Is chronic lower back pain really chronic?

When we speak of “chronic lower back pains”, we must remember that chronic pains were always once acute or smaller than they now appear. It is more likely that a small injury was not given attention to, or was not treated correctly, which lead to increase in its intensity and effect over you. When an injury is not treated properly, the nerves in that particular become hyper sensitized.

There are two types of back pains:

Radicular: this kind of pain is directly connected to the spinal nerve.
Mechanical: results from abnormal and unusual amount of stress and movement laid upon the back muscles. This is also referred to as induced pain or relief in the back. Many people argue that the term is vague and is not scientifically correct. Mechanical pain is just musculoskeletal and should called that only.

Chronic lower back pains can be explained with a different perspective. Some doctor’s ague that chronic pain is a psychological effect caused when there is actual damage to a tissue and the nerves start sending continuous signals to the brain that there has been some sort of damage. These signals do not entirely stop even after the tissue damage has actually been healed.

Doctors also suggest that these chronic lower back pains management becomes impossible with some patients because of this unstoppable firing of nerve signals sent to the brain. Because these signals are continued, the sense of pain in the lower back area remains even after multiple sessions of therapy and other methods of lower back pain treatment. There are certain characteristic associated with such patients, including the following:

Unhealthy diet: The most important reason believed to be is the unhealthy diet. This mostly includes diet that consists of high amounts of junk food, bad carbs and fattening food.
Unhealthy, irregular sleeping pattern: People with irregular sleeping patterns or those who sleep too little or too much are more prone to developing chronic lower back pain. They are also more likely to be the “non-responders”, meaning that they have no effect of the treatment and care they get from their doctor.
Inactive physically: Physical inactivity, or a lifestyle where you spend most of your time seated in one place is again a major cause behind chronic lower back pains. Our lifestyle nowadays has mostly become this, where even our jobs and studies require us to sit in front of a computer seat for hours.

Even for experts and doctors, it can be a challenge to identify a patient’s conditions truly chronic or just effected by the mental processes. However, doctors highly suggest that as soon as you identify any symptoms of tissue damage in your lower back, or get in any injury, you should not wait to consult a specialist. As mentioned earlier, the biggest reason behind “chronic” lower back pain is that patients do not take care or notice their injuries, and never really report to the doctors.

You should not identify yourself as the “non-responder” patient by yourself, and rather consult a doctor and let them come up with a conclusion about your condition.