FACTS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT BACK PAIN


Excruciating back pain can be a night-mare.Prolonged pain in the back{neck,mid-back or waist} can be an agony to its victim. Disabling back pain can be annoying and distracting.Unfortunately there is no quick fix for back pain medically,its elusiveness to medical solution for many decades has been a puzzle.

Be careful how you use your back,for it is the power-house for the entire body supporting your trunk and making the movements of the head,hands and legs possible.Any serious problem with the back can result in unimaginable consequences.

Most funny and distressful feelings in the hands and legs are as a result of problems in the neck or waist.So it is always important to think BACK before you act in most activities you engage yourself doing.Don’t use your back as crane to lift heavy loads,carrying loads from deep car boots has caused uncountable back pain problems to many people.


Agonizing back pain{neck pain,mid-back pain and waist pain} can restrict your daily activity,reduce your work capacity and diminish your quality of enjoyment of everyday living.To be frank,the social and business lives of most people have been restricted drastically.

Most people who are back pain sufferers,may have either had their business commitments reduced or completely stopped.To some their social engagements may either have been brought to a gradual stop or even to an abrupt stop.To these victims of chronic back pain,attending social gathering such as church meetings,mosque,weddings,official meetings,parties,etc may have diminished.Many people,especially those in their middle ages have lost their sex life to this monster-back pain.The list is endless.

Preventive measures for back pain are more cost-effective and it works.Always think back whenever you are engage in any type of activity learn the correct body mechanics of lifting loads,carrying objects,pushing vehicles and even in activities involving conjugal obligation among couples.To take proactive measures against back pain are cheaper in terms of cost and convenient comfortable.

Drug or curative measures are unreliable and expensive.Thousands of people who are victims of common back pain can attest to the fact that the drugs and medicines prescribed for them have been unimpressive,ineffective and 95 per cent unnecessary.More so,the uncountable medical appointments to doctors’ consulting rooms for reasonable solution to their common disturbing pain in the back have been waste of valuable time.

The economic cost to the sufferer runs into huge sums of money but the cost of human discomfort,distress and suffering cannot be calculated in monetary terms.Indeed,I listen to stories and look with disgust,how most people spend foreign exchange just to get solution to their disturbing back pain overseas.Many have had open back surgery to remove the distorted disc in the spinal column,replace it or fuse the adjoining vertebrae,and so on and so forth.In actual fact most back pain are treated without surgery.Surgery helps more than its hurts but some surgeries reduce only some of the patient’s symptoms and other surgeries are completely unsuccessful.

A labour-intensive measure carried out by a skilled physiotherapist will surely put the existing pain in the back,to rest.A sublime physiotherapy for back pain provides supplementary as well as complementary treatment to a doctor’s therapy.Patients of common back pain often must be released from the hospital before they are “completely cured” because of shortage in hospital beds and the necessity of keeping cost down.

More so,it is of utmost importance that the physician in charge refers the patient to a competent physiotherapy center were the physiotherapist would use needed modalities present in his outfit to eliminate the pain and restore the back function.The referral system is very necessary so as to put a check on any deformity that might be developing as result of disabling back pain.Take care of your BACK and it will last a life time.

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