Yet thousands of years ago, when the monkeys descended from the trees down the spine of the people was for the first time, the vertical load experience. This led to the fact that the conditions for its own diseases. In the age of modern high technology, the forced Position at work, and the General lack of exercise more and more often the question – what to do if your back hurts? Answers to this question one hears a lot of, but only the complex of the proper therapeutic and preventive measures will help you forget the pain the back.
As with any disease, pain in the back, the correct setting will need to determine the cause, it caused. In General, the data of the pain associated with the pathology of the spine. Therefore, a consultation with a neurologist, as well as the implementation of the x-ray examination, the best of them is CT or MRI. The implementation of the instrumental investigations allow to determine the level of the lesion of the spine and also the indications for surgical treatment the presence.
Drug therapy for the relief of severe pain
What pain do at the back? The fastest effect is due to drug therapy. Standard treatment includes:
- Drugs that relax muscles
- Anti-Inflammatory Painkillers
- Vitamin therapy
- Chondroprotectors
Drugs, which make it possible to remove the muscle cramps, the in the first few hours have occurred acutely in pain. The decrease in the muscle tension can be quickly removed, the resulting compression of the spinal roots, and lose weight with muscle spasms. This leads to a significant reduction in pain. Also just lifting the muscle spasm is the most important step in the treatment of the pathology of the spine.
Anti-inflammatory drugs can quickly relieve pain and inflammation, if you have back pain. They can be used in injections and tablets, and also externally as an ointment or Gel. Vitamin therapy. Strengthens and protects the fibers of the nerve against external harmful influences.
B vitamins "In" pulses, the ability to improve the implementation of the nerves, which helps to remove many of the negative phenomena, apart from the pain.
Chondroprotectors – preparations in the composition of chondroitin and they are those substances that in a healthy cartilage between the vertebral joints and disks. The inflammatory process celebrated their disadvantage.
Important! All medications should only friction on medical prescription. Otherwise, you can expect the development of complications, exceeding the required dosage, and other unpleasant moments.
Non-drug ways to cope with the disease
Unfortunately, the drug therapy of pain is not always available. In the case of Allergy, intolerance, severe concomitant diseases, pregnancy, many drugs do not use. And finally, the pregnancy, or concomitant diseases often provoke the development of pain. What to do when there are pains in the back, and the medication is contraindicated? Here are drug ways to help:
- Massage. Massage is one of the safest medical treatments. The only complete contraindication is the oncological pathology of the patient. Massage helps muscle spasms, Reflex, to reduce pain, and also improves the blood circulation in all tissues. This has a positive effect on the overall health.
- Physiotherapy is a safe treatment. The effect of electric currents, magnetic fields, subcutaneous administration of painkillers to notice can achieve results. Reduces muscle spasms, pain in the back in a very short time, weak muscles are strengthened and the nutrition of the tissue is significantly improved.
However, prior to the implementation of the procedure ask your doctor-physiotherapist for the identification of the most appropriate method of treatment, as well as the determination of possible contraindications (allergic reactions, oncopathology, the pathology of the thyroid gland, and the like).
- Manual therapy and acupuncture. These procedures are massaging is exposed near to, but on a more subtle level, networking reflexes.
Light painful irritation, displacement or stretching of the muscles reflexively launches a series of counter-reactions. The result is a reduction or elimination of pain, restoration of sensitivity. This is also a way to get the body in shape, if you are in constant pain back. However, the implementation of such a process only professionals can trust. In addition to the above-mentioned techniques of the therapeutic effects it is absolutely safe and highly effective method for control and prevention– physiotherapy.
Exercise for dealing with the pain and the prevention
Already the old Greeks used to say – life in motion. Professional physiotherapy in any case, the implementation of other includes reconstruction measures. But just the exercises back-to-back first-aid supplies, no access to other methods can pain. This is connected with the strengthening of the blood flow to the inflamed areas, which promotes faster excretion of toxic substances in the middle of the inflammation that cause pain. In this example, a couple of exercises:
- Exercise Cat. Standing on all fours, prognut arch the back, max down, then hold this Position for a few seconds. Repeat 3-4 times. This charge in the case of back pain is especially effective for the chest and lumbar spine.
- Standing with your hands clasp behind your back, grasp with one Hand the wrist of the other Hand, then push them to the back in the lumbar region. The exercise loosens tense back muscles, especially of the thoracic and transfers the load to the muscles of the arms.
- Sit on a chair, bend your head max down, slowly and very carefully. You try to reach the chin to the chest. If touched or pain is not possible, to gradually return the head to the starting position and a little. Repeat several times. Exercise effective the neck muscles relieved.
Every day you need to perform these exercises is that they hurt, and the back. By no fear in moderation of pain sensations. This is just a testimony to the fact that the weakened and inflamed areas impacted. If you allow for the weakened muscles of the back (especially in people with a sedentary lifestyle), physiotherapy, pursue the strengthening of the muscle corset and the reduction of the load on the spine.
The ideal of recreation, the swim is in the work of almost all the muscles of the body. Also in the revitalisation of the complex of showers and a waterfall shower to activate the reflex influence on the whole organism.
It is important to know that charging in low back pain will be effective only in the case of a regular and correct execution. To do exercises better to learn under the supervision of a doctor-specialist of physical therapy. Further, they can be independently done at home. Remember — the health of your back depends on you.