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Back Muscle Tension
Back muscle tension can be caused by purely physical
injury
or overexertion, but is often the direct result of internal stress, unresolved psychological issues and painful emotions. Tension describes the feeling of being taut, strained or stretched to the limit.
The back
is a place where we both literally and figuratively carry all the burdens of life. When the
back muscles
are chronically tense, there is almost always some underlying emotional process as the direct cause or major contributor. It is vital to understand that the mindbody process ensures that the mental and physical components will always be linked together in functionality. If one aspect is stressed, the other will suffer. This article will help to shed light on both physical and psychoemotional causes of internalized muscular tension.
Physical Back Muscle Tension
Muscles can become tight due to a strain,
sprain
or other injury.
Back muscle pain
can be very severe, even when the condition is not serious. Tension without pain is often the result of overexertion of the back muscles. This is a condition which should go away after a good night of sleep.
Tense back muscles
should respond well to simple physical treatments, such as
heat,
massage
and
hydrotherapy.
If your muscle pain endures despite all attempts to relieve it, you might want to consider that your pain is actually from a psychological source. This should be of no concern, since emotional tension in the body is inherent to the human condition. However, people do not universally recognize or acknowledge their emotional sources of this tight, uncomfortable feeling and this is where their trouble truly begins...
Psychological Back Tension
Chronic muscle tension is a common expression of
psychosomatic back pain.
Patients with this condition will often progress towards worse symptomatic expressions of this mindbody condition. Psychological back symptoms is one of the most common of all
chronic back pain
syndromes. It is also the least likely to be accurately diagnosed. Most psychosomatic conditions are blamed on some coincidental and completely innocent
back pain scapegoat
condition. Physical treatments are useless against this type of psychogenic pain, which explains the medical community's dismal results when it comes to successfully curing mindbody back ache.
Knowledge therapy
may be worth exploring for any unresponsive and
unresolved back pain
condition.
Recommendation on Back Muscle Tension
That feeling of holding the weight of the world on your back is much more than a metaphor. It is extremely common for patients to experience
stress related back pain
and muscle tension from internal psychological conflicts. The source of these conflicts can be obvious, but is more likely well hidden deep in the subconscious mind. Problematic issues need to be acknowledged and accepted in order to enact a real cure for the psychogenic syndrome. This might sound like science fiction to some patients, but it is verified and accepted fact based on the complex interaction between the
mind and the body.
The main question is…
Who will accept that their
chronic muscle pain
may be a result of a psychological process and who will continue to suffer needlessly?This is surely not to infer that all chronic muscle tension is psychosomatic. This would be an incredibly foolish statement! However, physical expressions of muscle tightness almost always respond well to the previously mentioned simple treatments, since tension based on minor injury or overexertion will resolve on its own. All it takes is time and patience.
Back Muscle Tension to Back Pain
11/30/07 Revised 12/8/11
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THIS ARTICLE BY:
Sensei Adam Rostocki
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