If the title caught your attention, then you or someone close to you probably has been diagnosed with a pinched nerve. Pinched nerve is a condition that is usually associated with shoulder, neck or lower back pain. Doctors mostly just write down a prescription for you to take and expect your pain to go away after a few days.
But did you ever think about how a nerve can become “pinched?” Have you ever thought about the reason why this has happened, and get to the root of it? Now, to illuminate you, let’s start off with the fact that nerves in the body branch off in the spinal cord, then pass through various channels in the body before reaching their target. The first channel it passes through is a tiny cavity located in between two of your vertebrae. This canal is made up of two bone vertebrae along with a cartilage disc which separates them. When the vertebrae happens to be shifted, misaligned or displaced even just slightly, you can expect added pressure to be subjected onto the nerve.
Depending on the gravity of the pressure, the impingement in your nerve will cause pain. It may not be felt immediately, but in time the irritation caused by unnecessary squeezing will reach your pain threshold and you will start feeling the symptoms. These symptoms come in the form of sharp pain coming from the neck or the lower back which seems to radiate into your shoulders or your buttocks, uncomfortable pain at the source, or sore muscle pain.
If you are having these pains, you should act not only to stop the pain, but to remedy the damage being experienced by your nerves. If you do not act timely enough, you can risk the proper functioning of your body organs.