What Is Causing Your Lower Back Pain?
Most low back pain originates from mechanical failures involving the discs, bones, vertebrae and joints composing the spine. Examples of strictly mechanical issues causing acute and chronic back pain are:
Strains and Sprains
Tearing or overstretching back ligaments produce sprains while tears in muscles or tendons cause strains. Both happen when you lift or twist your back improperly, pick up something heavy or exercise too vigorously.
Herniated Discs
When spongy pads of tissue called intervertebral discs are severely compressed, they bulge outward from between vertebrae and irritate sensitive spinal nerves, producing chronic low back pain.
Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
When discs weaken, thin out and lose their ability to prevent vertebrae from scraping against each other, IDD may be diagnosed that is commonly attributed to aging.
Sciatica
Your sciatic nerve extends from the buttocks down the back of your leg. Compression of this nerve produces painful, burning sensations in the lower back and shooting pains in the leg. The primary cause of a pinched sciatic nerve is a herniated disc.
Radiculopathy
When the spinal nerve root is inflamed or compressed by an injury, your lower back often suffers pain, numbness and a tingling or burning sensation that can radiate to the legs, feet and sometimes the shoulders. Reasons for the development of radiculopathy include herniated disc and spinal stenosis.
Spondylolisthesis
This lumber condition occurs when lower spine vertebrae slip out of place and pinch nerves leaving the spinal column.
Chiropractic Treatments for Relief of Lower Back Pain
Chiropractors ease low back pain without medications or surgery by employing spinal manipulations and adjustments on patients suffering lumbar mechanical failures. By using their hands to exact specific movements across the low back area while massaging and stimulating the spine and associated tissues, chiropractors can move vertebrae back into their proper positions to minimize nerve compression while also reducing symptoms of bulging discs.
Spinal decompression therapy is another effective, noninvasive treatment to relieve low back pain. To find out more about SDT and other chiropractic techniques designed to eliminate back pain, call our clinic to schedule an appointment with Dr. Golinsky today.