FACTS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT BACK PAIN

Excruciating back pain can be a night-mare.Prolonged pain in the back{neck,mid-back or waist} can be an agony to its victim. Disabling back pain can be annoying and distracting.Unfortunately there is no quick fix for back pain medically,its elusiveness to medical solution for many decades has been a puzzle.

Be careful how you use your back,for it is the power-house for the entire body supporting your trunk and making the movements of the head,hands and legs possible.Any serious problem with the back can result in unimaginable consequences.

Most funny and distressful feelings in the hands and legs are as a result of problems in the neck or waist.So it is always important to think BACK before you act in most activities you engage yourself doing.Don’t use your back as crane to lift heavy loads,carrying loads from deep car boots has caused uncountable back pain problems to many people.

Agonizing back pain{neck pain,mid-back pain and waist pain} can restrict your daily activity,reduce your work capacity and diminish your quality of enjoyment of everyday living.To be frank,the social and business lives of most people have been restricted drastically.

Most people who are back pain sufferers,may have either had their business commitments reduced or completely stopped.To some their social engagements may either have been brought to a gradual stop or even to an abrupt stop.To these victims of chronic back pain,attending social gathering such as church meetings,mosque,weddings,official meetings,parties,etc may have diminished.Many people,especially those in their middle ages have lost their sex life to this monster-back pain.The list is endless.

Preventive measures for back pain are more cost-effective and it works.Always think back whenever you are engage in any type of activity learn the correct body mechanics of lifting loads,carrying objects,pushing vehicles and even in activities involving conjugal obligation among couples.To take proactive measures against back pain are cheaper in terms of cost and convenient comfortable.

Drug or curative measures are unreliable and expensive.Thousands of people who are victims of common back pain can attest to the fact that the drugs and medicines prescribed for them have been unimpressive,ineffective and 95 per cent unnecessary.More so,the uncountable medical appointments to doctors’ consulting rooms for reasonable solution to their common disturbing pain in the back have been waste of valuable time.

The economic cost to the sufferer runs into huge sums of money but the cost of human discomfort,distress and suffering cannot be calculated in monetary terms.Indeed,I listen to stories and look with disgust,how most people spend foreign exchange just to get solution to their disturbing back pain overseas.Many have had open back surgery to remove the distorted disc in the spinal column,replace it or fuse the adjoining vertebrae,and so on and so forth.In actual fact most back pain are treated without surgery.Surgery helps more than its hurts but some surgeries reduce only some of the patient’s symptoms and other surgeries are completely unsuccessful.

A labour-intensive measure carried out by a skilled physiotherapist will surely put the existing pain in the back,to rest.A sublime physiotherapy for back pain provides supplementary as well as complementary treatment to a doctor’s therapy.Patients of common back pain often must be released from the hospital before they are “completely cured” because of shortage in hospital beds and the necessity of keeping cost down.

More so,it is of utmost importance that the physician in charge refers the patient to a competent physiotherapy center were the physiotherapist would use needed modalities present in his outfit to eliminate the pain and restore the back function.The referral system is very necessary so as to put a check on any deformity that might be developing as result of disabling back pain.Take care of your BACK and it will last a life time.

WHAT LOWER BACK PAIN CAN DO TO YOUR SEX LIFE

A well known cause of pain in the case of common back pain{especially waist pain and neck pain} resulting from physical exhaustion,is marathon sex which is involves excessive spine movement.For those not used to a ride on such a trip could as well lead to pain after the wearing out of the euphoric pleasure of the encounter.Sex is like any other physical exercise,a wrong approach to it lead to agonizing pain in the back{especially the waist} and it is believed to be one of the major causes of contracting waist pain.

On the other hand,if you have existing pain in the back,it will surely impact on your relationship.This is a problem people don’t really discuss.The reason for this attitude is multiple,people who are suffering it feel that they may be the only ones having this problem and therefore are embarrassed to talk about it,even with the physician or therapist.

Some doctors don’t feel comfortable with the subject or may not even recognize it as a problem,yet the victims of such defect are going through emotional and most importantly the physical trauma.
A patient’s lack of knowledge about his illness leads to doubts about himself,his strength and destroys his trust in the functional ability of his own organism.

This might impede co-operation between the physician or physiotherapist.Be careful how you use your back during sexual encounter,the back is a big and compact organ having nerves,blood-vessels,ligaments,muscles protecting the delicate spinal column that houses the spinal cord.Any serious injury to the back structures can cause unimaginable consequences,not only to the immediate structures of the back but also to other vital organs such as the erectile structures in the private part can be rendered terribly ineffective and will be in dare state of inactivity because of disabling back pain.

 Back pain {especially the waist} can restrict your activity,reduce your work capacity and even interfere with effective performance of your sexual functioning.

Back pain,you know can disrupt your sexual relationship.Sex is an essential part of the intimacy between couples and attitudes about sex,rejection and our self-image when one just don’t feel up to a sexual encounter can haunt us for a long time.Sex is supposed to be enjoyed for both couples and the fear of hurting yourself or your partner inhibits the spontaneous joy that you probably felt before your back pain developed.To over simplify the problem,there are basically two components of sexual functioning,all two must be in working order for things to function normally.

