Every year, the number of patients who complain of back pain complains to health care facilities. If you don’t do massive physical activity even on the skeleton, your activity consists of a sedentary lifestyle - your back still hurts in the evening.
Why is this happening and how can permanent inconveniences be eliminated?
The causes of back pain can be hidden in many pathologies. If you have any discomfort in the lumbar region, see a neurologist immediately. Prolonged back pain and discomfort can lead to limited mobility and decreased activity.
In most situations, the cause of back pain can be due to diseases of the spine, diseases of vital organs, professional activity, birth trauma. Only an experienced professional 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 population worldwide.
However, in infancy, such a phenomenon is a sign of rare pathologies of the internal organs. In most cases, back pain affects elderly patients.
Pathogenesis of occurrence
The causes of back pain are usually associated with musculoskeletal disorders. Less common is pathogenesis, which lies in severe damage to skeletal elements. At some points, back pain can be triggered by even the most dangerous diseases. These include tumors and inflammation of the spinal cord, pathologies of vital organs — the heart, liver, and the like.
And why:
- Period of pregnancy.
- Skoliosis.
- Pelvic hemorrhage.
- Aortic injury.
- Infectious parasites enter the muscle tissue of the spine and pelvis.
- Spread of malignant tumors in the back.
- Deferred infectious diseases. For example, FLU.
- Various injuries.
The reason cn hurts
in the presence of certain diseases may be:- osteochondrosis;
- radiculitis;
- intervertebral hernia;
- bone cancer;
- fractures;
- Sciatica and many other disorders.
Osteochondrosis
In osteochondrosis, back pain is painful. In addition, his symptoms are crunching of the spine, an uncomfortable feeling in the lumbar region. After some time, numbness appears in the pathological zone. This restricts movement. Back pain is more pronounced with exercise.
Also appears brighter when coughing, sneezing, or suddenly moving. It was accompanied by "hellish pain" because the nerve endings were compressed by plates.
Back pain can last from several minutes to a day. When the disease has spread to the chest, unpleasant sensations appear in the heart organ. Therefore, patients do not always suspect the disease, thinking they have angina pectoris. If you do not start treatment on time, osteochondrosis will become chronic. The patient cannot stand or sit for a long time, gets tired quickly, always wants to be in a supine position.
3/4 of the population with symptoms of acute back pain suffers from this disease. Moreover, the disease affects people over the age of thirty. This is due to the fact that over the years, the human spine wears out and becomes susceptible to various pathologies.
If your back hurts and you suspect osteochondrosis, an appointment should be made with a neurologist. He will take diagnostic measures to make an accurate diagnosis, prescribe special medications, prescribe physiotherapy exercises, and arrange for the necessary diet.
Radiculitis
Back pain can develop with a condition such as sciatica. This disease is the result of compression of nerve endings, resulting in other types of changes. All of this is accompanied by back pain, which occurs quite often.
The syndrome is manifested at the site of the disease. It can be permanent or temporary. Pain can radiate to the arms and legs. In addition, muscle mass weakens and limbs become numb.
Herniated disc
Back pain is dull in the early stages of the disease. It becomes more like tilting, turning, sharp movements. Often lethargy may appear in one of the lower limbs.
After a certain period of time, the back pain starts to become severe. As a result, muscle overload is strong. This helps to restrict movement. As a result, the patient's posture becomes noticeably worse. As a general rule, this pathology develops in patients after forty years. It manifests itself as a result of injury at an earlier age.
This disease should be treated in the early stages of its development. You should seek help from an orthopedist or neurologist. As a general rule, the doctor uses CT to diagnose this pathology. As therapy, they resort to surgery.
Diagnostic Activities
If persistent severe back pain makes your life difficult, go to a hospital.
First of all, the specialist performs the examination by touching the muscle tissue and the spine. It also evaluates the state of the central nervous system. The second step will be laboratory testing of blood and urine. This is necessary to eliminate the likelihood of pathology in the kidney organ.
Radiography is used as an additional diagnostic measure. This is necessary to eliminate the likelihood of various fractures, osteomyelitis and many other diseases.
If the x-ray shows ambiguous results, a spinal CT and MRI are also prescribed. CT scan clearly shows all the elements of the spinal cord, and MRI - the condition of the spinal cord and plates.
The presence of osteochondrosis is often revealed when performing the listed diagnostic methods. Nor can it be called a disease, but rather age-related changes in the spine.
