Every year, the number of patients who go to medical facilities for help complain of back pain. If you do not even perform huge physical activity on the skeleton, your activity consists of a sedentary lifestyle - in the evening you still have back pain.
Why does this happen and how do you eliminate the constant discomfort?
The causes of back pain can be hidden in a number of pathologies. If you experience an unpleasant sensation in the lumbar region, immediately consult a neurologist. Persistent back pain and discomfort can lead to limited mobility and reduced activity.
In most situations, the cause of back pain can be spinal disorders, disorders of vital organs, as a result of professional activity, birth trauma. Only an experienced specialist can make an accurate diagnosis after an examination. In some situations, a number of additional diagnostic measures are prescribed.
According to statistics, back pain affects 50% of the world's population.
At the same time, in early childhood, such a phenomenon is a sign of pathologies of internal organs that occur rarely. In most cases, back pain affects elderly patients.
Pathogenesis of occurrence
Typically, the causes of back pain are associated with musculoskeletal abnormalities. Less common pathogenesis, which lies in serious violations of the elements of the skeleton. In addition, at times, back pain can be triggered by the most dangerous ailments. Such as tumors and inflammations of the spinal cord, pathologies of organs important for life - the heart, liver, etc.
And so, the reason:
- The gestation period.
- Scoliosis.
- Pelvic hemorrhage.
- Aortic injury.
- Penetration of infectious parasites into muscle tissue of the spine and pelvis.
- Spread of malignant neoplasms in the back.
- Delayed infectious diseases. For example FLU.
- Various injuries.
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may be in the presence of certain diseases: osteochondrosis- ; radiculitis
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- intervertebral hernia;
- bone cancer;
- fractures;
- sciatica and a wide variety of other disorders.
Osteochondrosis
Back pain in osteochondrosis is painful in nature. Also, its symptomatology is a crunch in the spine, an unpleasant sensation in the lumbar region. After some time, numbness appears in the area of pathology. This constrains movement. Back pain is more pronounced with exercise.
It also appears brighter when coughing, sneezing, sudden movements. The "hellish pain" haunts because of the compression of the nerve endings by the discs.
Back pain can last from a few minutes to a day. If the disease has spread to the chest, then unpleasant sensations appear in the heart organ. Therefore, patients do not always guess the disease, thinking that they are suffering from angina pectoris. If you do not start treatment in a timely manner, osteochondrosis becomes chronic. The patient can not stand or sit for a long time, quickly gets tired, he always wants to lie down.
3/4 of the population who develop symptoms of acute back pain suffer from this disease. In addition, the disease affects people over the age of thirty. This is due to the fact that as the years go by, the human spine wears out and becomes susceptible to various pathologies.
If your back hurts and you suspect osteochondrosis, you should make an appointment with a neurologist. He will take diagnostic measures to make an accurate diagnosis, prescribe special drugs, prescribe physiotherapy exercises and put him on the necessary diet.
Radiculite
Back pain can form with a disease such as sciatica. This disease is the result of compression of nerve endings, as a result of which changes of a different nature occur. All this accompanies back pain, which occurs quite often.
The syndrome manifests itself at the site of the disease. It can be permanent or temporary. The pain can radiate to the arms and legs. In addition, muscle mass weakens and limbs become numb.
Herniated disc
In the initial stage of disease development, back pain is dull in nature. It becomes more when tilting, rotating, sudden movements. Often lethargy can appear in one of the lower extremities.
After a while, the back pain begins to become severe. As a result, there is a strong overload of the muscles. This contributes to the limitation of movement. As a result, the patient's posture changes significantly for the worse. As a rule, this pathology is formed in patients after forty years. At an earlier age, it manifests itself as a result of injury.
This disease should be treated in the early stages of its development. You should seek help from an orthopedist or neurologist. Usually, the doctor uses computed tomography to diagnose this pathology. As therapy, they resort to surgery.
Diagnostic activities
If severe and persistent back pain makes life difficult for you, go to the hospital.
First, the specialist conducts a palpation examination of the muscle tissue and skeleton of the spine. It also assesses the condition of the central nervous system. The second step will consist of blood and urine tests in the laboratory. This is necessary to eliminate the risk of pathology in the renal organ.
X-ray is used as an additional diagnostic measure. This is necessary to eliminate the risk of fractures of various types, osteomyelitis and a number of other ailments.
If the x-ray shows ambiguous results, CT and MRI of the spine are also prescribed. The CT scan clearly shows all the skeletal elements of the spine, and the MRI - the condition of the spinal cord and discs.
When carrying out the listed diagnostic methods, the presence of osteochondrosis is often revealed. It can't even be called a disease, but rather age-related changes in the spine.