First and foremost are the emotional and psychological aspects of sexuality.If you are depressed,angry,frustrated,preoccupied or uninterested,you are unlikely to enjoy a sexual experience.This emotional or psychological also relates to how it feels to you and includes attitudes such as fear.For example,the fear that the pain will worsen or last for ever,fear about what it means to be chronically disabled and fear about what you believe your partner thinks about your pain and how you are coping with your condition.

As couples,it is needful to discuss frankly about your pain limit and sexual expectations.It is a mistake to believe your partner understands what you feel,it is your responsibility to communicate those limits as clearly as possible;it is your partner’s responsibility to listen and try to understand and probably proffer suggestions that may help to mitigate the challenge.Pain is invisible and subjective,this means your pain is unique to you.People have described their pain as chronic sensations located in the waist and later traveling down the legs via the buttocks,some have described their pain as a dull annoying ache,located in the neck,spreading to the shoulders and hands with tingling sensations and numbness,a good number of people have described their back pain as continuous pain{that means the pain is always there}whether you are eating,driving,walking,lying down on the bed and so on,others describe theirs as a sharp or stabbing pain as if a needle or very sharp object is driven into their back.

Appreciable percentage describes their pain as referred pain.That is the pain is located some where in the back and its effect are felt in another part of the body or organ.Take,for instance,a located pain in the neck spreading to the shoulders and the hands or from the mid-back it spreads to the ribs and underneath the breasts, or a located pain in the waist spreading to the buttocks,thigh and probably the leg with abnormal sensation{numbness and tingling sensations}.This article is not meant to be an in-depth examination of the psychological aspects of sexuality.If you are experiencing any of the above and are not able to resolve them with your partner,discuss it with your physician or seek help from a psychiatrist or psychologist.Most problems are successfully and rapidly resolved.

The second key components of sexuality are physiological and anatomical{physical}ones.These refer to your muscular-skeletal structures,if they are not working properly you will not be able to function normally.This is not to say that you will not be able to enjoy sex but that it will be different.For example,men with spinal cord injuries are not able to obtain and maintain erections without assistance,yet they are able to have intercourse and achieve orgasm.

The nerve connections or wiring must be intact from the brain to the sexual organs and they must get an adequate blood supply in order for things to proceed “normally”.This physical aspect is the actual stimulation of the nerve,similar to toothache or a slipped disc pressing on a nerve root and often times with corresponding weakness or paralysis of an organ,that the nerve root innervates,it could be the nerve root to your sex organ and with the pressure  on the nerve root,there could possibly be disruption of impulses to the erectile organ,rendering it weak or flaccid during sexual encounter.

 You see,you can have a good desire for sex but your organ doesn’t get erection.If your penis as a man does not become erect for you to have normal sex,it means the individual is impotent or suffering from erectile dysfunction.This similar condition can also happen to the erectile organ of the female victim who has disabling waist pain too,invariably affecting her sexuality.Without the nerves you cannot have erection.You have to be stimulated for you to have erection,it could also affect blood vessels and if it does,that can lead to impotence.Impotence is a vascular phenomenon assisted by the nervous system.

There are very large number of medical conditions that can affect sexuality,these include;diabetes,heart disease,prostrates,vascular disease and the pain from compression of a nerve in the back.If you have the desire and are free of pain,yet are not able to function then you should be thoroughly examined by a physician to look for a medical source.

LOWER BACK PAIN AND PREGNANCY

pain in the back is very common among pregnant women.These pregnant women go through a frustrating and agonizing pain for whole nine months or less and this is what result into general weakness which makes most pregnant women to be some what “aggressive”.

On the other hand,some pregnant women unlike their fellow counterpart go through a  jolly first six months without complaints after which they face the real “horror” of pregnancy.

Do not get me wrong,am not saying pregnancy is not good or getting pregnant is a cause.NO!!! infact it is the best thing that would ever happen to “man”.

Seeing an offspring coming in between your legs that looks like you is a mystery only God understands,procreation is ordained by God.

Most  pregnant women are faced with the challenge of lower back pain which is also called waist pain.

The reason for this waist pain is because these women carry excess load in front of them{pregnancy},this throws their back into an uncomfortable hollow shape,causing changes in the normal curve of the spine and placing strain on the muscles and ligaments of the lower back.

Furthermore,weakness in the body which is a similar symptoms of pregnant women can also lead to poor posture which later leads to back pain.

Moreso,pressure of the foetus on the lumbar vertebrae nerves could also contribute to lower back pain.Another likely reason for back pain during pregnancy is that the body releases hormones{substances in the body which stimulates tissues into action} which softens the ligaments,particularly those that connects the bone of the pelvis{hip bone} and lower back{the waist}.

This softening allows movement to occur at the joints when normally there is hardly movement between these joints.This movements may give rise to back pain.

Lastly,for all you pregnant folks out there i suggest you exercise regularly every morning.Exercise like walking around the compound for 5-10 minutes is okay,do not over do it and go for some massaging as well{very important}.Also watch what you eat because obesity may also be connected with back pain.