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Effects of Lower Back Pain

Addressing Lower Back Pain at Phoenix Family Clinic

If you are one of those innumerable people who suffer from pain in their lower back, you will definitely know the effects and the problems that are associated with such pains. But such pains can affect you in several ways. Moreover how your life has got affected, also depends on the severity or degree of your back pain.

It is quite helpful to know some of those areas that get affected due to your lower back pain before they can endanger your way of leading life. Such knowledge will be also helpful for minimizing, preventing and protecting you from these effects in the future days.

Effect on your family life

Since you will experience pain, your mobility gets affected and with that there is an effect on your ability on getting actively engaged with your family. Due to your sudden back problem, you may have to take rest on occasional days that can often lead to emotions such as disagreements, avoidance, arguments, and frustration. As your pain persists for several days, you may be able to spend less time with your other family members.

Effect of pain on emotions and temperaments

In case you are suffering from chronic lumber pain, you have less tolerance to stress. Moreover, you will also show a tendency to be sensitive towards anything and everything that can make it even worse. Since it takes a lot of time to improve your back pain and there may be rare changes in your condition from one day to another, it is tough as your emotions and temperaments to change too.

When you take medications for your pain, there is hardly a scenario when there is a quick improvement in your back pain. In fact, often it is the reverse that is true. Within a short span of time, your back pain can worsen. Perhaps that is the key reason why people who ail from back pain are more susceptible to mood swings and negative emotions. People who suffer from occasional back pain become more worried, anxious, afraid, protective and hesitant while doing many activities. In such scenarios, people should engage in more social, healthier, reliable and safer activities that are crucial for getting proper relief.

Effect of pain on mobility

Continuous pain leads to restriction in mobility or moving with caution. If you are suffering from a back pain, you may become unwilling to engage in those daily activities that seemed easy before your present condition. When the pain comes down, you may continue with your earlier activities with little changes without realizing that your activities may have an effect on your pain or not.

But with time, as the pain becomes more prominent and less avoidable, you may take a decision that it is better and safer to remain less active. Though, it may be a sensible decision to engage in lesser activities so that the pain can be avoided, you should also try to do the activity in a different manner and try to do so proactively after considering whether the concerned activity will cause any damage to your spine or not while you are doing that task.

Whenever you experience extreme lower back pain, let your family physician know. If you are unable to see them in quick enough time, try our walk-in family clinics all throughout Phoenix, AZ. Our providers can assess your chronic pain and try alternative methods to give you relief until your next primary care viist.