In diagnostic measurements, in most cases, certain diseases appear with age. Pathologies can be revealed even if the patient has never had back pain. Based on the results of a comprehensive diagnosis, a highly qualified specialist makes a diagnosis and prescribes effective treatment.
Pain treatment
In order for pain syndrome to leave you alone forever, you need to eliminate the cause of its occurrence. In other words, he will be cured of the disease that causes this pain. A neurologist or orthopedist chooses individual therapy methods for each case.
But the treatment of all types of pathologies is associated with cupping, acupuncture, as well as manual therapy.
Pain relief
As a rule, the pain in any disease goes away when the patient takes a supine position. But it is not recommended. When a person spends most of the time lying down, the disease begins to develop at a faster rate.
For certain types of pathologies, a specialist prescribes the observance of bed rest. The doctor's recommendations, of course, should be followed, but try to shorten this time as much as possible. The sooner you get out of bed, the more beneficial it will be for your healing.
Don't overload the spine either. During this period while you are tormented by pain, try to avoid physical exertion and wear a special medical brace for fixation.
Pain relief includes conservative influencing methods. The specialist prescribes drugs for oral administration, as well as for injections. Usually, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed, such as diclofenac, lornoxicam.
Muscle relaxants are also used: tizanidine and tolperisone hydrochloride. When dystrophic processes occur, chondroprotectors are used. The doctor may prescribe topical ointments and gels, which belong to the group of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
After a complete examination and an accurate diagnosis, the doctor may recommend physiotherapy, which consists of warming up with dry heat. As well as a set of exercises for physiotherapy exercises.
Manual therapy
If this method of treatment is carried out by a qualified manual operator in accordance with all rules and regulations, the pain syndrome will disappear as soon as possible. In addition, manual therapy helps to eliminate spinal defects.
Such treatment should not be used independently, without the permission of the treating specialist. It is only after the diagnostic measurements carried out (radiography and magnetic resonance imaging) that the neurologist can recommend this method of exposure. This is due to the fact that the therapy has its own contraindications.
Manual therapy should not be used if there is a hernia or if there is a defect in the vertebral discs. Its use is not recommended in cardiovascular pathologies, including after a heart attack or stroke.
Never use this treatment for cancerous tumors.
For thyroid pathologies and osteoporosis, this method is also not recommended. If the disease is in the stage of exacerbation, then refrain from manual therapy. And in conclusion, such a method of eliminating pain in the spinal region can not be used with poor blood coagulation.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is also called acupuncture. This method of treatment is generally used for pain that results from a heavy load on the spine or when the patient is in frequent stressful situations.
Experts suggest that acupuncture helps restore endorphins. The effect of these elements on the body is similar to that of morphine. As everyone knows, morphine is a narcotic substance that can completely suppress pain.
Chinese medicine professionals believe that acupuncture can eliminate pain of all kinds.
Yet, guided by research by Russian scientists, acupuncture cannot be used in the following cases:
- with pathologies of the heart organ and its structures;
- for tumors of a malignant and benign nature;
- if you are having surgery;
- for diseases of the renal organ and the liver;
- during gestation and during lactation;
- with poor blood clotting;
- in the presence of acute infectious diseases.
Final output
We have found that back pain and its causes are varied in nature, treatment is selected individually for each. As a rule, the manifestation of pain is directly related to pathologies of the spine and spinal cord.
This is why, at the slightest symptom, you must make an appointment with a specialized neurologist.
As an additional consultation, examination by a neurosurgeon, rheumatologist, oncologist, pulmonologist, traumatologist and many other highly qualified specialists will be possible. To understand which doctors are needed, make an appointment with your therapist. He will propose another action plan.
In addition to the listed specialists, for the treatment and prevention of pain syndrome, they resort to the help of a massage therapist, reflexologist, manual operator. The most important thing in therapy is not the elimination of the pain defect, but the exclusion of the pathogenesis because of which pain occurs. We can take as an example a complex therapy, which consists of two stages.
At the initial stage - the use of a drug that eliminates pain due to its components: vitamin B and diclofenac. Since diclofenac is contained in the drug in minimal amounts, it is not able to cause unpleasant side effects.
The next step is to use the drug, which contains vitamins B1, B6 and B12 in the required amount. It helps to restore the myelin sheath of the fiber, improves the transmission of impulses from nerve endings. It also eliminates pain and prevents its recurrence.
Timely detection of the disease and its treatment can get the patient back on his feet as quickly as possible. The sooner you seek help from medical institutions, the more likely you are to lead a fulfilling life. Any attempt to get rid of the effect of pain at home can have irreversible consequences.