It is believed that this disease is not curable and if he goes. But in reality, everything can be much more difficult. What can be the causes of pain in the back and some of them need medical care?
Muscle load
Approximately 85% of cases chronic or occasional back pain associated with excessive loads on the back. Don't be surprised: even if you do not exercise, it is not the absence of gravity pulls and does not dig in the bed all day, the back muscles still experiencing the daily tensions. When you are sitting, for example, in front of a monitor, they have to keep most of your body. Therefore, doctors recommend to those who work behind a desk, how can it be "deeper" to sit on a chair, leaning on the back.
However, the diagnosis of "fatigue back" no one will. As a general rule, pain in the back refers to "uncertain cause" (this can be a give temporary muscles and ligaments) and the treaties of peace and the correct posture on the chair. If the pain does not pass after 2 weeks or is repeated regularly, is to ask your doctor to do a more detailed examination.
A compression fracture
According to data from the American medical association, the diagnosis is about 4% of patients with back pain. A compression fracture — fracture of a vertebra, most frequently in the elderly and in patients with osteoporosis. In this disease, the bones become less dense and can break only under the pressure of the body weight. Then fractures as a result of an accident in this category are not included. And this means that the patient may not notice how to break out of its vertebra — talk only strong pain annoying.
Are treated as fractures severe sheets mode, and a complex of drugs that aim to reduce the pain.
Herniated disc
Hernia — is a fairly common problem, often occurring in people after 40 (although it can be diagnosed at a younger age). The reason — the degeneration of the muscles and connective tissues. With age, your spine as a "deposit" — the vertebrae are pressed closer, the intervertebral discs, flattened on disc and bulge beyond the vertebral column. Live — the same compression of the nerve roots, leading to a sharp pain in the back and legs.
As a general rule, the location of the pain the doctor can suggest where can be the hernia. But to confirm the diagnosis and accurately determine the location of the hernia, is usually performed, tomography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Spondylolisthesis
This condition occurs in 5-7% of the population, although it is diagnosed much less often (very often in the lumbar chronic pain, people just do not pay attention). Spondylolisthesis at the foot of one of the vertebrae (usually the 5th lumbar) is deformed, whereby the vertebrae, and the "strip" at the bottom, projecting at the same time, forward or backward. The corresponding section of the vertebral column becomes as a scale, and not on the pole.
All the same symptoms — pain in the lower back, sometimes in the buttocks, rarely can give to the lower limbs. Derivation of the vertebra can compress the nerve roots extending from the spinal cord, leading to pain.
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Another name of this disease — ankylosing spondylitis. More common in men, and as elders and young people. Women represent less than one-sixth of all patients.
Mainly manifests with pain and stiffness in the low back, aching pain in the thighs, the constant tension of the muscles of the back. The reason — the inflammation of the joints and of the ligaments of the vertebral column. It is a chronic progressive disease, i.e., the hand in the lumbar area of the spine, the inflammation extends to the neck and chest. In addition, with the passage of time can see the connective tissues of the internal organs, the cardiovascular system, the kidneys, the lungs and even the eyes. However, the disease rarely occurs — the "set" of approximately 0.35 with patients.
The cancer
About 0.7% of the patients with back pain and later found tumors. This can be the cancer, initially localized in the spine, or a tumor, metastases in other organs. As you can see from the statistics, these cases are extremely rare: usually the cancer "capture" in the other symptoms, and if you have not had cancer previously, the back pain is unlikely to announce this terrible diagnosis.
Infectious defeat of the vertebral column
One of the rare causes of back pain (0,01%). Usually the infection starts with the spinal column and reaches the lumbar spine through the bloodstream from other parts of the body — from the urinary tract, for example. Like other infectious lesions, usually accompanied by an increase in temperature. However, the combination of fever + back pain" does not mean that you train in the spinal column. Normal flu, for example, can cause the same symptoms.