Acupuncture for back pain

What is pain?

Fatigue, discomfort, pang, pang in the spine, or neck to the beginning of the buttocks is considered back pain.

Eighty percent of human beings feel pain (LBP) at some point in their lives. A smaller proportion have neck pain (neck) and neck, while others experience back pain. Most of these people can maintain their usual activities, but would comply with periods of discomfort or pain. About 30% of this group fail to work due to back pain.

What are the causes of low back pain?

In most cases, the pain is related to mechanical problems of the spine, that is, with defects in its function. The main treatment is to normalize the function, which can be achieved with exercises and other postural care.

What are the causes?

Much of the pain-related column is due to poor posture at work or in daily activities of every person, how to sit, lie down, load weight, sleep, etc.. Other causes are excess weight and sedentary lifestyle, due to lack of physical activity.

What are the symptoms?

Weight in the lower back, pain, numbness, loss of strength in the legs, pain in the gluteus, hamstrings, calves and soles of the feet, weakness of abdominal muscles, shortening of the muscles of the spine, stiffness and decreased mobility are generally some of the symptoms that people experience.

Back pain affects that group of people?

Back pain is not as necessarily just a group of people. Today 80% of the population had or have back pain. Therefore, one should take into account the living conditions of each person, for example, individuals who work sedentary activity with weight or stay long in one position are people predisposed to develop back pain.

Bad postural habits at the time sleeping or watching television, such as lying on couches, are factors that contribute to the development of back pain.

What is the treatment?

The first step is to find a doctor who can properly diagnose the problem, to be considered the cause of pain and refer the patient to a physiotherapist.

The professional rehabilitation therapy will, through specific techniques to treat spine and manual therapy, neural mobilization, analgesia by electrical appliances, postural correction exercises, strengthening exercises of the back, for example, Pilates, and stretching and acupuncture therapy.

How to prevent?

The best way to prevent back pain and improve posture on a daily basis, is maintaining the low weight in relation to their own height, and be physical active, preferably exercises out of the water to stimulate the absorption of calcium through the impact caused by physical activity. In this case, the most indicate is walking, or running 3 to 4 times a week.