Summary

• Pain is there to protect you, not to tell you how badly injured you are
• Pain is influenced by all sorts of things, and the back itself is only one of these
• The exact problem in the back does not change what you should do
• The best thing you can do for yourself and your back is to stay active and get back to doing what you normally do as soon as possible
• Your back is strong and you are not going to damage it by using and moving it
• Back pain is very common, so your back may hurt again in the future. This does not mean that your back never healed, it just means that you have back pain again. The same things which help you this time will probably help you next time.