Your Back Pain is More Complex Than You Think

posted in by Admin on January 27th, 2012

A common occurrence with back pain is that people who suffer from it can usually place a finger or point to an area the pain is felt the most intense. While this may point to where, in general, the tissues and nerves are excited more than usual, it is frequent that no actual tissue damage is found.

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So are the nerves simply overly sensitized or is there something that back doctors are missing when examining problems in the spine? Pain from an injured back can radiate far from the apparent location of the problem, even all the way down to the legs.

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Between 1 and 3 percent of people show evidence of bulging discs, but this does not automatically lead to pain. In fact, there are just as many people with a damaged disc who do not have back pain as there are people who do experience problems. This begs the question, is having a damaged disc in the spinal column required at all for lower back pain, or is something else at work?