In this video, I want to talk about why people get back pain. There's a very common theory that has been thought in the past that back pain is a result of some type of injury, overuse exertion, anything of that sort that caused a traumatic event, which brought pain. But this is an over simplistic model. And studies show that it's a little bit more complicated than that. In fact, there was a very large study that showed only a modest connection between people who had back pain and people who over exerted themselves in the past or worked in different types of fields where they had to carry heavy loads, or put a lot of pressure on the muscles of their back. There are a number of other factors which have also been shown to cause back pain, not just traumatic events, and we're talking about acute and chronic back pain, acute being in the short term.

Chronic being in the long term. These factors include emotional stress, people who have elevated levels of stress in their lifetime causative stress things like distractions. And lastly, non painful triggers like sleep deprivation. People who don't sleep enough, are at a much higher of a risk to suffer from back pain than those who get an adequate number of hours in the night. On a side note, for those suffering from sleep deprivation, we have a course all about sleep deprivation, deprivation, and getting a better night's sleep, why it's important how it's important and techniques that you can use to make sure that you sleep well. One of the strongest predictive factors, whether if somebody is going to suffer from back pain or not, is the amount of satisfaction they have from their job.

People who are highly dissatisfied at work and have high amounts of stress, suffer from back pain and much greater numbers than those who enjoy what they do and have less than Some stress in their life. Aside from the emotional aspect, a number of structural changes can also cause back pain. Now we're getting into the into the more physical part of things, how a spine is built, if there's any pathology or anything abnormal about someone's spine, and of course, traumatic injury. All of these play a role into whether someone suffers from back pain or not, along with what type of back pain they have and what type they're suffering from. Now, this is very important, because to know how to treat yourself properly, you have to truly understand what the source of the pain is. There are two more reasons for back pain that I want to mention.

One are the visceral organs internal organs in the body that can radiate and cause back pain as the main symptom. kidneys are a great example of this. Somebody suffering from kidney stones for example, might have extreme back pain. The damage The system can also cause back pain, as well as the other internal organs. only a very small percentage of people suffering from back pain are suffering from that pain because of an organic disease that causes the pain and this includes inflammatory pain, an infection, or malignancy. Again, this is a very small percentage of the people suffering from back pain.

All right now we've talked about the reasons why someone suffering from back pain. In the next video, we're going to talk about red flags of back pain.