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Deciphering Origins of Body Pain

shanefrommaine

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Deciphering Origins of Body Pain

How can one tell the difference between different types of pain in the body, specifically in the back--where major amounts of people suffer pain.

I can't tell whether or not my back pain is from my posture, drug use, kidneys, liver, etc. I have read a lot on back pain originating from the liver or kidneys swelling and pressing against the walls of the back, resulting in severe lower back pain.

Whether or not I have taken my Suboxone or am laying down, sitting up, walking, anything... I have severe back pain.

Conclusion: I think it has to do with my drug use, posture, and chronic back adjustment issues (I crack my back all the time too).
I'd really like to hear if anyone has dealt with back pain originating from the kidneys or liver.
 
It is my opinion that learning anatomy is as important as learning geography, and you can never learn "too" much of either. The fact that a lot of people don't know where in their body the stomach is located is about as sad as the fact that just as many people cannot find Argentina on the map.

I feel that once one has a good picture of one's anatomy, one starts gaining awareness different kinds of pain, as well as the circuits which cause pain from one part to manifest in another area completely (the most famous example being pain in the left arm during a heart attack.

As for kidney pain in the back, I honestly cannot "describe" the difference... it feels more "visceral" than muscular or nervous, I suppose... But generally speaking if you're feeling constant, severe pain then your best bet would be a doctor since they're kinda trained for 8+ years to hopefully figure out answers to questions like yours.
 
lower back pain can be from posture but that problem can actually originate from how your feet sit in your shoes. i went to a really good chiro for a while, i don't mean some noob who studied how to crack spines i mean a guy who pioneered some of the bible on how to crack spines. one of the first and most important things he did with me was measure how balanced my hip was and mine was slightly off balance so some insoles and laced up high tops later i never have problems. if you have pain when you walk as well it could be a possibility...
 
Pectus excavatum (repaired) constant pain no matter what, feels like the ribs want to expand but is blocked with back and some chest pain.

it's unfortuneate because I don;t know what to blame the pain on... pathology and injury or general condition.. surely some pain must have developed independently of the condition itself but I always hurt in 3+ places in different ways. Doctors can't do anything except through T3s at me (dag...NABBIT!)

some of the pains are crippling, some are chronic and I just live with them, some pains travel to my neck and give me migranes, at this point i;ve learned to live with it realizing that I would need alot of tests to get done to tell me alot of things I already half-know...
 
If it's coming from organs then there will be deep percussion pain. Percussing the body is a diagnostic method to look for deep inflammation or disorder. If there's tapping pain, then it's more superficial and related to the soft tissue like the muscles. Tapping and percussing would have to be done by someone else on your back.

In most of the patients I've seen (like 90 percent), body pain comes from chronic injury combined with lack of healthy movement. Most people live pretty sedentary lives or their daily routines involve the use of one muscle group over another (i.e. they sit at a desk all day on the computer which uses upper back, mostly, so they get frozen shoulders).

All pain is due to stagnation or stasis. The area that's hurting does not have adequate circulation so the body fluid, lymph and blood flow less efficiently. Your lymph and veinous systems do not have their own pump like the arterial systems do. They rely on physical movement to circulate. Tissues underfed with nutrients and oxygen begin to congeal with their own metabolic wastes. When the tissues are not properly nourished or moved, they begin to adhere to one another. Over time, the adherence becomes more and more tough, until eventually, if severe enough, it becomes nodules or even scar tissue.

If someone has bone alignment problems like scoliosis or sciatica, then the tissues will be even more prone to stagnation because the misalignment causes dysfunction in the circulation. It's especially important for these people to have regular exercise, even if it's just stretching.

I have to stretch every single day, combined with making sure I get enough magnesium and phosphorous in my diet, in order to avoid getting lower back pain. My stress just gets put there.

An interesting thing that eastern medicine knows about but western medicine doesn't, is that this kind of stagnation can also lead to emotional upsets, manifesting as either frequent anger or depression.
 
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