We often hear people being given the statement, ‘it’s just a bit of muscle stiffness, it’ll go away on its own’ but this is often a precursor to long-term back pain. It’s not very helpful to discount it as a muscle problem, as it ignores the underlying cause. The muscles are reactive structures and they will react to whatever is going on underneath.
When the rib joints become irritated, it can give you sharp pain that often seems like it’s coming from the chest, although it can affect the front or back of the body. The ribs are joints with synovial fluid. On the back they attach to the thoracic spine, that are more flexible.
A normal healthy disc has two main parts, a fluid-filled centre and a collection of ligaments around the side. It’s the fluid that gives the disc height, which helps to resist compression.
This antalgic posture can often be without you even noticing you’re happening, it might be that you’re leaning off to one side and usually you lean away from the herniation or disc bulge.
Hypermobility is something that can work both for and against the person with a lower back injury. Understanding the ways in which it can impair our recovery in the early days is most important as so often those with hypermobility or those that are very flexible fall into the same traps over and over again.
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