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BACKPAIN

MID-BACK

Backpain is a very general word, caused by hundreds of different conditions. Most of them originate in the spine or ribs joints or back muscles, but referred pain from the organs does occur occasionally. An stomach ulcer can give you back pain.

Because it is so general, click on the links to the relevant part of the back.



The mid-back is called the thoracic spine. The name comes from 'thorax' which is that part of the spine between the neck and the diaphragm, the large muscle separating the chest from the tum.

The thoracic spine has twelve bones or vertebrae, and a myriad of joints and muscles relating to the ribs. Each ribs makes three joints with the spine and one with the sternum, or breast bone. Twelve pairs of ribs ... you get it. Pain!

Scheuermann's disease is a condition affecting about 5% of teenagers. Sadly, parents have often been told it's 'growing pains' (a condition which does not exist) and by the time they get to us, it is already chronic, and a spinal deformity is inevitable. This need not be so. As with adults, any pain that your child experiences which does not of itself go away should be investigated.

THE LOWER-BACK

The lower-back or lumbar spine stretches from the diaphragm to the pelvis, and consists of five bones. Here is where most serious back pain comes from. Low back pain used to be called lumbago, but we don't use the word any more. It's also too vague. Lumbago can be caused by anything from a slipped disc, to a sacro-iliac joint problem, to arthritis, to cancer ... forget the word! If you have arthritis in the lower back, or even are planning to go into the garden, think exercise.
Referred pain can also occur, for example menstrual cramps often refer to the back.



Backache? What's that?

For more details about Lower Back Pain.

THE PELVIS

The pelvis, a ring of three large bones below the lumbar spine, is also a source of back pain. A very common source actually. More about the sacro-iliac joints.

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