Tag: Back

Back problems are often misdiagnosed. Your pain may have nothing to do with your spine. Theres a good chance it may be nothing more serious than referred pain from myofascial trigger points (tiny contraction knots) in your back muscles, or even in muscles some distance away.

Pain in your low back, for example, can be referred from trigger points in a number of muscles, such as the gluteus medius in your buttocks, as shown in the drawings.