Back pain Problems

Flexible and stable, moving joyfully and tough – our back is sensationell built. And sensitive like a mimosa. To back pain to grips with, experts are new therapeutic pathways.

80 percent of the German experience at least once in their lifetime severe pain between the neck and coccyx. At any given time, 39 percent of women and 31 percent of the men here just some pain in the back. Every fifth woman and every seventh man suffering under the Health Report of the Robert Koch Institute in 2006 from chronic pain along the spine.

On the other hand, that only a fraction of back pain among patients with specific organic causes suffering. For the others, despite no clear diagnosis complex causes can be identified. In other words: expensive imaging procedures such as MRI or computed tomography showed no changes in the vertebrae or discs. The perceived pain are nothing compared to the medical examination results.

“The problem is that many doctors back pain is still too little differentiated look,” says Hans-Raimund Casser, director of the German Red Cross Pain Center in Mainz. “Dysfunction by poor posture and muscular imbalance, and especially the psychosocial aspects are often completely neglected . from uncertainty in the diagnosis are then many high-tech methods are used, which are superfluous. ”

Change in therapy
The growing gap between back pain and barely detectable organic causes continued rethinking of the physicians in motion away from too much diagnostics, already out of position and passive treatment to active pain control, back into everyday life, purely in the movement. Professionals are increasingly of the view that a “about therapy” rather prolonged back pain and the transition from acute to chronic back pain promotes. “The majority of back problems can in fact very reluctant to treat. Sometimes enough awareness of the patient that he will remain in motion and its rhythm of life is maintained, “explains the pain physician Casser.

With a combination of prevention – taking account of psychosocial factors such as life and job satisfaction – and movement programs should circle back to the problem of the disease aspect will be taken, and above all: It is designed to prevent acute from chronic back pain complaints are. Because the parties concerned can life to hell to make.