Back Muscles

Back muscles are the bane of many back pain patients. Muscular back pain is the most common symptom of patients with chronic pain conditions. Acute muscular injuries can be extremely painful, yet they often heal with no treatment in a short period of time. Unresolved chronic muscle pain is almost always an indicator of a psychosomatic cause behind the patient’s suffering.

Back Muscle Anatomy

Muscles in the back, neck and buttocks are some of the most important in the body. They are instrumental in controlling posture and locomotion, as well as providing support and structure for our skeletons. Postural muscles work around the clock and have the ability to perform for hours upon end. Muscles in the lower back and buttocks are some of the strongest in the human body.

Muscular Back Injury

It is possible to overexert a muscle from repeated or constant use. This can cause a build up of waste products, such as lactic acid, in the muscle fibers. These waste products can cause mild pain, heat and fatigue in the surrounding area. Muscles and ligaments can tear or become detached. This type of muscular injury is usually very painful and can cause a deficiency of strength in the affected area. Muscles can also suffer bruising like any other soft tissue in the body. Muscular bruising can be sore, but is rarely serious.

Back Muscle Pain

The most common form of chronic muscular back pain is due to oxygen deprivation of the muscles and nerves in the affected region. This is the process which causes symptoms in all types of psychosomatic pain syndromes, including fibromyalgia. This type of pain is often blamed on some coincidental spinal scapegoat condition. The majority of acute cases of muscular back pain go away in a few days to 2 weeks. Long term muscle pain is almost always an indicator of some psychological causation behind the pain.

Recommendation on Back Muscles

Your back and spine are super strong. Millions of years of evolution have guaranteed that your spinal structures and musculature are more than sufficient to get you through life. Public perception views the back and spine as fragile structures with a bad reputation for developing chronic pain. This perception has been created by all the factors which have contributed to the current epidemic of back pain.

It is important to have faith that muscular injuries will heal. If not, you are setting yourself up for the start of a possible long term psychosomatic pain condition that will use the muscle injury as a trigger to begin chronic symptoms. This is the situation seen over and over again in patients with tension myositis syndrome.

Understand anatomy and you will understand why chronic muscle pain rarely makes any sense. Do not expect to get this information from your doctor, since treatment of chronic muscle pain is a HUGE BUSINESS within the back pain industry.