BACKACHE is the oldest agony that the mankind suffers from. In the prehistoric era, even the angels must have suffered from it. Though in the ancient Indian literature, no direct mention of this disease is made, it can be safely assumed that in the epic period of Mahabharata, Bhishma Pitamaha must have had some backache when he was lying on the bed of thorns. Whatever be the exact etiology of backache, it is for the medical scientist & the Pundits in the field to determine. Human back is a big Pandora box.
Causes for backache are many. They range from a thorn prick in the foot to prolapsed inter-vertebral disc in the spine. Even, a trauma to human pride can cause backache. It will be no exaggeration to compare the backache with an elephant that the six blind men wanted to know about. One of them called it a pillar, other called it a wall, third called it a rope, fourth it a flap of…
