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Public health statistics show that 8 out of 10 people experience significant low back pain at some time in their lives; whether it is due to an injury, illness, or an unknown cause. The pain is a warning signal, an alarm that goes off when your body is trying to tell you that something is wrong and out of balance.
This is a diagram that sums up my holistic approach to treating low back pain. In the subsequent blog posts, I will go into more detail about each fundamental aspect of healing low back pain.
Low back pain is one of the most frequent complaints during a physician office visits, yet the mechanisms of causation for low back pain remain highly elusive. According to several studies, the exact cause of low back pain cannot be ascertained in over 90% of the cases from a Western medicine point of view. There are various diagnoses such as low back muscle strain / sprain, herniated disc, slipped disc, ruptured disc, spinal stenosis, idiopathic etiology, etc. However, regardless of the diagnosis, given the right non-invasive treatment to remove the stressors to the body, the body is able to heal itself, correct the anatomic abnormalities and remove the pain signal.
In April 2013, I was a 1st year resident working on the obstetrics floor. I worked long stressful hours taking care of pregnant patients who were in labor. One day, I was helping my patient deliver her baby. My supervisor was a 5foot tall midwife who insisted that the bed should be low for her height and that the bed should not be broken. She instructed me to stand on the side of the bed and bend over to deliver the baby. I’m 5’8” and needed to extremely bend over sideways in an awkward position to catch the baby safely. After a 45min delay in the delivery and a third degree laceration repair that took me another 45min to complete, I finally stood up straight and felt an excruciatingly painful low back muscle pull that led to an immediate spasm of my entire low back muscles. A couple days later, to make matters worse, I sneezed very hard and felt another popping sensation of my low back muscle and since then for many months, I walked around like a zombie hunched over and writhing in pain in my low back.
