Are You Suffering from Severe Back Pain?

Severe Back Pain

You're not alone. Most people will at some time in their lives experience this type of pain. But we all experience pain differently and therefore benefit from different treatments. More importantly, sufferers of severe pain need to manage it before it manifests in worse symptoms.

Not long ago it emerged in newspaper reports that German literary genius Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, famed not only for his writing but admired for his upright posture, suffered from a degenerative disease that leads to deformation of the spine. Apparently he suffered for more than 40 years with severe pain.

Charles Darwin is said to have suffered from lumbago, severe pain in the lower part of the spine.

Howard Hughes, the American billionaire famous more for his eccentricities than his money, was another well-known character who lived, or tried to live, with severe spinal pain. He is said to have taken large does of morphine for the pain creating secondary medical problems, including constipation, and probably responsible for many of the rumors of his apparently bizarre lifestyle. His problem started after he was involved in a plane crash.

Poet John Keats was known to have a C-shaped spine. He stooped and suffered much of his life with severe pain.

Do you suffer in silence or try every advertised so-called cure or therapy for your severe back pain? As individuals we all experience, and deal with, pain differently. That is why it is important to consult an expert for the best treatment for your pain.

Severe pain cannot be cured overnight. It can however be eased with pain killers - the most commonly used include Naproxen and COX-2 inhibitors, both non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) - and sensible back health like gentle exercise, massage, therapy, warmth and good posture habits.

After the common cold, back pain is the most common cause of work absenteeism. Unfortunately, how we work, stress at work and the kind of posture we adopt while performing our jobs, e.g., sitting at a desk all day or manual labor, are all contributing factors to the state of our back health. It is only recently people have recognized the importance of learning good posture from an early age for health and not just aesthetic reasons.

Severe spinal pain is a common cause, as well as common symptom, of depression. It's a vicious circle of deteriorating health. The "snap out of it" approach has never worked with depression and neither does it work with severe pain.

With more and more people suffering from this debilitating disorder, it is essential that anyone with severe spinal pain consult an expert to treat the problem before the pain starts to affect their emotional and not just their physical life.

Also read our article about Medication for Back Pain