Mid-Back Pain
Mid-Back “Knife” Pain
No other form of back pain gets someone’s attention like mid-back “knife” pain. While acute low back pain can lock a person into a downward bent position, mid-back pain not only locks a person up, but it can also take a person’s breath away. This can make the person feel as if they are having a heart attack. However, the pain is not in the chest, but the rib and shoulder blade area of the back. Every breath and movement causes pain. Unlike other back pain, people with mid-back pain find it difficult to obtain a comfortable position in which to rest or ease their pain.
Sharp mid-back pain may be caused by a variety of overlapping problems. Ribs may become jammed into the spine by a forceful twisting action or by remaining in a twisted position for long periods of time. Sleeping in an awkward position with the hands or arms behind the back can be a cause of mid-back pain. Furthermore, over-strained muscles, stress, a “pinched” nerve caused by spinal subluxation or advancing spinal degeneration may also cause sharp mid-back pain. All of these symptoms are treatable by your chiropractor. Bed rest, ice, heat or muscle relaxants can help, but these do NOT get to the source of the problem. And when the source is not corrected, this pain re-occurs again and again. Only when the deeper spinal problem is corrected will the problem go away and stay away. Only chiropractors treat the spine in this manner.