“Why do I feel lower back pain?”
I'm 45 years old, and the pain in my lower back worsens after I sit, stand, and walk for some time. Why do you think it's happening? I haven't injured myself.
16 Answers
Wear and tear!!! Think of all the stuff you have put your back through over your 45 years! Subluxation (pinched nerve) can happen even without an injury. Go! You will be so glad you did!!!
A vertebra can be out of line and causing pressure on the nerves in the lower back. The sitting posture causes more stress on the discs in the spine which are the shock absorbers.
Hello,
This sounds like an issue with one of the low back muscles. Adjustments, stretching, and self help exercises can restore balance to the muscle for it to function properly and give you relief.
Thank you
This sounds like an issue with one of the low back muscles. Adjustments, stretching, and self help exercises can restore balance to the muscle for it to function properly and give you relief.
Thank you
As we progress through life (age) we tend to put minor stresses and strains on our spine and musculo-skeletal system. Often times our body can tolerate the subtle inflammation associated with this change until we reach our capacity to tolerate them. Once that moment occurs, often times without trauma, we experience symptoms such as pain. There are, of course, other situations that can cause low back pain insidiously (without warning or trauma) however degenerative changes to joint mechanics is a very common cause, especially as we reach mid age.
Many people have back pain even though there was no particular injury. Misalignment of the sacroiliac joint(s), facet joint irritation or disc pathology often cause lower back pain without any particular injury. Consult a chiropractic physician or an orthopedic physician soon to get an accurate diagnosis and a proper treatment protocol.
Take care and be well,
Dr. Eric Miller
Take care and be well,
Dr. Eric Miller
Hi there, some of these pains can occur during something we like to call repetitive traumas i.e. improper postures from sleeping in wrong positions, or work related traumas including lifting, sitting or standing for long periods all can bring on sudden back pain without injury.
The low back pain you feel when you sit, stand, or walk for a while is most likely due to degenerative changes in the disk between two of your vertebra. Which also means at some time, you injured that joint. Now it may not be an injury like you’re thinking: “Lift something heavy, hear a pop, and now you have pain.” Sometimes the injury I speak of is very small. You might not even notice you did it at the time, but it started a process and over time it has become a problem and now the joints involved and the nerves at that spinal level are not functioning properly. You should certainly seek the help of a chiropractor before it gets worse. And when I say “before it gets worse,” I mean that it will get worse and it will likely get worse sooner versus later. A course of corrective treatment with a chiropractor followed by maintenance care with your chiropractor will give you the best chance at fixing the problem you have and prevent it from coming back. Lastly, because chiropractic adjustments get the joints moving again, the adjustments put a halt to degenerative changes so they don’t progress and make your condition worse. This is a huge reason as to why you will need to continue with maintenance care with your chiropractor after you address the acute problem.
I hope this helps you find a solution. Good luck!
Dr. John G. Vilkelis
I hope this helps you find a solution. Good luck!
Dr. John G. Vilkelis
There are 12 potential reasons you have back pain under the circumstances you sighted. An examination to determine the etiology of your problem would need to be performed to determine.
Oftentimes, people injure themselves unknowingly. Through improper sleeping positions, lifting improperly, playing too roughly, ect. Joints can become misaligned through any of these types of activities. Once misaligned, pain is not always noticed immediately. However, early detection, and early correction, is always the way to go, the longer any problem goes undetected, the bigger and worse the problem becomes. The first bodily response to joint misalignment is: inflammation. Inflammation causes the injured joint to become tender to touch. so you might turn a certain way, or someone might touch a spot on your back that might be very tender, that you probably never noticed until they touched you, but because the pain did not persist, you did not believe that that was anything to be concerned about, when that was your body's way of letting you know that there was something going on there, but you ignored it. The longer that joints are allowed to remain misaligned, the more likely those joints are likely to begin the degeneration process, which is called: osteoarthritis. You do not automatically get osteoarthritis by getting older, osteoarthritis is the indication of how old the joint problem is. X-rays show weather there is osteoarthritis setting up in joints or not, as well as revealing the alignment or misalignment of joints.
There might be some disc damage or bulge of L4 and/or L5. Specific scientific chiropractic adjustments will correct your problem. They should have experience with these types of cases. Caution about waiting to get this problem fixed. Have a "Gonstead" chiropractor work on this problem for you.
I get asked this question quite often in our office. Injury to the spine and joints aren't always obvious. They can be from big traumas like a car accident, slip and fall, or from small repetitive things we do on a day-to-day basis. If your spine is out of proper alignment, everyday actions like standing and sitting can cause stress on our spinal structures. That stress can later manifest as lower back pain or other symptoms. I would recommend getting checked out by your local chiropractor to see if anything underlying is contributing to your pain.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Even without a specific injury, the body sustains micro-traumas that can accumulate of a period of years until a threshold is reached. Pain is your body's warning system that something is wrong. Get a spinal check-up from your local chiropractor (to include low back postural X-rays) to best find out what is happening and the best way to fix it.
Your symptom is atypical. Pain after sitting would indicate a disc problem. The other situations put in a different category. It would be recommended to have X-rays & possibly an MRI to rule out a structural problem like stenosis.
An exam and X-ray is needed to find out.
Because there is probably something going on.
It sounds like you have an underlying dysfunction in your low back or pelvis which needs to be addressed. There may also be a postural component to your lower back pain. I recommend visiting a Chiropractor or Physical Therapist to assess and treat any dysfunction you may have, which is causing the pain.
