What causes low back injuries resulting in low back pain?
There are many ways low back injuries occur. The more important question is what do I do now? Few GP’s will admit, as Dr Phil Hammond does in his book Trust Me I’m A Doctor that “they are not very good at treating back pain”. Most GP’s are reluctant to refer outside the NHS, even though chiropractors are specially trained to identify and advise on the specific cause of your spinal dysfunction (back pain). The bones of your spine protect the spinal cord as well as the nerve roots, sometimes they lose their normal motion or position (vertebral subluxation complex), and this can irritate the nerves that branch off the spinal cord to all the tissues of your body, resulting in back pain being experienced. In order for the spine to be flexible, the vertebrae are joined together by soft tissue structures known as discs. Each disc is made up of two parts a central soft core and outer rings of tough cartilage. The discs allow movement and also help to absorb shock. A slipped disc is the rather
