Could Your Breasts Be The Cause Of Your Back Pain?

Introduction

A woman’s breasts are suspended on the chest wall with film-like, but strong tissue called Fascia. The breast is invested in two layers of this fascia. The layers fuse around the border of the breast. This suspension continues as a thick layer up to the collarbone. So in short, the breasts are hanging on the shoulder.

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Why can breasts strain the back?

Once you realize that breasts are hanging on the shoulder in front of the chest, it is not difficult to understand how they can cause back pain.

1. The large breasts when hanging in front can make a woman stoop or bend forward. This disturbs the natural position of the spine. When this continues for long, the backache starts.

2. A woman may try to compensate for the weight of the breasts by bracing herself. This is again unnatural. It disturbs the mechanical balance of shoulder and back muscles, thus ending in not only back or shoulder pain.

3. Very rarely, cancer in the breast can readily spread via the blood to backbones. This may cause backaches. The women who do not follow the breast self-examination routine, do not discover the small cancerous growth before it spreads in this way.

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Why do breasts become heavy?

There are many reasons why the breasts become large and heavy in girls and women:

• In young girls, when the breasts are undergoing development, there can be hormonal changes that stimulate the growth of breast tissue. This is more common in overweight girls. They develop this enlargement around the menarche, the period when they start having chums or menses. The girls not only become conscious but develop postural changes and back pain.

• Pregnancy and breast-feeding: The breasts undergo hormonal changes at the time of pregnancy– To prepare the breast for producing milk. This hormonal stimulation can be very strong as new lobules form in the breast. Such enlargement is often very heavy.  At the time of breastfeeding, the production and collection of milk can make the breast turgid, fully swollen, and heavy. This may cause strain on the spine, especially when the mother bends down to feed the child. That is the reason why doctors recommend that new mothers sit straight with a pillow under a folded thigh. 

In most women, the breasts involute or normalize after stopping breastfeeding after a few months. But in a few of them, they may not return to pre-pregnancy size. They can become saggy and remain large. 

• It is interesting to know that the heaviness of the breast also depends on how strong your back and shoulder muscles are to carry that weight. Plastic surgeons often see thin petite women with moderate or small and saggy breasts complain of back pain. In such women, the muscles are not strong enough to carry even a small weight.

• Normal sized but saggy breasts can produce strain on the back due to the pull they exert on the shoulder girdle.

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Why is back pain a cause of concern?

Women often neglect pains and aches here and there. But pain is the way your body tells you that something is wrong and you should try to fix it. 

The pain can worsen over days and months. With advancing age, your muscles become weaker and the pain will increase. There can be changes in your spine due to wear and tear over the years. 

The earlier you fix it the better it is. That way it prevents further changes in the body.

Conclusion

Whether heavy or not the breasts, large or small, saggy or not–can cause backaches.

Always do a monthly self-examination after periods are over with the palm of your hand to check for lumps. Cancer can be the most dreaded cause of back ache. But large breasts causing distress of your shoulders and spine can lead to problems at an older age if not corrected in time. For expert guidance and potential corrective measures, consulting with a board-certified surgeon is advisable