Back Pain – Everyone Gets it Once in their Lifetime

Everybody gets back pain once in their lifetime. The burden the back must bear may have age dependent reasons. Back pain commonly involves herniated disks or bones which irritate the spinal root, emerging between the vertebrae. Pain, as well as neuropathy may result. The biological cause is as follows: mediators of the immune system, the so called cytokines, are released, thus, causing pain, as well as inflammation of the nerval root. The protein Interleukin-1 plays a very important role.

Interleukin-1 damages the nerval root