Every year, the number of patients who come to medical facilities to call for help with back pain. If you don't even do major physical activity on your skeleton, your activity includes a sedentary lifestyle - in the evening, your back still hurts.
Why does this happen and how do I get rid of persistent discomfort?
The cause of back pain can be hidden in a number of medical conditions. If you experience discomfort in the lower back, see a neurologist immediately. Persistent back pain and discomfort can lead to limited mobility and decreased activity.
In most situations, the cause of back pain can be diseases of the spine, diseases of important organs, occupational activities, trauma at birth. Only an experienced specialist can make an accurate diagnosis after the examination. In some situations, some additional diagnostic measures are prescribed.
According to statistics, back pain affects 50% of the population worldwide.
At the same time, in infants, such a phenomenon is a sign of pathology of the internal organs that occurs infrequently. In most cases, back pain occurs in elderly patients.
The pathogenesis of occurrence
As a rule, the causes of back pain are related to musculoskeletal defects. The less common pathogenesis mechanism, lies in a severe violation of the elements of the skeleton. Also, at some point in time, back pain can be triggered by the most dangerous diseases. Such as tumors and inflammation in the spinal cord, pathology of organs important to life - heart, liver, and the like.
And so why:
- Pregnancy period.
- Scoliosis.
- Pelvic bleeding.
- Damage to the aorta.
- Penetration of the infectious parasite into the muscle tissue of the spine and pelvis.
- Spreading of malignancies to the back.
- Deferred diseases are contagious. For example FLU.
- Various injuries.
The reason why it hurts
it may be due to several diseases:- bone necrosis;
- rhizitis; disc herniation
- ;
- bone cancer;
- fractures;
- sciatica and a host of other disorders.
Osteochondrosis
Back pain in osteonecrosis is of a painful nature. In addition, its symptoms are a crack in the spine, a feeling of discomfort in the lumbar region. After a certain time, numbness appears in the pathological area. This limits movement. Back pain is more apparent with exercise.
It also looks brighter when coughing, sneezing, any sudden movements. "Vaginal pain" haunts because the disc compresses nerve ends.
Back pain can last from a few minutes to a day. If the disease has spread to the chest, unpleasant sensations appear in the heart organs. Therefore, the patient does not always diagnose the disease, thinking that he has an angina. If you don't start treatment promptly, bone necrosis becomes chronic. The patient can not stand or sit for long, quickly tired, always wants to stay in the lying position.
3/4 of the population develops acute back pain symptoms that are precisely this disease. Moreover, the disease affects people over thirty years old. This is because as the years pass, the human spine is worn out and susceptible to various diseases.
If your back hurts and you suspect that you have osteonecrosis, you need to make an appointment with a psychiatrist. The doctor will perform diagnostic measures to make an accurate diagnosis, prescribe special treatment drugs, prescribe physical therapy exercises, and implement the necessary diet.
Prostatitis
Back pain can develop with ailments like sciatica. This disease is the result of compression of nerve ends, so changes of a different nature take place. This is accompanied by back pain, which occurs quite often.
Self-manifestation syndrome at the site of the disease. It can be permanent or temporary. The pain can spread to the arms and legs. In addition, the muscle mass becomes weak, the limbs become numb.
Removable disc
In the early stages of the disease, the nature of back pain is dull. It becomes more sharp when bending, rotating, and moving. Most often, a coma can appear on one of the lower extremities.
After a certain time, back pain starts to become acute. As a result, there is an overactive muscle function. This contributes to limiting movement. As a result, the patient's posture changes dramatically for the worse. As a rule, this pathology is formed in patients after forty years. At an earlier age, it manifests as a result of trauma.
This disease should be treated at an early stage of development. You need to seek help from an orthopedist or a psychiatrist. As a rule, the doctor uses CT to diagnose this pathology. As therapy, they resort to surgical intervention.
Diagnostic activity
If persistent severe back pain makes life difficult, go to hospital.
First of all, the specialist conducts an examination by touching the muscle tissue and spinal skeleton. He also evaluates the state of the central nervous system. The second step will be to test the blood and urine in the laboratory. This is necessary to eliminate the possibility of kidney disease.
X-rays are used as an additional diagnostic measure. This is necessary to eliminate the possibility of fractures of many different types, osteomyelitis and a number of other diseases.
If the X-ray results are not clear, additional CT and MRI of the spine will be prescribed. CT scan clearly shows all elements of the spinal skeleton, and the MRI - the state of the spinal cord and disc.
