fibrosus can also become a source of pain. Back pain that is caused by ...

itself consists of millions of nerve fibres which transmit electrical information to and from the limbs, trunk and organs of the ...

The spinal cord is surrounded by three layers of protective membranes called meninges. Of the three sets of membranes protecting ...

Intervertebral foramina (side view) Thirty-one pairs of nerve roots emerge from the spinal cord through these spaces. At each ve ...

Each vertebra has a hole in the middle (spinal canal) through which a large bundle of nerves – the spinal cord – passes. The spi ...

The muscles of the spine There are a vast number of muscles that act on the backbone. These help us to bend forward (flexion), b ...

 Abnormal posture   Improper and/ or excessive weight lifting  damage from further injured area Paraspinal muscles are thou ...

There are two groups of paraspinal muscles that act as extensors of the spine (bend it backwards) and are most often injured due ...

offer great strength to the lumbar area. The appearance is that of one common back muscle. Multifidus The multifidus muscle cons ...

The lower back, or lumbar spine, can be vulnerable to many pain-causing injuries or disorders because the lumbar vertebrae carry ...

Iliopsoas The Iliopsoas is actually composed of two muscle groups. The Psoas component (also known as the Psoas muscle) arises f ...

When this muscle group contracts, it pulls the body forwards and thereby prevents it from falling backwards. Summary The spinal ...

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 ...