Chronic Back Muscle Pain
Chronic back muscle pain is an extremely common patient complaint which can be very difficult to accurately diagnose and effectively treat. Most
back muscle pain
is due to minor
back injury
or simple overexertion.
Back muscle strains
and
sprains
are common, but usually get better without any treatment in a few days to a few weeks. Chronic muscular pain is a completely different story, with patients enduring months, years or even decades of agonizing torture…Muscular pain syndromes are among the most prevalent in the anatomy. They can affect virtually any particular region of the body or may be widespread, such as in the case of fibromyalgia. Medical science is generally preoccupied with linking these mysterious muscular symptoms with anatomical abnormalities, often in the joints or spine. This unenlightened practice is directly responsible for the horrible treatment results demonstrated for most of these idiopathic pain conditions. Chronic Back Muscle Pain DiagnosisFibromyalgia is sometimes pronounced, but the medical treatment of this condition remains among the worst and most ineffectual in the entire healthcare field. Thoracic outlet syndrome is a common diagnosis in the upper back and shoulders, although the exact definition of this condition remains somewhat vague and treatment is poorly conceived, at best. Sometimes, the doctor just does not know what is wrong and this can be a real blessing in disguise… At least the symptoms will not be mistakenly attributed to some innocent irregularity in the spine, as is the rule rather than the exception. Chronic Back Muscle Pain CausesWhile injury can create lasting muscle pain, it is very rare. The soft tissues should all heal with proper time and treatment, unless some abnormal condition, like extensive scar tissue formation, exists. Muscle imbalances and the like can also occur, but are grossly over diagnosed and are seldom the real reason for lasting severe symptoms. In most diagnosed cases I have seen, there is simply no evidence at all of an imbalance. One of the most prevalent sources of chronic muscular discomfort, which defies accurate diagnosis, is definitely ischemia. This oxygen deprivation syndrome is truly sinister, enacting symptoms without warning and leaving virtually no evidence of the true cause of pain.Ischemia is rarely identified by the medical industry as being a major contributor to the current
back pain epidemic
swamping the healthcare community with both the diversity of complaints and the shear number of affected souls. This is surely no coincidence, since the root cause of most oxygen deprivation is a
psychosomatic
process which flies in the face of convention Cartesian medical thought. Also not coincidentally is the lack of profit to be had treating mindbody ischemia within the medical sector… Chronic Back Muscle Pain AdviceIf you have endured the continual wrong diagnoses or the simple... “Sorry, but we really do not know why you still have pain” excuses, there is still hope. In order to beat the symptoms, you must first know where they are originating and what process is generating them. This is more difficult than it first sounds...Muscular pain without definitive underlying causative process is an enigma. Doctors will look for ANYTHING on which to blame the pain, often illogically from a symptomatic viewpoint as well as a causative viewpoint. Do not fall into this trap. If you are diagnosed with a particular condition, be sure to thoroughly understand the theory and research it on your own. Not doing so is like willingly accepting a mistake that may cost you time, functionality or your very life. Do not forget… If a mistaken causation is accepted, you might be on the fast track towards dangerous and unneeded treatments, including possible back surgery. Don’t let misdiagnosis happen to you. If the diagnosis makes sense, then trust in your care provider and hope that you will defy the odds of back pain treatment and actually find that elusive concept of lasting relief. Chronic Back Muscle Pain to Back Pain 3/23/09 Revised 12/8/11 |
Sensei Adam Rostocki
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