Neurological damage almost always causes back pain. Many of us think when we hear our fellow employee complain their back hurts, that this is a muscular problem. It is not. 98% of back pain is a result of nerve damage as it slips through the verterbral arms extending out from your spine intended to cradle those spinal nerves.

So one morning after your coffee and before your shower, you are doing your stretches. You are full of energy and reach for the clouds when you are gripped by a strong cramp in your lower back on the right side. This is not your muscle overreacting to your efforts. This is a spinal nerve that has suffered a pinch from its passage through the foramen created by the boney arms of each verterbrae. The nerve was pinched because a disc of cartilage lost its spring or your stretch displaced it causing the nerve that controls that muscle on the right side of your back to spasm. What is next? Well, you take your hot shower and wonder how you will even get dressed since your movement is hampered severely by this one throbbing spot, hopefully, the hot shower will relax the muscle spasm.

It should ease the discomfort enough for you to get dressed but any continued back pain is now due to your displacement of that disc of cartilage. It bulged out and pushed or crimped the nerve, the question is how long will it stay that way. Until that nerve is unmolested by the bone passage it travels through on its exit from the spinal cord, the muscle or corresponding body function will not work as it should. If you have a condition knowns as stenosis, it may take longer than most patients to free the space around that nerve again. Muscles, fingers, bladder control and even lung function are all affected by a specific nerve exiting our spinal cord. This is why any trauma or simple weed pulling is enough to dislodge a disc, thereby, creating back pain. Most are familiar with the terms herniated or bulging discs. The symptom of that bulge is the nerve getting squeezed by the disc or the corresponding bone around its path from the spinal column itself. So the next time your husband says his feet hurt, know that it could actually be neurological damage in the back that is causing it.

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