Is Your Back Pain Due to Muscle Tension or Spinal Issues?

If you have back pain that comes on repeatedly, that’s a sign that the underlying issue hasn’t been fully addressed. It’s important to recognize that back pain is a symptom, not a diagnosis. Back pain can be due to muscle tension or due spinal issues. If your back pain is caused by muscle tension, primarily due to sore or stiff muscle, usually it would not cause long-term damage to your back. Back pain caused by the muscle tension is more localized in one location and may only hurt when you’re in a specific physical position or when you move in a certain way. If the back pain is severe, then pain may extend to muscles in the buttocks or hips. Back muscle pain can feel like a burning or shooting sensation that causes tightness or stiffness. The pain may linger. Muscle pain can be from an injury or inflammation in the muscles. Too much physical stress on the back from lifting, twisting, or stretching can cause back pain, especially in the lower back. It can also be caused by putting your back in awkward positions that it’s not used to, or it can be caused by overextending your back while reaching for something. You may have back soreness from doing yardwork or from lifting objects incorrectly. Typically, you will know what caused the problem because the pain will be felt almost immediately after the physical action occurred. The pain felt will be aches or tightness in the affected area. On the other hand, if your back pain is caused by spinal tension, the pain can shoot to various parts of the body. Spinal pain and aches can be commonly felt in the legs, glutes, and groin. The most common form of spinal pain can be injury, arthritis, vertebrae being worn out, facet joints syndrome, herniated disk, bone spurs, osteoarthritis, and spinal infection. The usual symptom of spinal pain is a continuous ache that can last for weeks. The medical industry gives steroid injections which may stop or lessen pain for a while, but they are not long-term solutions. Why not try a natural remedy which can be effective in reducing back pain without side effects? When you come in to HijamaEnergetics for back pain, we will first evaluate if your back pain is due to muscle tension or spine related. Back pain due to muscle tension can be easily resolved at HIjamaEnergetics in one or two sessions. On the other hand, if your back pain is spine related, there need to be more work performed, and that may entail doing several sessions of HijamaEnergetics for resolution of the pain. At HijamaEnergetics, we only use natural healing modalities such as Hijama, herbs, nutritionals, bodywork, microcurrent therapy, bioenergetic remedies and emotional healing.