Backbone.

Back Pain is the second most common cause, after  “Common cold” , for people staying absent from work. And, everyone at some time or the other gets a backache. Some of us get off lightly, while the others have a very hard time fighting it. They have to live with the pain all their life, because this health ailment  can turn into  chronic back pain. And this severe back pain can be  crippling .

To understand the pathology of back pain, a simple explanation and some pictures are given for you to understand about the back bone or the vertebral column, the vertebra and the spinal cord.

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