There are a myriad of reasons one will have lower back pain, including: sprained ligaments, muscle strains, disc herniations, trigger points and inflamed joints.
There is also arthritic pain from joint degeneration which often occurs in our older population.
Some of the major reasons for joint or spine pain are bad posture, excessive load and weight on your spine, living in a stressful state and sporting injuries not taken care of.
Joint misalignments are clinically known as subluxations.
These can occur anywhere in the spine as well as in the extremities.
Subluxations can cause pain, loss of range of motion, degeneration and destruction of local tissues surrounding joint capsules affected by a subluxation.
Did you know many people have disc bulges or disc herniations and aren't aware of it? It's usually during later stages of disc herniations when a person will actually feel pain and consciously be aware something is wrong.
Actually, a study found that nearly half of adults had at least one bulging or herniated disc, even though they did not suffer any back pain from it.
The reason most people feel their herniations are usually due to swelling around the discs which put pressure on the nerves which are in control of signaling pain to your consciousness in you brain.
Stress is the most common cause for an aching back.
When a person is stressed out they will often have poor posture and likely hold themselves in a flexed position.
This stressed out posture is destructive to the joints.
It can be compared to being as damaging as sugar is to the teeth.
Chiropractic treatment for discomfort can alleviate most forms of back pain.
Studies have found chiropractic for the low back has been repeatedly shown to be the most effective treatment for low back pain.
The process of adjusting spinal misalignments can alleviate most forms of back pain described in this article.
Getting checked by your physician can be helpful to help rule in and out what types of back pain you may be experiencing in life.