Your back is killing you from all that snow shoveling the past couple weeks. You move like you’re 99 years old. Your back feels like it’s 129 years old!

Time to quit stalling and get to the root of your lower back pain causes.

Eight out of ten people in America will experience lower back pain at some point.

Here’s some of the causes of lower back pain:

- a sudden injury from an accident, a fall, sports, snow shoveling, or any number of other possibilities. Sleeping wrong will give you lower back pain.

- Gynecological conditions such as menstrual cramps, fibroid tumors, pregnancy, and endometriosis are some of the lower back pain causes among women.

- Stress to the muscles, nerves, or ligaments in the lower back.

- Certain jobs that require extensive sitting for long periods of time in an unfriendly chair, or standing for long periods often increase back stress and cause lower back pain.

- Bone or other joint diseases such as opteoporosis, arthritis, osteoarthritis are often the cause of lower back pain.

- Being sedentary, not getting enough physical activity, being over-weight are often stresses that will cause lower back pain as well.

- sciatica, pinched nerves, slipped discs, aging and other infections are other common lower back pain causes.

- smoking is another major cause of low back pain. According to John Hopkins University research covering a period of over fifty years, researchers found that smoking history, hypertension and coronary artery disease are significantly associated with the development of lower back pain.

There are many more causes of lower back pain than we can list here but these are the primary causes.

There are more severe lower back pain causes such as spinal tumors and other serious spinal issues. These are not to be ignored. If your back pain is sudden and severe and it isn’t during your normal chiropractor or health care provider’s business hours, go immediately to your local hospital emergency room.

If you’re in mid-Michigan and are suffering any of the above symptoms of low back pain, visit Colestock Family Chiropractic in Eaton Rapids, between Lansing and Jackson and about 12 miles east of Charlotte off M-50. Call our office at 663.8825 to schedule an appointment.

Colestock Family Chiropractic specializes in “the Gentle Approach to Chiropractic Care” using the Activator Method Technique. For more information on this technique, you can read more about it on this website, or by Googling “activator method technique” without the parentheses.