Introduction
Back pain can be debilitating. Severe back pain can dominate your life, making you miserable and unfit for work.

Back pain can be acute (short lived) or chronic (with you the rest of your life, or a long time).

Back pain has as many origins as those suffering from it. Common causes are injury, poor posture, overuse, overstraining, inadequate diet making you a candidate for osteoporosis, lack of natural sunlight on naked skin (vitamin D deficiency), at times of ovulation or menstruation, during pregnancy, family weakness.

Occupations that can result in higher levels of back pain than normal, include farriers and gardeners, both of whom bend and lift constantly throughout their working day.

The mainstream treatment of back pain frequently doesn’t help. All you are often offered is pain management or surgery. Neither of these solutions treat the cause, which will be unique to you. Pain management normally has bad side-effects, loading your liver and increasing your toxicity. Often, it only dulls the pain.

Back surgery is not without enormous and paralysing risks and has no guarantee of sorting the problem out.

Appropriate exercises can help, but rarely cure.

You’re left feeling you’re between a rock and a hard place.

However, the natural alternatives are very real and effective. Homoeopathy in particular can help enormously, if not totally, over time.

Before looking at the homeopathic treatment of back pain, let’s look at the possible causes again, as there’s no point in having any treatment if you are causing the problem, all-be-it unconsciously.

Diet
Diet is critical to your good health. If your diet consists largely of processed food, with a high content of animal protein, a low content of fresh produce, has a high intake of soft drinks and/or alcohol, then you will be deficient in the nutrients essential to remain healthy.

Processed food is almost devoid of any useful nutrients. It also contains harmful and damaged foods, especially damaged cholesterol and refined sugar.

A diet high in animal protein leads you towards osteoporosis. All animal protein needs calcium to digest. Meat always comes complete with the bones for complete digestion. Humans have removed these bones for easier eating. But your body needs the calcium. So this is robbed from your bones and teeth to digest the meat.

Refined sugar is the same. It needs calcium to digest.

Milk is not easily digested after weaning, so is not a suitable food for children or adults alike. And dairy is not species specific, adding other problems.

Dairy is best left to the newborn of the animal who supplied it.

So a diet high in sugar (in practically all processed foods) and animal protein will lead to osteoporosis in many (most?) people.

By changing your diet around, to include a high content of fresh produce, you may reverse your osteoporosis and so your back pain.

Although this change of diet is essential for future health, it will be slow to help your current problem.

Vitamin D Deficiency
In these days of strong fears of developing skin cancer, the pendulum has swung the other way. Now people are not getting enough natural sunlight to get their daily requirements of vitamin D.

Like water, salt, and possibly everything else in life, natural sunlight is essential to life but can also kill, depending on the amount you have. You need a reasonable amount of natural sunlight. This will vary, depending on your location in the world, the season and your sensitivity to the sun. An hour a day may be sufficient at the height of summer in a hot climate such as Australia - avoiding the intense midday sun.

More is necessary in cooler climes and in winter.

Research many years ago indicated that the cause of skin cancer was enormously increased when sun-block or sunscreen was used. The better alternative is to get protection from within. The consumption of plenty of dark green and red fruit and vegetables provides you with all your natural sun block.

Any sensitivity to the sun can be helped with homeopathic treatment.

The synthetic form of vitamin D, in supplement form, doesn’t even come close to the real thing - the sun. And the sun is free! Any synthetic supplement is out of natural balance. While it may help in the short term, prolonged use may be harmful.

Injury, Ovulation, Menstruation, Pregnancy, Family Weakness
Back pain during ovulation, menstruation or pregnancy, although seemingly connected to a hormone imbalance, is not necessarily so. Times of hormonal change may simply tip an already overloaded system into expression.

All these problems can have permanent solutions under good homeopathic treatment.

Homeopathic treatment is one of the most effective treatments for injury, one of the fastest and one of the most permanent. Instant improvement can be seen with the appropriate treatment. Pain can evaporate. Healing can speed up. And complete healing results in total resolution, making the prospect of arthritis in later years a condition for others.

Good homoeopathic treatment has the potential to resolve every kind of back pain, from whatever cause. Permanently.