• Injury or overuse of muscles, ligaments, facet joints, and the sacroiliac joints.
• Pressure on nerve roots in the special canal.
• Small fractures to the spine from osteoporosis.
• Muscle spasm (very tense muscles that remain contracted).
• Ruptured or herniated disk.
• Degeneration of the disks.
• Poor alignment of the vertebrae.
• Spinal stenosis (narrowing the spinal canal).
• Strain or tears to the muscles or ligaments supporting the back.
• Spine curvatures which may be inherited and seen in children and teens.
• Other medical conditions like fibromyalgia.

Pain and spasm of the muscles in the lower back is the hallmark of back pain. This can occur after standing, stooping, bending, lifting, or after sitting in a chair for too long a time. Occasionally, pain is diffusely localized over the entire lower back.

Back pain usually referred to as acute if it has been present for less than a month and chronic if ii lasts for longer than a month. Young people are more likely to have brief acute episodes of back pain and chronic pain is more characteristic of older people.

• If you have chronic back problem, keep yourself warm and heat hot items.
• Include garlic in your daily diet.
• Boil ten tulsi leaves in one cup of water until the syrup is reduced to half a cup. Add salt to it after cooling. Take this mixture daily. For severe backache, take it twice a day.
• A self massage with eucalyptus oil is known to be beneficial. You could also use mustard oil.
• Guggulu is very helpful. Eat half a teaspoon twice a day after meals with warm water.
• Take a mixture of five black pepper corns, five cloves and one gram dry ginger powder in your tea at least twice a day.
• Gently massage the arching area.
• Ice can reduce the inflammation of back pain and after a few days switch to heat.
• Include a diet tomato, carrot, cabbage, cucumber, lettuce, and at least two lightly cooked vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, spinach, carrot, spinach, carrot, fruits.
• While sleeping, sleep on a firm mattress. Avoid sleeping face down.
• Do the exercise daily, 10-20 tomes each. Increase the number of times as your strength increases.