Understanding and Conquering Back Pain
If you have difficulties in standing straight, if you have feeling of uneasiness while sitting, if you feel like your legs are becoming weak while you are walking, then you are experiencing lower back pain.
Lower back pain is the second common condition (first is headache) that cause being absent from work. It is also the number one cause why a lot of people visit their doctors or hospital’s emergency room.
Lower back pain is a treatable condition. The treatments and medications depend on the cause of your lower back pain. If the cause of you lower back pain is herniated disk, sciatica, spinal stenosis, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, cauda equina syndrome, cancer in the spine, infection of the spine or injury then you will need to take antibiotics, undergo spinal manipulation, surgery, physical therapy and etc. Before you choose a treatment, you must consult first your doctor on what kind of treatment that you really need. On the other hand, if cause of your back pain is just by not sitting, standing and lifting properly, then you can just take some pain killers and rest.
You need not to fear if you are experiencing lower back pain because it is really common and normal but you must remember also that you need to take some precautionary measures because the lower back pain that you are experiencing might be caused by something serious and could be life threatening.
Lower back pain is the second common condition (first is headache) that cause being absent from work. It is also the number one cause why a lot of people visit their doctors or hospital’s emergency room.
Lower back pain is a treatable condition. The treatments and medications depend on the cause of your lower back pain. If the cause of you lower back pain is herniated disk, sciatica, spinal stenosis, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, cauda equina syndrome, cancer in the spine, infection of the spine or injury then you will need to take antibiotics, undergo spinal manipulation, surgery, physical therapy and etc. Before you choose a treatment, you must consult first your doctor on what kind of treatment that you really need. On the other hand, if cause of your back pain is just by not sitting, standing and lifting properly, then you can just take some pain killers and rest.
You need not to fear if you are experiencing lower back pain because it is really common and normal but you must remember also that you need to take some precautionary measures because the lower back pain that you are experiencing might be caused by something serious and could be life threatening.