Does Acidity cause Back Pain or does Back Pain cause Acidity?
"Doctor, does back pain cause acidity?" This is a question I encounter every day in my out-patient department (OPD).
Before getting into the causes of back pain, let me explain the normal physiology of our body. To have a healthy pain-free body, the internal milieu of the body should have an alkaline pH that is more than 7.4. Our body is naturally designed with many organs or surfaces generating alkali - like the salivary glands which are 4 to 5 in number and the long tract (7m) of intestines. However, there is only one organ which generates acid. That is the stomach. Acid in normal quantities in the body helps decimate debris and throw it out of the body.
But, when the acid-alkali
"Doctor, does back pain cause acidity?" This is a question I encounter every day in my out-patient department (OPD).
Before getting into the causes of back pain, let me explain the normal physiology of our body. To have a healthy pain-free body, the internal milieu of the body should have an alkaline pH that is more than 7.4. Our body is naturally designed with many organs or surfaces generating alkali - like the salivary glands which are 4 to 5 in number and the long tract (7m) of intestines. However, there is only one organ which generates acid. That is the stomach. Acid in normal quantities in the body helps decimate debris and throw it out of the body.
But, when the acid-alkali