We often have patients that come in to see us that are unsure what has caused their back pain. One minute they were fine, the next their back hurts. What could be going on?
Your back is actually incredibly strong and we are fortunate to be able to take for granted how strong it is for most of our lives. It is only when an injury occurs and something as simple as getting out of a chair hurts that we realise what we normally take for granted.
Physical and emotional stress on our tissues can be cumulative. Your back and whole nervous system are constantly adapting to the various activities and stresses of daily life. This happens unconsciously. But, if you repeat habits that place stress on the back frequently enough so that the body cannot adapt any further, pain will often ensue. This may seem to come out of the blue but might actually have been building for a while. You don’t feel the build up, but unfortunately feel the end result.
Pain is a warning from the body that you need to put the brakes on. It not only occurs due to an obvious physical event, such as lifting a pot in the garden, but more often than not from an accumulation of all of life’s various stresses combined. It can then only take another minor physical, emotional or social event (that may not even be noticeable) to act as the straw that breaks the camels back.
