Back pain is one of the most frequent reasons for visits to physicians all over the world. According to various sources, with this symptom, at least once in your life, in front of from 90% to 100% of adults. The back problems are in the list of the main causes of departures to the hospital.
The back pain can be very different. Sometimes it is only the consequence of fatigue, or muscle fatigue, and sometimes indicates the severe disease. The pain can occur between the shoulder blades, back, to the side of the vertebral column, give the hand, the foot. Often lead to the breaking of the movements of the vertebral column. Some people "roll", the other "dicks", the third in the back "fires". Important time to find and eliminate the cause, otherwise, with time, the symptom may increase, as well, which will make the person with a disability.
In which diseases you experience back pain?
Often the back pain is sharp, i.e. it is not concerned more than three months. Less common are longer, the chronic pain.
The reason the most banal — to-high physical exercise not inexperienced people. Had to raise the cabinet on the fourth floor in a house where there is no lift and the result is that the next day back starts to "whine".
Often the back starts to hurt after the injury. Often it is only a bruise, but sometimes there are more severe damage to the vertebral column: the vertebral subluxations, compression fractures. The correct diagnosis helps to establish an x-ray,computerized tomography.
It is believed that the most common cause of back pain — myofascial pain syndrome. For the muscles of the back occur areas of tension — the so-called trigger points. They become sources of pain.
The most popular method of diagnosis for the back pain — back pain. But many physicians of today is the cause of problems. Considering that back pain occurs due to degenerative changes of the spine. But the changes there are almost all people after the age of 40, however, the back pain is not all.
If degenerative changes occur in the intervertebral disc, its exterior is the most dense part stretched and destroyed, and the soft inside starts protruding beyond the vertebrae, compressing the nerve roots and spinal cord, resulting in headaches. It is called a herniated disc.
Incorrect posture and scoliosis can also lead to headaches.
Osteoporosis is just a common problem among women in post-menopause period. The bone collapses, it loses density, including in the vertebrae. A rare cause of back pain — malignant tumours, which is squeezing the spinal cord and the nerves.
That the more often you experience back pain?
There are some risk factors if they are present in your life, you have, sooner or later, with high probability of back pain and spinal problems:
- sedentary life-style;
- the excess of weight;
- flat foot;
- excessive workload;
- frequent stress causes chronic tension of the muscles.
Often the back pain to occur or are intensified during pregnancy.
In such cases it is necessary to consult a doctor?
If your back pain is strong, long, in any case worth a visit to a neurologist. But some troubling symptoms "scream" that a visit to a doctor only need:
• severe pain after an injury;
• the back pain in combination with the increase of the body temperature;
• fecal incontinence and urinary;
• a sharp pain which gives in the hand, the foot, accompanied by numbness, tingling and other unpleasant sensations;
• severe pain, that always bothers, not even during the holidays.
How to diagnose the cause of back pain?
In most cases, a doctor neurologist may call the cause of the pain after the examination, without further investigation. If the cause is necessary to clarify, have resorted to the help^
- the x-ray
- computed tomography,
- magnetic resonance imaging,
- electroneuromyography (recording of the electrical impulses in the nerves and muscles with the help of special electrodes),
- are sometimes necessary blood tests.
One of the most simple and quick search, which allows to assess the state of the spinal column and to detect pathology — radiography. Usually the images are in two projections — front and profile. Capture, usually 4-6 adjacent vertebrae, which presumably occurred pathology.
X-ray of the spinal column helps to identify violations on the part of the vertebrae (bodies, arches and processes), of the intervertebral discs and joints, injury (fractures, subluxations, vertebral), congenital abnormalities, osteophytes (bone tissue proliferation), osteoporosis, and other changes.
How to cure back pain?
In most cases, the back pain is not caused by a serious illness. With the unpleasant symptom can be addressed through:
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory funds.
- Medical gymnastics.
- The massage.
- Physiotherapy.
- Many people helps chiropractic.
- With some chronic back pain can cope with antidepressants.
Often the disease, which can cause pain in the back, you are likely to medical care. The operations must be undertaken rarely. Of course, when a certain number of diseases, the longer they postpone the medical examination and the beginning of the treatment, the more they grow, the changes in the spine, as a result, are growing, and the opportunity to be on the table in the operating room.