So how does back pain develop?
Well back pain is either going to develop very quickly or develop very slowly. The quick versions of back pain is going to be a traumatic event, this is going to be our macro trauma so this could be something like a car accident or a slip or fall that is going to cause a quick injury and the large injury to a tissue in your back and therefore causes sudden amount of pain. If this is a case then then the pain that was produce would be on that day. When we contrast this to back pain developing slowly, this is going to be the more trivial smaller injuries to the back. So this can be, for example, sitting at your desk eight hours a day, five days a week that, to day after day, will add up to a larger injury. If this is the case then your back pain has been developing for the weeks months or even years that you've been doing that small activity.
I like to explain it like this:
We have a pain threshold that sits in the middle here and when we're born were hopefully starting at the top at 100% health or 100% percent function. Provided there's no birth trauma then as we go through life we are going through little micro traumas and hopefully then the body can heal and thus we're constantly going like this. However if the ratio between the healing process and the trauma gets out of sync with the trauma dominating, we start to go like this and it's not until we get right to the pain threshold that we are on the edge of creating back pain. So you might pick up a pen and that's when you can start again back pain.
So my job here is to get you not from here to here although that get you out of pain, but to get you from here to here to give you 100% function and that's what we do when we check the spine in correct it.
Presented by Steven Hulme. Doctor Of Chiropractor (Gonstead Practitioner) - Corrective Chiropractic Aylesbury