Low Back Pain

There are various causes of low back pain. Hard physical jobs that involve lifting excessive weights could be the cause of pain as much as a couch potato life style. Excessive sitting is, perhaps, the most harmful job that a person can do. It not only weakens the musculoskeletal support to the back, but also causes excessive stress and pressure on the spinal joints, ligaments and disc. Other causes of back pain frequently seen at Atlas Pain Care are disc degeneration, facet hypertrophy (spinal joints arthritis) and Spondylolisthesis (forward displacement of vertebrae). Back pains are common in either the upper or lower back, as these parts are more flexible and mobile than the middle portion. They are classified as acute low back pain which lasts for less than 6 weeks, sub-acute pain that lasts for 6 to 12 weeks, and the most agonizing of them all - chronic back pain - which lasts for more than 12 weeks and sometimes years together. Chronic low back pain tends to affect