What are the causes of back pain?
• In over 90% of patients, pain is due to complaints in the back itself. These are known as “mechanical complaints” and are the subject of this Web Site. • They are recognized because pain varies according to posture, movement and effort, and is not accompanied by any sign of general disease, such as fever or weight loss. • Most of the “mechanical” complaints are caused by the deficient performance of the back musculature. On other occasions, these may be due to structural lesions of the components of the spine, such as fractures, protrusions or hernias of the intervertebral disc or wear and tear in the facetary joint. In some cases, it is impossible to determine the origin of the pain with accuracy. • The pain caused by mechanical complaints is due to the activation of pain-transmitting nerves, and may go hand in hand with muscular contracture and swelling. If you are interested in learning how such mechanisms are triggered, click here. • In other cases, which are much less frequent,
