populus often complain of back pain, and this is natural: in this framework represent most of the load. Compared to other departments, lumbar and more subject to diseases.
In this article we try to understand what is the pain in the back in the lumbar region, what caused it and how to get rid of it.
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The lower back pain is known as lumbago or "back pain". Is sometimes so strong that man must take an unnatural position, the movement chained. Every movement causes the patient great embarrassment.
The pain can last for a couple of minutes and a couple of days. Then suddenly you come to a stop, but after a while you repeat with a new force. The man must get used to these waves of pain, that it does not hold completely, if not treated.
Why the back pain?
The cause can become the following factors:
- дительное stay at the wheel or working at a computer in a seated position.
- physical activity, emotional or nervous stress on the job;
- reinforcement of training in the gym (when performing exercises standing or sitting);
- the period of gestation and a difficult birth;
- problems with being overweight.
What happens is that the pain goes away by itself. This makes to understand what follows: if the loins are concerned on a regular basis — it is not excluded the development of a serious illness. And if you make the treatment can lead to serious consequences, to get rid of, which you have to with surgery.
Pain as a symptom of disease
There are two types of back pain: primary and secondary.
The primary syndrome of the pain occurs directly with the development of diseases of the spinal column. This can be:
- low back pain lumborum of the department;
- education the protrusion intervertebral disc;
- intervertebral hernia;
- spondylosis, or spondylarthrosis;
- diseases of the spine, such as kyphosis, scoliosis, kyphoscoliosis;
- arthritis;
- discit, osteomyelitis and tuberculosis of the spine.
Secondary pain syndrome occurs because of disease in other areas of the body. The cause of the following reasons:
- fractures;
- the tumor within the spinal canal;
- continuous muscle spasms;
- diseases of the internal organs;
- renibus lapides disease;
- complicated pregnancy;
- problems with the ovary.
Classification of pain
Back pain may be:
- strengths;
- sharp;
- sore;
- chronic;
- moved.
Severe pain
Severe pain appear osteochondrosis. The pain that follows a man who is always: when you walk, you sit, increases the severity, coughs, or sneezes. Sometimes it gives in the lower limbs. This is accompanied by numbness and a sensation of "tingling".
When lumborum-sacralis radicolite person feels a strong back pain and other parts of the body: buttocks, hips, pelvis, and you will be able to. The pain gets stronger in the process of the journey, the cough, the change of the position of the body.
In place of these symptoms, it is necessary to consult a neurologist. It is recommended that you sleep on a firm mattress to keep your spine in the correct anatomical position.
Acute pain
Acute pain in a man is manifest in the following cases:
- stiff neck;
- along with the discovery in an awkward position;
- the work with the weights;
- injury;
- sudden movements;
- subcooling of the body;
- a current of air.
To resolve these pains need to use gels and ointments, which have anti-inflammatory properties and analgesic properties. They will help you to establish the circulation of the blood and swelling. If after two to three days after the first manifestation of back pain does not pass, then it is time to consult a doctor.
In the early days, when the back pain is manifested particularly strong, it is best to stick to bed rest.
Aching pain
Aching, back pain can occur because of myositis or inflammation of muscle of the lower back. Man tied up in the movements, because we experience the feeling of pain when you make even the simplest movements.
For pain relief you first need to take a hot shower, and then wear warm clothes. Physical exercise is excluded. To facilitate the state, it is advisable to rub the ointment, which have tepidus effect. If the pain after three days does not pass, then it is best to consult a physician.
Chronic pain
Often the cause of these pains becomes deformavit spondylosis. A person with this disease is strongly concerned about the loins, can develop loss of sensation and weakness in the legs.
Chronic pain can also appear because of spondylitis, problems with the exchange of substances or of the tumors. To face these diseases in the home will not come out. Identify the cause in the early stages too hard. Therefore, the appearance of pain that will not go more than three days, and even amplified, it is worth to consult a doctor.
Move the pain
This type is distinguished by its "participation". The person feels pain in the back and believes that the reason of their — problems with the spinal column. But in reality moved the pain usually occur because of disease of the organs located in the pelvic area, tumors and diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract and the kidney.
In such cases it is necessary to seek medical attention?
In the presence of any trait from the list below should immediately take an appointment to the therapist.
- strong pain in the lumbar region does not go away after three days or more.
- the cause of the pain in the trauma of the vertebral column, of which you know (for example, for a couple of days before this, there has been an accident or fall on your back);
- it hurts the back, hip, leg and foot;
- because of the pain the loss of feeling in the buttocks, thighs, legs, feet, and groin area.
How to heal a sore back?
The patient usually found to be full of treatment, where attention is given, and lumborum field, and the backbone, and close to the authorities.
The treatment is divided into two types: conservative and quick.
The conservative treatment is a type of processing activity, in which the recovery of the patient is achieved by the application of drugs (pharmacological therapy), and through the use of alternative techniques .
The conservative treatment is of different types:
- taking special medication;
- physiotherapy;
- therapeutic exercise;
- the massage.
Treatment with medications
Creams and gels
Ointment — medication in a mild form, which is designed for application on the affected area of the body. The ointment is composed of two components: the basics of drug and active substances.
Ointment like medication is effective in the case in which you need as quickly as possible to improve the state of health at home. They help the person in relieving pain, inflammation, muscle spasms. Some have tepidus effect the lumbar, which is useful if you frigus.
As tepidus medicines excellent performance, have the chinese patches for the back.
