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Causes of low back pain are under the influence of so many factors such as improper posture, overworked muscles, muscle strain and accident. However, it should also be noted that risk factors can attribute to pain occurrence. Risk factors include aging, size and shape of the spine, smoking, long driving, stress, and exhausting physical labor in work.
Low back pain is truly common, when you have one; rest assured you are not alone. Almost everyone has it because it is the most common back disorder experienced at school, work and even at home.
Pain in the back accounts for more disability if left untreated comparing to other medical conditions. The pain can vary from mild to severe, and it will interfere with your work and activities at home and daily living.
If you want this to prevent from causing your life to be unproductive, it is important to know different factors that trigger the pain occurrence.
Causes of low back pain are categorized as mechanical, physical, neurological, biomechanical and psychological.
1) Mechanical Causes: This is brought about by the spine's position and functional abnormalities.
- Muscle Strain
Muscle strain happens when muscles are forced, shocked, overstretched, overworked and tightened forcefully. This usually happens when your body is still unadjusted yet you engaged it to rigid exercises without enough stretching. It also happens when you have laborious works, requiring long periods of standing and sitting.
- Osteoarthritis?
Osteoarthritis is a common condition among aging. When one ages, the bone joints are degenerating in function. The bone will become tender and stiff thus causing pain in the lower back. The lower back is usually affected as this condition can make walking a hardest thing to do, so the person slouches affecting the lower back again.???
- Narrowing of the spine
This is a condition of the spine wherein the spinal canal compressed the nerves. It is also associated with aging as the spine will degenerate in function thereby causing pain in the lower back.
2) Physical Causes: This is affecting the body as a whole.
- Cancer
Cancer can be one of the contributory factors for back problems. This usually happens on the later stage as spreading of cancer cells can happen. As the cells spread, they can invade the spine's normal tissues and cells. As this happens, the spine will lose its function and an intense pain on the back will be felt.
- Infections
Infection can be a cause because of the bacterial invasion directly into the spine during an operation. As this can penetrate into the spine, pain in the lower part of the back is also felt. Usually, strong anti bacterial drugs is the best treatment for this so prevent further damage causing inflammation, and will cause severity of the area.
- Neurological Disorders
Back Pain pinched nerve is the most common neurological disorder. The nerve is responsible for carrying information from the brain to the rest of the body to cause certain movement or action. When the nerve is compressed, it will no longer take its function well, and the spine will also be affected causing low back pain on the area that radiates down to the legs. Muscle spasm can also be felt during a pinched nerve.
3) Biomechanical Causes: This is the most common causes of low back pain. This is very common among many and it is related to poor posture with protruding buttocks and abdomen, over arching of the back and head is overly forwarded in an exaggerated position. These poor postures can lead to chronic back pain causing wear and tear of the spine.
4) Psychological Causes: According to research, it has been known that psychological cases like these are strongly associated with back pain. This is commonly called as "stress-related back pain". Although this is not common, those people who are emotionally stress believes that back pain is the direct result of their emotions. examples are seen below.
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Anger
- Stress
- Lack of effective coping skills
- Person's belief to control pain
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