Your Back Pain is More Complex Than You Think
A frequent situation with back pain is that patients who suffer from it can usually place a finger or point to where the problem is felt the worst. While this may indicate where, in general, the tissues and nerves are inflamed more than typical, it is common that no real tissue damage is seen.
Thus, are the nerves just overly excited or is there something that chiropractors are missing when evaluating pain in the spine? Discomfort from an injured back can radiate far from the guessed location of the damage, even all the way down to the hips.
Between 1 and 3 percent of the population shows evidence of slipped discs, yet this does not always cause pain. In fact, there is just as many people with a damaged disc who do not have back discomfort as there are people who do experience problems. This begs the question, is having a damaged disc in the spinal column required at all for back pain, or is something different at work?