But both mornings and backs are unusually vulnerable to some common minor sources of pain. Why? Is sleeping dangerous? Probably not: waking up with back pain rarely indicates a serious problem. (And neck pain, and headaches, and even more. “I woke up with it” is an amazingly common description of how low back pain started. “Sleep breaks” may also be a helpful trick. There is no ideal mattress for back pain except, maybe, just a good quality new one. And improving sleep posture is probably the least valuable and most tricky, but it’s worth doing your best to stay in a “neutral” position, and particularly avoiding face down sleeping. Muscle pain treatment can be much more complex - both an opportunity and a challenge - but may also yield to simple massage techniques and heat.
Vitamin D deficiency is easy to test for and fix, of course.
And morning back pain is probably never psychosomatic.įighting inflammation is simple but not easy: it’s mainly about being as fit and healthy as possible, which includes almost any lifestyle medicine approach, such as a heart-healthy diet (including perhaps fasting), reducing anxiety, better sleep, and avoidance of exercise and metabolic extremes. Nocturnal disc swelling often gets the blame for morning back pain, but it shouldn’t- it’s too speculative. Other usual suspects include vitamin D deficiency, garden variety muscle pain, fibromyalgia, tissue stress from awkward sleeping postures, and - of course - just poor quality sleep. This common issue can be hard to distinguish from its much rarer cousin, full-blown “inflammatory back pain,” which is more likely to actually wake you up. Most morning back pain is probably caused by low-grade inflammation which ramps up with age (“inflammaging”) and is notoriously worse at the start of the day.
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