Axial Back Pain - The Most Common Low Back Pain

Lower back muscle pain may be a result of muscle or nerve irritation or bone lesions. It is caused due to an injury or trauma to the back. In fact, there are number of causes behind lower back pain. The severity of the pain depends upon the type of low back pain. Axial back pain is one of the types of lower back muscle pain.

Axial lower back muscle pain could be mild or severe, dull or sharp which can be felt constantly or intermittently. Axial pain is usually mechanical and is characterized by the muscle pain that gets worse with certain activities like sports, pain that gets worse with certain positions like sitting for long periods, muscle pain that is relieved by rest. The area covered by this muscle pain is the low back area. This pain does not travel or radiate in to other parts of the body. Axial lower back pain can vary widely: it can be a sharp or dull pain, it can be felt constantly or intermittently, and the pain can range from mild to severe. The most common type of axial back pain is "mechanical” and is characterized as:

*Low back pain that gets worse with certain activities (e.g. certain sports)

*Low back pain that gets worse with certain positions (e.g. sitting for long periods)

*Low back pain that is relieved by rest

Axial pain represents the most common type of low back pain, and it is usually non-specific – meaning that the anatomical structure responsible for the pain need not be identified because symptoms are usually self limited and resolve. Axial pain is confined to the low back area. Unlike other low back problems, this type of pain does not travel into the buttock, legs and feet, or other areas of the body.

Treatment of Axial Lower Back Pain

Once the possibility of a serious underlying medical condition as the cause of a patient’s lower back pain is ruled out, treatment is conservative (non-surgical) and may include one or a combination of the following:

*A short period of rest (e.g. one or two days)

*Physical therapy and active exercise and stretching

* Ice and/or heat application for activity related pain relief

*Appropriate medications for pain relief (tramadol, fioricet, etc.)

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