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Back Pain Risk Factors - What Activities Should be Avoided

Back pain risk factors are the factors that increase the likelihood of a person developing back pain. Whether you’re playing golf, lifting boxes, or just trying to keep up with the kids, back pain can practically come out of nowhere, leaving you looking for relief. Back pain is a symptom that typically originates from the muscles, joints or nerves, and can often be traced to spine degeneration in older people. The silver lining is that back pain is extremely common and can usually be managed with conservative, non-invasive treatment.

Risks

Back pain can be caused in all sorts of ways, but some of the most common back pain risk factors include:

• Injury – traumatic, sports-related, or even seemingly minor
• Repetitive motion –continually twisting, bending, or lifting
• Vibration – constant vibration from a vehicle or machinery
• Obesity – extra body fat puts additional stress on the spine
• Poor posture – incorrect alignment of the spine leads to pain
• Smoking – reduces bone density and increases chance for damage
• Pathological – disease, infection, or tumor

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Treatment

While nearly everyone will experience a degree of back pain at some point in life, the good news is that this discomfort is usually manageable with a course of conservative, non-invasive treatment over several weeks. In most cases, after the source of the back pain has been identified, a doctor will attempt to both manage the patient’s symptoms and address the source of the discomfort. For example, if a bulging disc is causing lower back pain, the doctor may recommend heat therapy and some specific exercises to heal the disc, and pain medication to alleviate the patient’s discomfort.

In the event that conservative treatment proves ineffective, contact Laser Spine Institute to learn about our minimally invasive endoscopic techniques. These outpatient procedures are conducted with effective, state-of-the-art laser technology, which allows our experienced orthopedic experts to pinpoint the source of the back pain and make the necessary adjustment – often in less than an hour.

Call today for more information on the various back pain risk factors and endoscopic treatment from Laser Spine Institute.

Please note: Laser Spine Institute currently does not perform endoscopic procedures on the thoracic spine.