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About 70-80% of people are suffering from this physical complaint known as back pain. Spinal cord is very essential for sitting, standing and walking and these areas are very sensitive to pain. A slight pressure in the spinal nerves can cause a huge amount of pain in the back. Back pain is basically a pain which can be experienced in the upper middle or lower back of our body. This back pain will also reflect more to the hips and legs. Back pain can be occurred if any of the bones, nerves, muscles or joints has even a slightest of problem.

Types of Back pain

These are the types of back pain,

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Acute type of Pain -This will have some effect on the back for less than 90 days and then disappears if the person gives proper rest to the back. It can cause due to heavy lifting which in turn causes strain on the back.

Herniated Disc : This occurs mostly in the lumber region of the spine, this happens because the lumber region of spine takes most of the body weight, when age goes by after 30, the water content of the nucleus start to decrease then there is a chance of this problem to arise between the age of 30 to 50.

Sciatica - This kind of pain will usually caused due to weakness or lack of sensation, it’s a form of peripheral neuropathy, sciatica is caused due to the compression or an injury to the sciatica nerve.

Spondylolisthesis: When the vertebra slips forward to another this type of pain is known as spondylolisthesis.

Pregnancy: This is common among pregnant woman who wants to continue their normal activities in spite of being pregnant. This kind of back pain causes when the ligaments are being expanded and it results in lower back pain.

Fibromyalgia: This is caused due to untimely food habits or less eating less nutritional foods and working hard, which in turn causes frequent fatigue which results heavy pain in ligaments, muscles including the back. This kind of pain is normally seen in the woman above the age of 30 to 50.

Intervertebral disc degeneration : When the age goes and also due to the reduction of water content in the nucleus discs in the back start to break down, this process cannot be stopped as you can see more old persons are suffering from back pain.

Osteoarthritis: This is a de-generative joint disease which breaks down of joint cartilage which results in back pain.

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Im Jaiking, a Medical practitioner working in St.Anthony hospital, I like to share my knowledge with others, hope this above article is useful as far as health information.