Back Pain is a Serious and Big Business

Back pain is a serious business because it is vexing. Many back sufferers really are suffering a great deal. Their pain is severe, sometimes distracting and often disabling. The pain shoots down their legs from the low back via the buttocks or from the neck down the arms. The neck pain can in at least one sense be even worse than the mid back or low back pain being so close to the head, makes it a very personal pain. Like headache, it is hard if not impossible to ignore and too can be disabling.

If you have back pain, you may have had to stop playing your favorite sport. If your back pain is bad enough you may not be able to walk. Either neck pain, mid back pain or low back pain can keep you from work.

Back pain is a serious business. About 80 percent of the adult population will suffer from back pain their life time and almost 50 percent of all people will abandon active work due to excruciating pain in the low back, neck or mid back. They must live with occasional or constant pain resulting from their disabled back.

Agonizing back pain has affected the social and even sexual life of some people. Excruciating back pain has rendered many people bedridden. Disabling back pain has restricted a lot of people’s activities, reduce their work capacity and diminish the quality of enjoyment of everyday living.

Do you know that devastating back pain has made some people to think of suicide just to escape the agonizing pain on their back and probably the neck too?

Despite the magnitude of the problem, most victims do not get adequate and cost effective treatment for their back pain. They continue to suffer month after month, year after year because they have been irrational in the choice of health facility where they can go and get effective and dramatic relief of their disturbing back pain and its symptoms.

They have paid the price of their negligence and ignorance in years of pain and uncountable number of medical appointments at some health establishment; 95 percent of which were unnecessary and therefore a waste of valuable time.

The effects of pills on back pain whether neck pain, low back pain or mid back pain has either remained transient or none at all. In my observation, common back pain appears to be a great challenge to medical science and for centuries as it has remained elusive.

In 400 B.C, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine strung up a patient with ropes and pulleys to treat his back pain when all medical approaches failed. Nowadays, resort to surgery is increasingly becoming the current approach by the medical community. Though aware of the fact that back pain is of a physical component and, therefore, physical approach like physiotherapy, skillfully performed is a preferred panacea.

A therapist equipped with sublime knowledge of anatomy and bio-mechanics of the human back, coupled with appropriate physiotherapy modalities and adjuncts, would abolish pain or dramatically reduce the pain within minutes.

A chronic back pain be it low back pain, mid back pain or neck pain will not likely respond well to anyhow physiotherapy. You may have had surgery for your back. Even though you went to a qualified surgeon, the surgery may well have failed to correct your problem. At certain time you may have been told that you have arthritis in the back and will just have to live with it.

That is to say, your pain is incurable. Fortunately, this is scarcely true. Others are advised to treat themselves as semi-invalids. While it may be true that your back has worn somewhat with ageing or as a result of an event, it certainly is not true that you will just have to live with it.

It has been found that many people who have spinal joints that are worn with age have never had back pain and we now know that the wear is not, by itself, a cause of pain. Back pain has cost many individuals and companies thousands of dollars i.e yearly in everything from medical expense to days of absence from work.

Some victims visit orthopedic surgeons for appointments where the chief beneficiary is the doctor who may bill outrageous amount. In return, drugs are prescribed which in some cases gives transient relief or none at all. An apology!

 
Sometime, surgery is successful, sometime it is not! Surgery of the back (Neck, mid back and Low back) is costly and requires recovery period of several months during which time most patients can not go to work. Most surgery helps more than it hurts but some surgeries reduce only some of the patient’s pain, and other surgeries are completely unsuccessful. Range of motion is reduced and pain is not.