For a lot of people, low back pain is an occasional event.
A soreness develops and irritates them for day or two before going away on its own.
Many of these people neglect the cumulative effects of these minor episodes.
The erroneous belief is that because the pain went away, the problem resolved.
In reality, the pain went away because the body adjusted to the new and worse alignment of the spine.
The underlying cause is never addressed.
Most people find the episodes get more frequent and painful as the years go on.
Eventually, it never goes away and becomes chronic back pain.
The kind you wake up and go to be with.
If you understand why lower back pain gets chronic, you can stop it from ever doing so, You can stop the damage from becoming severe, making the over all trip to pain freedom a lot shorter.
Back pain gets chronic when you ignore pain or let it go away on its own without doing anything to correct the problem your body is trying to let you know about.
Exercise is the best way attack the problem.
Nothing fancy is required, just a basic extension exercise done a couple of times a day should knock out most minor back pain pretty quickly.
When done at bed time it should also help minimize morning back pain as well.
Extension exercise is the best way to ensure your back condition does not deteriorate any further.
Failure to take this most basic step to correct the reason your back started hurting is the main reason why low back pain gets chronic.