Chronic Back Pain Causes

Chronic back pain causes are often misunderstood by both doctors and patients alike. Back pain can be the result of many processes, but most often heals on its own or with proper treatment. Chronic pain conditions are a completely different matter. These long lasting and recurrent symptoms go on and on for months, years or even whole lifetimes. Chronic back pain is a nightmare to endure and can turn life into a perpetual cycle of misery, frustration, disappointment and suffering.

Chronic Back Pain Causes / Physical

There are some physical reasons for long term back pain to occur. Severe injuries can leave substantial damage in their wake. Sometimes, the damage is too severe to fully repair. These conditions are rare, but they do occur. If this is your reality, my heart goes out to you. Never give up. There are new technologies developing daily that might be the answer to your pain question.

Certain degenerative processes and diseases can also set the stage for chronic pain to exist. Once again, these circumstances are rare and do not account for more than a small percentage of all patients with chronic back pain.

Structurally induced pain responds well to appropriate physical treatment. Maybe one back pain treatment might work better than another, but within a few tries, the care provider should be able to cure your physical pain successfully. If this is not your reality, then your pain is most likely not physically induced�

Chronic Back Pain Causes / Psychosomatic

* Medicine is a trusted science. If doctors tell us that our pain is due to (fill in your diagnosis), we tend to believe them. After all, they are doctors�

* Psychosomatic back pain carries a heavy stigma and is greatly misunderstood. Most people associate psychological phenomenon with mental problems and personality disorders. The reality is exactly the opposite. Psychosomatic pain is universal with the only variable factors being severity, location and duration of the symptoms.

* Patients do not take time to learn or question. They follow blindly like sheep to the slaughter. It is crucial to learn why the clinical picture of your pain often does not correspond to the symptoms expected from your diagnosis.

* Insurance companies, and society in general, think of physical problems as a normal part of life, while psychological conditions are considered abnormal, unacceptable and most of all, denied for coverage, compassion or treatment.

Like it or not, most long term pain syndromes ARE the direct result of a psychological process. The mind can create the pain, perpetuate the pain, or end the pain. I have seen this occur countless times, including all three in my own chronic lumbar back pain experience.

Recommendation on Chronic Back Pain Causes

Yes, you injured your back. Yes, it hurt. Yes, it got better. Somehow the pain remains even though the injury has healed. The injury acted as a trigger for the psychosomatic pain to begin. However, no one told you the truth of this scenario.

Yes, you have a (insert diagnosis here�for example herniated disc, arthritis, etc). Yes, it leaves anatomical evidence that it exists. No, it does not cause pain. It is normal. We all have these abnormalities to one degree or another. No one told you the truth of this scenario.

Yes, your pain has been blamed on (insert diagnosis here). Yes, you tried all the treatments with no success. Yes, you still have pain. You continue to try more treatments and are ready to have back surgery to finally fix your failing spine. However, your spine is normal. No one ever told you the truth of this scenario.

These are the most common chronic back pain causes. You have been led down the wrong path and are now having a hard time turning around to go the right way. It is not your fault. You can still find relief. Learn the facts for yourself. Apply those facts to your own pain condition. I am sure you will finally see through the smoke and mirrors used by many in the back pain industry to perpetuate treatment. You can be pain free. All you have to do is stop believing the myths and start learning the truth.

Chronic Back Pain Causes to Lower Back Pain Home page 6/18/07 Revised 5/20/08