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Back Pain and Sciatica - Interesting FactsMost people know what it's like to have a bad back. The worst ones can leave you laid up for weeks and others become a constant irritation that occasionally settle down but invariably return with unfailing regularity, such as Sciatica. Reports I've read state that 20% of people at any one time suffer from low back pain, 80% of all adults will experience at least one episode of back pain in their lifetime, and around a half of those 80% will never actually find out the cause of their pain. This is of real concern considering it is acknowledged that the medical profession has, at best, a limited understanding of the condition.
The most common scenario for someone who gets back pain is for them to go and see their doctor. If the pain has been there for over a month or it involves nerve pain they get sent for X-rays or a more sophisticated scan and depending on what the doctor does or doesn't see they are prescribed drugs, stretching and/ or exercises, rest and perhaps surgery.
You may be sent to a conventional form of therapy where the practitioner, although confident and keen to do what they can, will tell you there is no simple cure for chronic back pain. At this point you have spent a lot of time and money and more often than not at the end of multiple sessions nothing has really changed. In other words, once you have chronic or recurring back pain the majority of people are told to limit or curtail their activities for the foreseeable future and in some cases permanently. “You just can’t play tennis anymore, your back can’t handle it.”
Many people believe back pain is a lot more of a problem than it actually is or should be. Have you ever tried to get hired by an employer who knows you have had a back injury or suffer from back pain or worse, sciatica?
The X-rays may sound like a good idea but unfortunately research has shown that even the best and most expensive imaging tests, like an MRI or CT scan may not show the simple muscle spasm or injured ligament that are responsible for the pain in around 85% of sufferers. Furthermore, even when abnormalities do show up on an X-ray or scan they are often not actually the cause of the person's pain. Each of these scans cost the person or health system hundreds of dollars each and are only necessary because of the incompetence of the practitioner referring for them.
Of course in some cases the x-ray or scan reveals the cause
of pain to be a serious underlying disease such as cancer, bone infection or
rare forms of arthritis, even diseases of other parts of the body. Fortunately
though cases of this type are extremely rare and 98% of back pain patients are
found to suffer from a relatively temporary injury, to the muscles, ligaments,
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