SIMPLE BACK PAIN, MECHANICAL BACK PAIN, PHYSICALLY INDUCED BACK PAIN OR ANATOMICALLY MOTIVATED BACK PAIN...

SIMPLE BACK PAIN, MECHANICAL BACK PAIN, PHYSICALLY INDUCED BACK PAIN OR ANATOMICALLY MOTIVATED BACK PAIN.....

Confusing... well I certainly was and the only way to explain it in simple term is that the difference between 'simple' back pain and other types of back pain is that your lumber or sciatic nerve roots or spinal cored are not compressed.

Apparently back pain is labelled 'simple' if its pain triggered by a mechanical source.

Simple back pain tends to be in the small of your back, buttocks and thighs and most people can recover from this within six weeks.

However, it could be something more complicated like a slipped disc, also known as a herniated, ruptured or prolapsed disc.

Or, a nerve root pain which can arise from the prolapse or slipping of a disc, narrowing the spinal canal where the nerves pass through, or scarring from previous surgery.

It could also be a sacro-iliac strain and stiffness or something nasty like an infection or tumour but they are very rare.

Physically induced back pain is most likely to occur if you have been doing too much gardening or similar which has just irritated your back slightly.

And anatomically motivated back pain is a general term for 'dorsopathy' which is caused by a structural back injury so basically we are back to the simple back pain.

Still confused?... me to but I think I understand a bit of it.