Low Back and Neck Pain Causes and Treatment
Neck and back pain can interfere with your daily activities and reduce your quality of life. Depending on the condition causing your pain, there are a variety of effective options. JP Wanner, MD, spine surgeon, talks about the common causes of back and neck pain. Dr. Wanner also talks about how to prevent back and neck issues, as well as the spine conditions treated by the multidisciplinary specialists in our SpineCare Program.
Common Causes of Neck and Low Back Pain and How to Prevented It
So some of the most common causes of neck and back pain are overuse or misuse, arthritis and degenerative changes that result from aging. There can be more serious causes, and those include things like:
- Trauma
- Infection
- Spinal deformity
- Tumors
Preventing neck and back pain requires an understanding of what caused it. In general, weight loss, regular exercise, core strengthening and even stress management can reduce the number of cases. However, if patients have persistent neck and back pain, it's important that they come in to be seen, and we can develop a treatment plan for them.
Back and Neck Issues Treated by SpineCare
My team will treat the most common to the most complex neck and back issues. Those include things like:
- Spinal stenosis
- Disc degeneration
- Disc herniations
- Spinal trauma
- Spinal infections
- Spinal tumors.
Where to Get Treatment for Back or Neck Pain
As part of a large academic health network, we have access to multiple specialists — which allows us to develop the most individualized care possible. Our team includes orthopaedic surgeons - such as myself, neurosurgeons, physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors, chiropractors and physical and occupational therapists. We use a team-based approach, and we come together to develop a treatment plan that's best for our patients.