When performing the listed diagnostic methods, the presence of osteonecrosis is often revealed. It cannot even be called a disease, rather it is age-related changes in the spine.
In diagnostic measures, in most cases a number of diseases are found that form with age. Medical conditions can manifest even when the patient has never had back pain. Based on comprehensive diagnosis, a highly qualified specialist will diagnose and prescribe effective treatment.
Analgesic Therapy
For pain syndrome to leave you forever, you need to eliminate the cause of its occurrence. That means he will be cured of the illness that caused this pain. Neuroscientists or orthopedists choose individual treatments for each case.
But treating all kinds of medical conditions must be combined with cupping, acupuncture, as well as manual therapy.
Analgesic
As a rule, pain in any disease is reduced when the patient is lying down. But this is not recommended. When a person spends most of their time lying down, the disease begins to develop at a faster rate.
For some types of pathology, the specialist prescribes a bed rest regime. Obey your doctor's recommendations of course, but try to shorten this period as much as possible. The earlier you get out of bed, the better it is for your healing.
Don't overload your spine either. During that time, when you suffer from excruciating pain, try to avoid physical activity and wear special bras to immobilize it.
Pain relief includes conservative impact methods. The specialist prescribes drugs to be taken orally, as well as injections. Usually, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed such as Diclofenac, lornoxicam.
Muscle relaxants are also used: Tizanidine and Tolperisone hydrochloride. When dystrophy occurs, chondroprotectors are used. Your doctor may prescribe topical ointments and gels, which belong to the group of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
After a complete examination and correct diagnosis, your doctor may recommend physical therapy, including a dry heat start. As well as exercise physical therapy.
Manual therapy
If this treatment is done by a qualified handcraft operator in accordance with all the rules and regulations, the pain syndrome will get better in the shortest possible time. In addition, manual therapy helps to eliminate spinal defects.
Do not use independent treatment without the permission of a specialist. Only after performing diagnostic measures (X-rays and magnetic resonance imaging) can a neurologist recommend this method of exposure. This is due to the fact that therapy has its own contraindications.
Manual therapy should not be used if there is a hernia or if there is a defect in the spinal disc. It is not recommended for cardiovascular conditions, including after a heart attack or stroke.
Never use this treatment for cancer tumors.
In the case of thyroid disease and osteoporosis, this method is also not recommended. If the disease is already in a severe stage, it should not be treated with manual methods. And in conclusion, such a method to eliminate pain in the area of the spine cannot be used with poor blood clotting.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is also known as acupuncture. This treatment is often used for pain that arises from heavy pressure on the spine or when the patient is constantly under stress.
Experts say that acupuncture helps restore endorphins. The effects of these factors on the body are similar to those of morphine. As everyone knows, morphine is an addictive substance that can completely stop pain.
Chinese medicine experts believe that acupuncture can eliminate any kind of pain.
However, according to the research guidelines of Russian scientists, acupuncture should not be used in the following cases:
- with pathologies of the heart organ and its structure;
- for malignant and benign tumors;
- if you have surgery;
- for diseases of the kidney and liver organs;
- during pregnancy and lactation;
- with poor coagulation;
- in the presence of an acute infectious disease.
Final result
We have found that back pain and its causes have many essences, the treatments are individually selected for. As a rule, the manifestation of pain is directly related to the pathologies of the spine and spinal cord.
That's why when you have the tiniest symptoms, it's important to make an appointment with a neurologist.
As an additional consultation, which will be able to be examined by neurosurgeons, rheumatologists, oncologists, lung physicians, trauma doctors and many highly qualified specialistsother. To understand which doctor is needed, make an appointment with your therapist. He will suggest a follow-up action plan.
In addition to the specialists listed, in order to treat and prevent pain syndrome, they must seek the help of a massage therapist, reflexologist, chiropractor. The most important thing in therapy is not to eliminate the pain defect but to rule out the pathogenesis of the pain that occurs. We might take for example a complex therapy, consisting of two phases.
At an early stage - the use of a drug helps to get rid of pain due to its components: B vitamins and Diclofenac. Since Diclofenac is contained in the drug in minimal amounts, it is unlikely to cause unpleasant side effects.
The next step is to take in necessary amounts of vitamins B1, B6 and B12. It helps to restore the myelin sheath of the fibers, improves the transmission of impulses from the nerve ends. It also helps to eliminate pain and prevent relapses.
The timely detection of the disease and treatment is able to "put" the patient on hold in the shortest time possible. The sooner you seek the help of medical institutions, the more likely you are to have a fulfilling life. Any attempt to eliminate pain effects at home can lead to irreversible consequences.