Very many people are puzzled since their symptoms do not seem to match the explanation, and treatment often makes them feel worse.

Their pain puzzles them. Why is it so often worse in the morning after a night's rest, or after significant exercise? Why do they feel a lot better in sunny weather? There're logical explanations for these and lots of other seeming paradoxes.

Opposed to common opinion, lower back pain isn't an unavoidable part of old age, and poor posture is not to blame for back trouble. Bed rest has some benefits, surgery is only ever necessary in critical cases, traction and corsets sometimes make the difficulty worse and anti-inflammatory drugs all too often bring little or no back pain relief at all. Alternative practitioners offer positive aid but this is usually only short-term and does very little to relieve the underlying difficulty.

Thus, you might ask, how is the holistic approach to lower and upper back pain treatment so different? The crux of it lies in the fact that the most of back-pain therapists focus on relieving the current attack of pain but do very little to stop future attacks. I believe that we should be looking further than the actual attack of pain to the deep-rooted cause.

When a patient has intermittent back pain the key problem is present always. The pain is a result of a change in the underlying difficulty; by ridding the patient of pain the therapist isn't necessarily doing anything to solve the key problem.

I believe that all non-specific back pain has its root in an old injury, caused by a fall, perhaps, or few hard jolt or twist which disturbed the spinal column. The back might stay symptomless for years. Often a minor episode, like leaning over the bar or reaching to pick up a cup, might spark off problem. The pain may come and go over the years but the key trouble remains, as do the signs of the other complaints already mentioned.

Research over the past fifty years has shown that by promoting the recovery of bruised facet joints in the spine, it is possible for a troublesome back to be permanently restored to sound health. The tools and techniques of organic back pain treatment are broadly available in physiotherapy departments all over the country - manipulation, remobilization, massage, ultrasonic waves and surged faradism, (which is a controlled electrical current designed to stimulate the muscle). By using this physical medicine to treat the cause rather than the symptoms, physicians have given majority of their patients long-lasting relief from both back pain and the related illnesses, and there's no risk involved.