Will regional anaesthesia cause back soreness?

One question I'm often asked is won't the epidural give me a backache? And this is a story and a question that's been discussed for a long time and a question that's been asked many many times. There used to be an assumption that for women having epidurals for pain relief in labour, which is exactly the same form of epidural that you would have as an epidural to provide a regional anaesthetic for an operation, doesn't it damage my back because I had an epidural and my back was bad afterwards and very extensive studies were performed to find out what it was that actually caused the backache. The honest answer is that a lot of women get backache after having babies, after being in labour for a long time and after caring for a small baby and the epidural competently performed does not add to that chance of backache. If you have a very severely abnormal back or you've had back surgery you'll have to discuss this with your anaesthetist or other healthcare professional before the procedure in case they advise that there may be a higher chance of problems because of your previous back problems but for people like me who have a stiff old back it's not a problem at all the spinal epigelon will not give you backache afterwards there are situations where you may not where you may be worried about it but i can be absolutely you're assuring that a competently performed procedure does not give you a bad back.