The Cause of Disc and Back Pain

Determining the cause of disc and back pain can be a difficult thing to determine. We used to believe that the most common cause of disc and back pain was trauma – a person has an injury, or lifts something heavy, etc., and the pain begins.

With more research, we’re actually finding out that this isn’t really the case. Although many people can identify some form of trauma that occurred when the pain began, we’re discovering that back problems actually begin much earlier in life.

In fact, back problems usually develop for years before a person ever feels a pain. So, how can this be? After all, we’ve all been raised to believe that the body is healthy unless pain exists, isn’t that the truth?

Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this isn’t completely true. In fact, the major causes of death (cancer and heart disease) are perfect examples of this – both of these diseases begin to develop long before a person ever feels a symptom. It’s the same way with the back.

People feel pain because of chemicals that are released in the body when there’s something wrong. The back is not as sensitive to these chemicals, so there has to be a certain amount of damage present to cause enough chemicals to be released that a person would actually experience pain. The problem is that the back is so insensitive to these chemicals, that the problem has usually been developing for a very long time by the time you feel pain.

With that said, what does cause disc and back pain? Well, trauma is a major cause, but it’s usually traumas that occur in childhood that begin the process of spinal problems developing. Stress is also a major cause – stress causes muscle spasms, which causes misalignments of the spine. These misalignments cause the spine to wear out prematurely and result in problems.

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