Back Muscle Tension

Back muscle tension can be caused physical injury or overexertion, but is usually the direct result of internal stress, unresolved 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 tense, there is almost always some underlying emotional process as the cause.

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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.

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 psycho-emotional condition. Psychological back pain is 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 back pain. Knowledge therapy is the recommended treatment for any 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 is a result of a psychological process and who will continue to suffer needlessly?

Back Muscle Tension to Back Pain 11/30/07 Revised 8/10/08