Back pain is extremely common and it comes in a wide variety of symptoms and locations. However, in the majority of cases, your back pain is very likely to be of muscular origin. Muscular pain is often misdiagnosed by western physicians, and all they have to offer are analgesics, anti-inflammatory drugs, and muscle relaxants, which only address the symptoms and are injurious to your health.  Often, they will referred you out for physical therapy, which is inadequate for chronic pain. Some people will seek for alternative therapies, the most common being acupuncture and chiropractic. Those two modalities are not appropriate when it comes to treating chronic muscular disorders, and they only help easing the symptoms  (the pain), which eventually comes back in view of the fact that the root of the problem (chronic muscular tension) has not been addressed. Deep tissue massage therapy is the answer to chronic muscular disorders with or without pain. The trouble is that most massage therapists who claim to do deep tissue massage, Rolfing, etc.,  do not work deep enough, or they do not know what they are looking for. So, if you suffer from back pain, and you have experienced little or no improvement in your condition, or your pain keeps coming back after a few weeks or months, now you know why.

Jordi Capdet, L.Ac.