In most cases, diagnostic procedures reveal certain diseases that develop with age. Pathologies can also be revealed if the patient has never experienced back pain. Based on the results of the full diagnosis, a highly trained professional will make a diagnosis and prescribe effective treatment.
Pain Management
In order for pain syndrome to leave you forever, you need to eliminate the cause of it. That is, it heals from the disease that triggers this pain. The neurologist or orthopedist chooses individual therapeutic methods in each case.
But the treatment of all types of pathology is related to cupping, acupuncture, and hand therapy.
Pain Relief
As a general rule, the pain of any disease recedes when the patient is in a supine position. But this is not recommended. When a person spends most of their time lying down, the disease begins to develop faster.
For certain types of pathologies, bed rest is required by a specialist. Of course, your doctor’s recommendations should be followed, but try to shorten this period as much as possible. The sooner you get out of bed, the more beneficial it will be for your recovery.
Do not overload your spine either. While you are in pain, try to avoid physical exertion and wear a special medical corset to secure it.
Pain relief involves conservative methods of influencing. One skilled in the art will prescribe drugs for oral administration as well as injections. Generally, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed, such as Diclofenac, lornoxicam.
Muscle relaxants are also used: tizanidine and tolperisone hydrochloride. Chondroprotectors are used in dystrophic processes. Your doctor may prescribe topical ointments and gels that belong to the group of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
After a full examination and an accurate diagnosis, your doctor may recommend physiotherapy, which consists of warming up with dry heat. As well as a series of exercises for physiotherapy exercises.
Manual therapy
If this method of treatment is performed by a qualified manual operator, in accordance with all rules and regulations, the pain syndrome will recur as soon as possible. In addition, manual therapy helps to eliminate vertebral defects.
Such treatment should not be used on its own without the permission of the treating specialist. The neurologist can recommend this exposure method only after the diagnostic procedures performed (X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging). 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. Not recommended for cardiovascular pathologies, including after a heart attack or stroke.
Never use this treatment for cancer.
This method is also not recommended for thyroid pathologies and osteoporosis. If the disease is in the exacerbation phase, refrain from manual therapy. In summary, such a method for relieving pain in the spinal region cannot be used with poor blood clotting.
Acupuncture
Acupunctureis also called acupuncture. This method of treatment is usually used for pain that results from severe spinal strain or when the patient is often in a stressful situation.
Experts say acupuncture helps restore endorphins. The effects of these elements on the body are similar to those of morphine. As everyone knows, morphine is a drug that can completely suppress pain.
Chinese medicine experts believe that acupuncture can eliminate any pain.
But according to research by Russian scientists, acupuncture should not be used in the following cases:
- with pathologies of the heart organ and structures;
- for malignant and benign tumors;
- if you are having surgery;
- in diseases of the kidneys and liver;
- during pregnancy and lactation;
- with poor blood clotting;
- in the presence of acute infectious diseases.
Final output
We have learned that back pain and its causes are of a different nature, the treatment is chosen individually for each person. As a general rule, the manifestation of pain is directly related to the pathologies of the spine and spinal cord.
Therefore, you should make an appointment with a neurologist for even the slightest symptoms.
As an additional consultation, a neurosurgeon, rheumatologist, oncologist, pulmonologist, traumatologist, and many other highly trained professionals may be examined. To understand which doctors are needed, make an appointment with your therapist. It will propose a further action plan.
In addition to the listed specialists, a massage therapist, reflexologist and manual therapist are used to treat and prevent pain syndrome. The most important thing in therapy is not to eliminate the pain defect, but to rule out the pathogenesis that causes the pain. An example is a complex therapy that consists of two stages.
In the initial stage - use of a drug that eliminates pain due to its ingredients: Vitamin B and Diclofenac. Because diclofenac is present in minimal amounts in the drug, it is not able to cause unpleasant side effects.
The next step is to use a medicine that contains the required amount of vitamins B1, B6, and B12. It helps to restore the myelin sheath of the fiber, improves the transmission of impulses from the nerve endings. It eliminates pain and prevents it from happening again.
Timely detection and treatment of the disease can "recover" the patient in the shortest possible time. The sooner you turn to medical institutions for help, the more likely you are to live a full life. Any attempt to get rid of the painful effect at home can have irreversible consequences.