Medical Conditions That Cause Back Pain
The most common condition affecting everyone who lives long enough is: old age. Over years of use, your vertebrae, muscles, and other tissues eventually wear out. Things like poor posture, excess weight, and a poor diet all cause this wearing out to happen even faster.
Otherwise, there’s the possibility of chronic inflammation in your spine due to an autoimmune disease, cancer growing in or near your spine putting pressure on your nerves there, types of arthritis causing different areas of your spine to swell and get inflamed, and many other conditions.
All this is not even getting to cases where kidney problems or lung issues radiate pain into your back. In these cases, while your back will hurt, nothing is actually wrong with it.
What most of these have in common is illnesses or your body doing something wrong.
Injuries Definitely Cause Back Pain
Bad falls and car accidents are just a couple of the more common ways your back can be injured, but they’re far from the only ways.
These cause pulled ligaments and tendons, and they also can literally break the bones making up your vertebrae, which is perhaps the most painful of all.
Herniated disks are also terrible to deal with, causing not only pain but numbness and weakness that often spread into your arms and legs.
We know that, in most of these cases, doctors are able to do a lot. However, it often takes months to heal from the more serious injuries, and sometimes, even then, there is permanent lingering pain.
Back Pain Can Be Caused By Exercising
Every time you bend or twist your spine, you use a wide array of muscles, tendons, and ligaments. So even if you don’t actually pull or damage anything, it will hurt if you suddenly start using these a lot more than you usually do on a daily basis.
Compare this to walking up and down multiple flights of stairs one day when you usually don’t need to climb stairs at all. Of course, your legs would hurt! Expect the same for your spine.
Fortunately, like the aforementioned leg pain, this type of back pain will sort itself out. To help this along, we advise hot or cold packs and plenty of stretches or similar movements to prevent anything from stiffening up.
A Word On Reducing Back Pain
We at Recovery Lab know the main way to reduce and prevent back is to stay healthy.
A healthy body is less likely to get any severe illnesses, including the sort of ones responsible for back pain. It also helps injuries heal faster, and it prevents back pain caused by exercising if you are working out regularly.
Of course, a large part of staying healthy is getting enough exercise. There are also various therapies, such as the cryotherapy and red light therapy we offer at our locations, able to help both your overall health and your back.
