Service Details

Back pain

About back pain

Our backs are a carefully engineered network of bones, tendons, ligaments, and nerves that help balance and bear the weight of our bodies and the loads we carry. Any minor damage or imbalance to this delicate system can stress muscles and joints, causing pain and injury. A lifetime of poor posture, poor lifting, bending and reaching, and twisting activities can gradually weaken your back’s supportive structures as well as cause pain and injury.

Back pain: Who all are affected?

Previously low back pain was considered as degenerative spine disease as the incidence was higher in people with age group greater than 40 yrs. Nowadays the disease profile has changed. Because of long working hours spent in sitting in front of laptop or in commuting to workplace, excessive use of gadgets, poor posture, inactive lifestyle contributes to higher incidence of back pain among younger population.

Risk Factors that lead to Back Pain include the following:

• Being overweight. Your back has to support too much weight when you’re carrying extra pounds.
• Poor muscle tone. If your muscles are not well toned, they can’t meet the challenge when you ask something extra of them.
• Poor posture. Poor posture creates bodily stress, which can result in pain.
• Improper lifting. Heavy lifting, carrying children, as well as occupational lifting can cause injury.
• Desk /computer jobs. Our bodies don’t thrive sitting for long periods of time hunched over keyboards or other workspaces.
• Unhappiness. Researchers3 have found that general dissatisfaction with our social and economic situations can double or triple the risk of low back pain.

With all these risk factors, it is no wonder so many of us suffer from back pain. But it’s not a part of life you have to passively accept.

What are the types of back pain?

Your back pain could be classified into two types depending upon how long you have had it.

1. Acute Back Pain

This pain lasts for 0 to 3 months. Usually caused due to recent trauma in the form of direct injury to the back from an accident causing fractures, dislocation OR due to repetitive stress to the lower back like repeated bending, twisting activities, lifting heavy weights. It also can be experienced because of maintaining a static posture for a long time. For example, sitting/standing for long time. The nature of pain can be sudden, sharp shooting, stabbing or dull aching pain which may be localized to the back or travel to one or both lower extremities.

2. Chronic Back Pain

The pain that typically lasts even after the healing time of the tissue is over, is known as chronic pain. it is usually due to the repetitive stress injury to the muscles, ligaments and discs mostly because of adapting poor posture.