Open AccessMini Review on Low Back Pain
Author(s) -
S.R RAJITHA
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of nursing and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-7442
DOI - 10.46811/apjnh/2.1.2
Subject(s) - distress , pain catastrophizing , pain relief , pain and suffering , social life , back pain , medicine , low back pain , psychiatry , psychology , physical therapy , alternative medicine , psychotherapist , chronic pain , sociology , law , political science , ethnology , pathology , anesthesia
Everyone has experienced some type or degree of pain. Pain is an unpleasant and highly personal experience that may be imperceptible to others, while consuming all parts of the person’s life. Pain is more than a symptom of a problem; it is a high priority problem in itself. Pain represents both physiologic and psychologic dangers to health and recovery. Severe pain is viewed as an emergency situation deserving attention and prompt professional treatment. A person in pain feels distress or suffering and seeks relief. Low back pain is an important clinical, social, economic and public health problem affecting the modern society indiscriminately. In persons under age 45, low back pain is responsible for more lost working hours than any other medical condition and represents one of the nation’s most costly health problems.