When complaints are back pain chronic? There are a number of factors can be identified. In the body appear to play a number of processes. Many of these processes can be characterized as mental processes. Nobody likes pain fun, so you will avoid making everything possible pain you can get. This often causes such pain avoiding behavior that not only the activity that causes pain is avoided, but also subconsciously those things (yet) did not hurt.


The patient is in a downward spiral, resulting in a decrease in the overall physical condition and the condition of the trunk muscles. It is the muscles of the back and abdomen is essential to any weak spot in the back to compensate. We can change the way the muscles of the back and abdomen is best compared with the shrouds of a sailing ship, without this, the mast staging already at a small breeze omknakken.

Furthermore, we know another important phenomenon that we call sometime. It occur a stress response to muscle in the back muscles. During sleep there under the influence of various stress factors, excessive tightening of the dorsal muscles. This can quickly become depleted and one morning woke up stiff and sore all directly. It is clear that if these factors, the muscles in a poor condition and will soon get congested with pain as a logical consequence.

Chronic back pain therefore has a multifactor cause. Therapy should therefore focus on addressing all these factors together, preferably in an integrated multidisciplinary approach. Only then is there a good chance of a successful outcome.