Hi everyone I'm Dr. David Warwick of Warwick Chiropractic and Massage in
Lacey Olympia Washington your local Seattle Tacoma chiropractor today we're
going to be looking at causes of low back pain or tension that goes on a very
common condition and research is showing that over 50% of adult population is
experiencing low back either for a three-month time frame over a course of
a year it can persist for months weeks years
even longer and this affects most important the most important things your
ability to work play and enjoy your life so let's take a look at the low back
anatomy and find out where some of these things are coming from so first of all
we have five lumbar vertebrae that are located just below the last rib
extending down to the sacrum right here hopefully you can see that I'll bring
that a little bit closer in through there now these large box shaped
vertebrae are vertebral bodies and they're strong they're made to wear our
bare heavy type weight in between each of the vertebrae are your shock
absorbers those are the discs the discs are made up of a really tough outer
layer with a soft liquid Center that's in there this absorbs the load that's
put it or pressure that's put on there the spinal cord runs right through the
middle of the vertebrae and this is called the spinal canal nerves also exit
from the spinal cord out the canal through the frame and these are the
little holes right out here on each side of the vertebra the back of the vertebra
is made up of the spinous the transverse process the two wings outside of here
and then you have what's called the facet joints and that's right here this
allows you to primarily for the lower back to bend forward to bend backwards
some motion side-to-side and obviously a limited amount of rotation of the lower
back by the way a huge key cause of low back Fassett or joint injuries that can
occur is from movements that are usually comprised of trying to bend
twist so below the center of the spine sits the sacrum bone right through here
it's that wedge-shaped bone between the left and the right ilium these are the
wings of the pelvis or Illya and this for forms SI joint or sacral iliac
joint sometimes people call this the hip and for many years anatomist didn't
believe that the SI joint moved but there's over 20 structures of ligaments
on each sec hold the joint together here and this could be a huge pain generator
in fact low back pain complaints over 30% will primarily have the SI joint is
a primary cause or involvement in there so all right so each of the above
Anatomy structures can have a potential cause or be a potential cause for low
back pain presenting you know symptoms or clinical signs out a doctor of
chiropractic and figure out and what's going on so for example when a patient
says to me my back pain kills me in the pain shoots down my leg when I bend over
but feels better when I'm bending backward and my leg pain starts to
disappear this is caused by a herniated disc pinching on a nerve in the lower
back you know so it's important to examine one the nerves that run down
the leg two the nerves can be become damaged over pressure that's exerting on
it exerted on them for a longer period of time and as a doctor of chiropractic
we can walk you you know have you do certain things such as walking on your
toes and heels checking your reflexes either at the knee and the heel testing
your ability to feel sensation in the skin all these are parts of you know to
share with us what the loss of the function is and the goal you know of
care to remove the pinching on the nerve restoring feeling and strength and
getting you out of pain on the other hand when the patient feels better
bending over versus and bending backwards you know the SI joints may be
involved in maybe the or and/or SI joint may be involved in that so if you're
experiencing any of these things that I talked about today
feel free to give us a call at our office visit my website DrDavidWarwick.com
or visit or give us a call
360 951 4504 you know and also feel free to look
at and download the back and neck pain book that I have on my website as well
and see if any of those information can trigger some things for you to look at
I'm Dr. David Warwick of Warwick Chiropractic in Lacey Olympia Washington
thank you for watching and I'll see you soon bye-bye
you