There is the following classification of ointments:
- Anti-inflammatory ointments with effect analgesic. They have a cooling effect due to the fact that they contain menthol and lavender.
- Combined the ointment. Apply in the case of traumas, and distortions. In addition to an anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, have a healing effect obtained through the heparin and demethyl sulfoxide ointment.
- Medication with a vasodilation effect. Increase the flow of blood to the affected area.
- Chondroprotectors. Are used in diseases of the cartilage tissue. Thanks chondroitin sulfate data drugs to restore the joints.
Injection
Injection involves the introduction of a drug into a muscle or a vein to speed up the "delivery" of drugs to the inflamed place. It is important, in such a way that the needle was acute – neither the skin nor the muscles are not injured.
The distinguishing characteristics of the injection are:
- The speed of treatment.
- The effectiveness of the treatment. The active substance is not subjected to any degenerative processes in the gastrointestinal tract.
- The necessity of a professional approach to the introduction of fuel injection. Alone it is better not to do the injections — need every day to visit the doctor or call a paramedic to the home.
- It is necessary to appoint a technician. The appropriate remedy can be prescribed only the doctor. And many drugs without a doctor's prescription and not buy impossible.
Physical exercise and recharge
Physiotherapy — a method of treating diseases, and reduce the pain. THERAPY activities — recovery of the skeletal-muscular system, the improvement of the conditions of the patient and the correction of the posture.
When the back is sore it is recommended that you perform the following exercises:
- Starting position — lying. It is necessary to lift alternately left and right leg. The maximum lifting height is ten to fifteen centimeters. Lift the leg you must hold the weight for 10-15 seconds. The exercise is performed for 10-15 times for each leg.
- In supine position, need to bend the knees. The flexion angle — between 90 and 100 degrees. At the end of the exercise, the legs bent, you need to tilt left and right to the end. Exercise 15 times.
- Need to gently and slowly bending in different directions. During the execution of exercises for the back should be the most direct. Enough for 20 slopes in every direction.
- Starting position is standing on all fours. Do mahi opposed to each other with the hands and the feet (for example, if you use the right hand and left foot) at the same time. Is 10-15 times
- "The bridge". He got up on all fours belly to the outside, should arch your back upwards and hold in place such as you have strength enough. Perform the exercise it is necessary not less than 5 times.
Massage
Massage is a treatment method for the side impact on the active points of the man with the hands or with special tools. This method is perfectly tested in struggle with pain in the lumbar region. However, the massage only has to be done by a qualified technician, as a specialist in defective may bring damage to the health of the spinal column.
The benefits of massage:
- improves the blood flow to the affected part of the body;
- makes the muscles and ligaments more flexible and elastic;
- free from acute forms of pain;
- removes toxins from the body;
- creates a pleasant feeling because massage the sensitive areas of the body;
- it has a beneficial effect on mood.
The massage is best to combine with the adoption of a steam room or sauna. Particularly useful steam bath brooms of birch or oak, by increasing the tone of the body.
The heating and cryotherapy
This method of treatment refers to the popular medicine. Heating help with the pain, which are not associated with inflammation. For example, the traction, hernia, curvature of the spine or low back pain. Cryotherapy, on the contrary, it is effective when acute forms of inflammation.
Remember that! In the presence of infection in the body heating, it loses its positive effects. The increased flow of blood promotes the birth in the body of a strong man in pain, and the area of inflammation may increase.
The prevention of the disease
To avoid the recurrence of pain in the lumbar region, you should be sure to abide by three main rules:
- Do regular physical exercise
The exercises should be a general tonic and character. They act evenly on all muscle groups, including in the area of the back and abdomen. Them it is recommended to do every day at least twenty to thirty minutes. Suitable for morning exercises, jogging, swimming in the pool or a walk in fast pitch.
- Maintain the water balance-saline
In one day, the man is advised to drink up to three liters of liquid. For this measure of pure mineral water. Carbonated drinks, coffee and tea are bad for your kidneys and do not saturate the body.
The more water I drink in the morning. After 20.00 it is better to reduce the amount of water consumed, because this can result in swelling and sore kidneys.
- To eat and go to the doctor
Revise your daily diet. Reduce the amount of fats, fried and smoked foods or even exclude it – better to add useful products and dishes. The most useful is the one that is steamed or boiled. In the daily diet should be products, saturated of which the body needs vitamins, trace elements and minerals.
It is recommended that you submit to the visits, which includes a full examination of the body. Women need to regularly visit the gynecologist, men — urologist. The health of children must be controlled at the level of training institutions — organized by using clinical examination will help in time to reveal the disease and how you can before proceeding to the treatment.
The main condition to keep a healthy spine is a healthy lifestyle!
In addition to these three rules, there are still some that you should comply with:
- Observe the posture.
- Avoid awkward postures of sitting at work. The knees must be above the level of the basin. Sit need on a low stool or place a support under the feet. Better if it is put between the lumbar and backrest chairs (chairs), a small pillow.
- During the office work it is worth the move regularly. Every hour to take breaks for a small charge.
- Need to sleep on a hard orthopaedic mattress.
- Just lift weights. This is done via the flexion of the knee. You need to get down to an object, bend your knees, keeping your back straight.
- When you run the migration load it is worth to distribute the load between the two hands.
Conclusion
The sore back is a dangerous symptom, which is characterized by its variability.
Take care of your health, do not delay hiking to the doctor and lead an active lifestyle – then the problems with the spinal column do not have.