The two are bound together. The word 'emotion' literally means to move. Your muscles reflect your emo-tional problem. Besides this, some psychological conditions are associated with a risk of chronic back pain. These include anxiety, depression, hypochondria and work dissatisfaction.
Most back pain comes on rather slowly.
Usually there will be some warning signs, generally in the form of muscle twitches or aches that are present several days before disabling pain occurs. However, when a person engages in too strenous an activity, the pain will usually occur at that instant or the next morning, and can be most acute. During an acute attack, the pain is severe and sharp. Movement always carries the risk of pain, perhaps this pain is so great that the patient becomes frozen where he stands. The patient may find his body twisted into odd shapes by the attack.