Back Pain And Its Diagnosis
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: backache, disease, exercise, fitness, health, illness, muscle building, office, other, pain, posture, recreation, Uncategorized, walking, YogaBack pain is an enormous subject in medical terms which makes back pain and its diagnosis very problematic. It is easy to blame your physician for not knowing much concerning your back pain, but the fact is that you are in a better place to understand why you have pain in your back that they do.
This is because pain in your back that is not congenital or due to a precise accident, illness or series of medications is normally due to bad posture and that means lifestyle alterations.
For example, I am overweight and have recently started having back pain. My doctor could see my size and suggested that I lose weight. We all know that that is not going to occur over night and so did he, so he gave me a prescription for 20 tablets a day and his assistant gave me a massage and an jab in the backside.
I waited and waited until the tablets ran out and I was no better. It would have been simple to say that the physician was useless and, to be honest, his quick fix tablets were useless, but his advice was spot on. I lost eight kilos (20 pounds) over a week or so and could stand up straight again.
Now, I still have back pain, but I know that I can afford to lose another 20 pounds, although the actual need - the debilitating twenty-four hour pain - has passed, which will make it more difficult for me to focus on losing more weight.
That is not the doctor’s fault, it is mine.
We live in a culture where we expect a tablet to cure us and some doctors pander to this culture (like mine did). Unfortunately, fifteen minutes with the medical doctor and a handful of pills will not cure all our ills. Sometimes, we have to comprehend that we are our own worst enemies and hold our hands up.
This is not to say that doctors are always right. I have a friend who has had debilitating back pain for thirty years and had to give up work early. His wife left him too because she could no longer cope. He sits at home alone most days very lonely.
When I told him that I had obtained relief from massage, he told me that his medical doctor had told him 20 years ago that neither massage nor acupuncture could help him, so he has never tried them.
You could say that my friend should have tried them anyway and I would agree with you, but he believed, and still believes, his GP.
It is a real shame if people close their minds off to things that they know nothing of so they are not able to make a sensible decision. It has cost my friend 30 years of mobility and his best friend.
Bob Dylan said it best when he sang:
‘Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin’. Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand For the times they are a-changin’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWdCKPtnYE
there is a lesson there for a lot of us, I think.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a variety of topics, but is now involved with sciatica pain management. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at Sore Back Remedies
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