Lower Back Pain

As a fellow patient myself, I can attest to the fact that my pain was unimaginably and indescribably torturous to endure. The agony controlled my life, my abilities, my functionality, my attitude, my hopes for the future and my views of the past. For me, and millions like me, back pain became the most influential force in life.

I learned the very definition of misery in dealing with my lower back pain for decades now. My successes and failures in treatment have taught me much, but I would trade all this knowledge for a bit of lasting relief! My symptoms brought me to the breaking point and tested my resolve to survive more than anything else I ever endured. I will never forget the horror and helplessness of the most acute attacks and know exactly how all of you feel as you are reading this trying to cope with your own personal hell.

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Lower Back Pain Facts

The degenerative processes are typically found here in their most noticeable forms, including disc desiccation, osteoarthritis and a variety of bulging or herniated disc pathologies. Luckily, the lumbar spine is built for such abuse and research shows that degeneration here is completely normal and does not correlate to the incidence of lower back pain. This comes as a real shock to most patients!

Some patients do suffer with purely anatomically-motivated pain in the lower back. This usually comes from some manner of significant injury, but may also be the result of extreme degenerative processes in less common circumstances.

However, patients are warned that just because they have some abnormality discovered in their lumbar spines, this does not in any way guarantee that the irregularity might cause or even contribute to any symptoms. In fact, recent alterations to diagnostic guidelines in the orthopedic sector have cautioned doctors NOT to assume that ANY of the typical spinal abnormalities found on diagnostic imaging are the source of chronic pain. This is certainly a big step forward in an often backwards medical industry.

Lower Back Pain History

It has been said by many philosophers and religious leaders that life here on Earth is actually our trial, our hell. There is a promise of paradise in the next life, since all of our suffering is done here in this physical existence. I spent many hours pondering this idea since back pain seemed like such a cruel and inhumane punishment to endure. I wonder if these innovators of thought and doctrine also suffered from horrific back pain.

Lower Back Pain Treatments

Medicine has developed hundreds of diagnoses and thousands of treatments for a variety of suspected problematic conditions. It is ironic that the more medicine has claimed a better understanding of why chronic back pain occurs, the more patients have begun to experience symptoms. Every year, more patients develop lumbar back pain and enter long-term treatment programs than are ever cured of their painful symptoms. There are simply far more patients that continue to suffer than there are patients who EVER fully recover. This is an unacceptable statistic. It is also an incredibly frightening fact for the countless patients who are struck down with severe pain and hope so desperately for some relief.

If medical science is so sure of the physical reasons for back pain, how come they can do so little to cure it? How come they can barely control the symptoms using powerful pain management drugs and allow the underlying cause to remain untreated? How come back pain has become an epidemic condition with no sign of slowing down or ending?

Mindbody Lower Back Pain

Back pain replaced stomach ulcers as the most common psychogenic pain expression. Prior to that existed rheumatism and hysteria. What will take over for back pain? Who knows, but it WILL happen, unless medical science learns to think outside the box when it comes to the subconscious mind and its power over the physical body. Medicine needs to stop equating the mindbody connection to one pain syndrome at a time and realize that the mind and body work hand in hand in all things human. Once this is an accepted part of medical training for new physicians, then and only then will the epidemic of mindbody conditions finally cease.

Of course, this is not to say that low back pain can not be sourced by completely physical structural issues, since it certainly can! However, in these cases, diagnosis is usually correct, treatment is usually successful and the patient can recover without impediment. Does this describe the average case of lumbar pain that you know of or might even suffer from yourself?

Recommendation for Lower Back Pain

The time for a paradigm shift in the attitude of physical medicine has arrived. The future of medical science lies in eliminating antiquated myths and therapy approaches from the back care sector. The future will also hopefully feature less symptomatic treatment money-making and more emphasis on providing cures. In a perfect world, the future will not be filled with the side effects of dangerous drugs and unnecessary surgical nightmares.

Unfortunately, in the present, we continue to hope, to wish, to SUFFER.