Back Pain

Back pain is pain felt in the back that usually originates from the muscles, nerves, bones, joints or other structures in the spine.
Even though back pain can affect people of any age, it is significantly more common among adults aged between 35 and 55 years. Back pain is second only to upper respiratory conditions as the stated cause of work loss.

Risk factors:
• Certain risk factors increase your chances of developing back pain. These include:
Being overweight the extra weight puts pressure on the spine; you can use the BMI healthy weight calculator to find out if you need to lose weight.
Smoking, –this may be due to tissue damage in the back caused by smoking or the fact that smokers tend to have unhealthier lifestyles than non-smokers. Get help quitting;
Being pregnant, – the extra weight of carrying a baby can place additional strain on the back.
Stress and depression, cause tension in the back muscles which can result in back pain. In long term, they tend to use the vital bio-chemicals of the body including weakening of the immune responses with resultant back pain or backache in the susceptibles.

Diagnosis
Unless you are totally immobilized from a back injury, your doctor probably will examine your range of motion and nerve function and touch yourbody to locate the area of discomfort. Blood and urine tests may be done to determine if the pain is caused by an infection or other systemic problem.
X-rays are useful in pinpointing broken bones or other skeletal defects. They can sometimes help locate problems in connective tissue. To analyze soft-tissue or disc damage, computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans may be needed. X-rays and imaging studies are generally used to confirm your symptoms and the exam results to identify the source of pain. Scans are also utilized in cases of direct trauma to the back, back pain with fever, or weakness or numbness in the limbs. To determine possible nerve or muscle damage, an electromyogram (EMG) may be ordered.

Homeopathy treatment:
Backache or back pain is a symptom rather than a single entity of the weakening Immune system of the body which otherwise was not able to cope up for the wear and tear of increased demands. Right Homeopathic treatment at Dr Manus Homeopathy accounts the required corrections to revert the immune system back to normalcy which in turn solves the issue of backache. The deranged metabolism is set right by Homeopathic doses supplementing for the required energy provided from natural food and sunlight which is needed for repair. Associated disease complexities are wiped out by regular Homeopathic treatment, conditionally.