Back pain is one of the most common reasons for doctor visits in the world. According to different data, with this Symptom at least once in your life confronted by 90% to 100% of adults. Back problems are on the list of leading causes for Disposals in the hospital.
Back pain can vary greatly. Sometimes it's just a result of fatigue or muscle strain, and sometimes a serious condition is signaled. Pain between the shoulder occur in the lower back, on the side of the spine, to give in the Hand, the leg can leaves. Often they lead to a disturbance of movements in the spine. In some people, "pulls", the other "Colet", which shoots a third in the back"". It is important to find in a timely manner and eliminate the cause, otherwise, with the time the Symptom can be exacerbated, so that you can turn people into disabled.
Of what diseases the pain occurs in the back?
Most back pains are not sharp, so disturbing for longer than three months. Rare longer, chronic pain.
The most obvious reason — the high physical exertion in untrained individuals. Had to wardrobe lift to the fourth floor in the house, where there is no lift — and the result the next day, the back starts to "whine".
Often starts back in pain after the Trauma. Most of the time it's just a flesh wound, but sometimes there are more severe damage to the spine and subluxations of the vertebral body compression fractures. The correct diagnosis helps in the Installation of the radiography,computed tomography.
It is believed that the most common cause for pain in the back — myofascial pain syndrome. In the muscles of the back areas of the voltage — the so-called trigger points arise. They become sources of pain.
The folk diagnosis for back pain, osteochondrosis. But many modern doctors raises questions. It is believed that the osteochondrosis is caused by degenerative changes in the spine. But such changes are almost all men after 40 years, however back doesn't hurt at all.
When degenerative changes occur in the intervertebral disc, its outer portion tightly stretched and destroyed, and the inner soft impact begins outside of the vertebra, along the nerve root and the spinal cord push to pain. This condition is called a ruptured disc or herniated disc.
Incorrect posture and scoliosis can also cause pain.
Osteoporosis is a relatively common Problem in women after the Menopause stage. Bone tissue breaks down, loses its density, especially in the vertebrae. A rare cause of pain in the back is a malignant tumor that compresses the spinal cord and the nerves.
Who is more likely to it comes to back pain?
There are some risk factors if they are present in your life, have you pains sooner or later with a higher likelihood of back and problems with the spine:
- A lack of exercise;
- overweight;
- Flat feet;
- excessive physical stress;
- frequent Stress, you create tension in chronic muscle.
Often lower back pain to occur or be reinforced during the pregnancy.
In which cases you need to see a doctor?
If the back hurts a lot and for long, in any case worth a visit, a doctor-neurologist. But some disturbing symptoms "scream", is a visit to the doctor is necessary:
• severe pain after trauma;
• Pain in the back in combination with the increase of the body temperature;
• Incontinence of feces and urine;
• severe pain, he is in the Hand, the leg, accompanied by numbness, tingling and other unpleasant sensations;
• severe pain that interferes with always, does not go away, even during leisure time.
How to diagnose the cause of pain in the back?
In most cases, the doctor-neurologist, the cause of the pain, according to the investigation can call, without the need for additional investigation. If the cause must be clarified, resort to the help of^
- X-ray diagnostics,
- Computed tomography,
- Magnetic resonance imaging,
- elektroneyromiografii (registration of electrical impulses in the nerves and muscles with the help of special electrodes),
- sometimes blood tests are required.
One of the easiest and fastest research that helps to evaluate the condition of your spine and discover pathology — x-ray. In General, recordings in two projections make front view and profile. Usually 4-6 adjacent vertebrae, in which, presumably, the pathology was.
X-ray of the spine helps in the identification of injuries of the vertebral (body, arches and transverse processes), the intervertebral discs and joints, injury (fractures, subluxations of the vertebrae), congenital malformations, osteophytes (bony growths of tissue), osteoporosis, and other changes.
How to treat back pain?
In the majority of cases of back pain caused by serious diseases. With an unpleasant Symptom with help can:
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
- Healing gymnastics.
- Massage.
- Physical Treatments.
- Many people will help manual therapy.
- With some chronic back to to cope with pain successfully with antidepressants.
The most common diseases that cause pain in the back, pretty open must be treated with medication. To run the operations rarely need to. Of course, in a number of pathologies, the longer put off a visit to the doctor, and the beginning of the treatment, the more changes in the spine grow, or grow and the opportunities on the table in the op.