Back Injuries and Pain

Do you suffer from back problems? Most people have back problems at some point in their lives, sending them on a healing journey - the metaphor here being Life is Burden. Back pain can affect everything you do. Back problems go to muscles, nerves, bones, joints, discs and cartilage - up and down the body. The quest for relief, and possible cure - is endless - from medical professionals to holistic practitioners. Chiropractic medicine mixed with other holistic venues can have a positive and then again - a negative effect.

Sacroiliac Joint, Back Problems


Also popular are self-help methods such as stretching, or alternative therapies such as acupuncture, chakra balancing, yoga, pain management are often effective.

Back injuries can be short term from lifting something the wrong way, sleeping on a bad mattress - or they can be permanent, as the result of genetic disorders and injuries. In the short term, something as simple as a pain killer such as Aleve, will work.

Back injuries often become arthritic so do be carefully when inflicting pain on yourself to get our of doing something you don't want to do.

Painful back injuries affect everything as all is connected up through the back, neck and head areas. As we get older - discs deteriorate along with the cartilage between them.

As you are sitting there now, take a deep breath,

relax, and focus on your back. How does it feel?

Metaphysically ... back pain represents burdens that need to be overcome
especially now when souls are seeking freedom and the returning to light.

Psychologically ... a bad back generally means the person needs to let go of something from their past or 'back story' which at the very worse immobilizes them. These is often associated with fear and depression. This also goes to physical weight. Stress management can help. Finding the cause of pain on all levels - physical, emotional and spiritual, is the way to go. You can't move forward until you stop looking 'back'.

Back Pain and Injuries





Back injuries result from damage, wear, or trauma to the bones, muscles, or other tissues of the back. Common back injuries include sprains and strains, herniated disks, and fractured vertebrae. The lumbar is often the site of back pain. The area is susceptible because of its flexibility and the amount of body weight it regularly bears. It is estimated that low-back pain may affect as much as 50 to 70 percent of the general population in the United States.


In the News ...

Back ache has been a pain for millions of years   PhysOrg - February 24, 2011

Research by a Cambridge archaeologist shows that back pain caused untold misery long before we started staring into screens and slumping on sofas. The high incidence of back pain apparent today is often blamed on our lazy lifestyles: we sit at computers, watch television, travel by car and eat too much. But debilitating back ache is nothing new: it dates back millions of years to an era long before screens and sofas, according to a Cambridge University researcher who is looking at the fossil record of human bones.