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- Muscle stiffness or tightness.
- Numbness or tingling in the belly, chest, legs, or arms.
- Chest pain.
- Poor for controlling bladder or bowel.
Middle back pain can occur for various reasons, such as:
- Problems affecting structures that support your back such as; muscle strain, overuse, or injury to discs, muscles, and ligaments of your spine.
- Poor, bad posture. Repeated pressure on the back increases the risk of back pain, this is particularly true if you have poor posture. With poor posture, the structures of your spine need to work harder to keep you balanced. The challenges mount if you’re obese.
- A vertebrae fracture. Back pain associated with this fracture usually gets worse with physical activity (when you move).
Furthermore, middle back pain could be probably caused by certain health conditions. The common ones include herniated disk (it can drive more pressure on your spinal nerves), osteoarthritis (having this arthritis can make a vertebrae fracture more likely), and myofascial pain (a disorder affecting the connective tissue of muscles).
How about hiatal hernia?
Back pain, including pain in the middle of the back, is not a specific symptom of hiatal hernia. But this doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to have back pain with the disease.
Here are a few factors associated with hiatal hernia that might contribute to cause back pain.
Acid reflux (heartburn)
As mentioned, heartburn is common in people with hiatal hernia since the condition is often associated with GERD. Although heartburn pain is typically felt behind the breastbone, it could be painful enough to radiate elsewhere in the body such as the neck, throat, or even the back.
Obesity
Being obese can factor into many types of hernia, including hiatal hernia. And if you’re being obese, this can put you at high risk of having back pain!
Abdominal or chest pain
Hiatal hernia pain felt in the abdomen or chest, though not common, could also be severe enough to affect the back.
For other possible causes of back pain in people with hernia, find out more in this previous post!
