This could be the cause of your back pain. Something everyone needs to know.

Lower back pain One of the most common types of pain and, in addition, it is the most common reason for going to doctors. Eighty percent of people by the age of 30 begin to feel low back pain.

Pain in the lumbar back can have a different nature and be the result of a variety of disorders. The pain can be acute, aching, stabbing, dull, burning, and can either be localized in one. spinal-pointOr spread from the lumbar to the entire back or leg. The pain may appear suddenly, or it may occur almost imperceptibly and gradually increase.

Lower back pain



There are 3 types of back pain
  1. Sharp.
    It doesn't last more than 3 months. This is the most common type of lumbar pain, and you can get rid of it with home treatment for 4-6 weeks.
  2. Recurrent
    This is when periods of acute lower back pain recur.
  3. chronic
    If acute low back pain does not go away after three months, it becomes chronic.


Causes of low back pain
  1. Injuries, sprains, excessive loads, displacement of the vertebrae (spondylolisthesis, spondylolysis).
  2. Compression fracture of the spine caused by osteoporosis, arthritis, congenital problems or diseases of the spine.
  3. Squeezing the roots of the nerves of the spinal cord, intervertebral hernia, displacement of the vertebrae, spinal stenosis, osteochondrosis (can cause degenerative processes in the spine).
  4. Vertebral fractures.
  5. Various deformities of the spine (kyphosis, scoliosis, lordosis).
  6. Suppurative processes that develop in persons with epithelial coccyx course.


  7. Aging (skin and muscles lose their elasticity, which increases the risk of injury, and the vertebrae wear out and cease to function as shock absorbers between the bones).
  8. Pregnancy.


Risk factors (who is most susceptible to low back pain)
  1. People with any curvature of the spine.
  2. Anyone who spends a lot of time sitting down.
  3. People with weak muscle-ligamentous apparatus.
  4. Suffering from obesity, smokers and persons who abuse alcohol.


In any case, self-diagnosis of back pain is not a good thing. If discomfort or pain does not go away for 2-3 days, this is a sure signal that it is time to see a doctor who will be able to correctly diagnose the cause of the pain and prescribe the right treatment!

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