It creaks in the night. It stops you dead in your tracks. You can't leave home because it is out there, waiting for you.  It will take you in the night when you make your next strenuous move. Your fear of recurring back or neck pain has left you a recluse, shut away, unable to interact with society.

Back and neck pain constitute some of the most common reasons for disability, missed work, and downright miserable days and nights for millions of Americans. Fortunately, the medical industry has made great strides in treating many of the problems associated with a bad back or a literal pain in the neck. Consider the following list of the ten most common causes of back and neck pain to gain a better understanding of how these things can happen to anyone, anytime, and potentially avoid them whenever possible.

Pain from a herniated disc, often called a ruptured disc, can range from mild and nagging, all the way to severe and debilitating. This condition occurs when one of the discs between the vertebrae in your back moves slightly out of alignment and begins rubbing on one of the surrounding nerves. What happens next is the body’s injury alert system takes over—the nerves send a message to the brain that something is wrong. In other words, pain occurs. Consider following the recommendations below.

When lower back pain stops you from living life the way you want, it’s time to seek expert medical care. Take a look at how Dr. Deuk at Deuk Spine Institute helped Jack Spadaro, an 80-year-young gentleman in Florida get back to his active lifestyle with a simple procedure and no post-operative pain medication. With a little help from Dr. Deuk, people much younger than Jack are amazed at everything he is able to do.

It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. Even though you risk physical injury and increasing levels of pain to your body every morning that you leave for work, your dedication to your craft remains proudly steadfast.

“I’ll take medical terminology for $400, Alex.”

“Derived from the latin suffix ‘–itis,’ which means inflammation, combined with the term for the joints located at the base of the lower spine called the sacroiliac joints, this relatively common condition causes discomfort, stiffness, and pain in the lower back and buttocks.”  

Common causes of lower back pain include improper lifting, poor posture, and perhaps the biggest culprit … old age. Any one of these can result in an injury to a lower back muscle, resulting in what’s commonly referred to as a strain. Such a minor injury is likely to go away within a relatively short period of time—usually a few days.

Tennis anyone? How about golf, racquetball, or even bowling if the weather’s bad? As we age, most of us make the gradual transition into one of these activities from more rigorous ones like football, basketball, or hockey because they take less of a physical toll on the body, while still providing some of the many health benefits associated with recreational activity.