Types and causes of back pain

Back pain is an inevitable phenomenon that we encounter in our life sooner or later. Even if you are not thresholds stacker or loader, not the woman carrying home a lot of daily pound bags, not the Amateur gardener working in the garden at his dacha in the spring sowing period, and not an athlete, weightlifter pain can not be avoided, however. You can only wonder seems to be sitting, not straining the whole day on the computer, virtually no loads, but at the end of the day starts the pain and the lower back discomfort occurs in the neck, shoulder area and shoulders. Why is it important? Why for no reason, pain in the back?

Pain in the back

Why back pain and how to treat

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In fact, the causes of back pain are many. The first of them was anatomical. The core design a lot of connections, when upright, is very fragile: it is carried out with the longitudinal (compressive) and transverse loads. To be strictly vertical, it can only be in a state of tension, that is, if it ends up on this to tie the strings and pull them — the web is straightforward, and the strings, to let go — to take a shaky, broken.

Somehow this reminds of the spine: perform the role of a Central core of this unique bio-design — the human body, and the role of tightening nor the performance of the back muscles. Imagine now, that the rod still attached and the body with all its internal organs, so poor, fibre-muscles need to withstand not only the weight of the spine of the rod, but the weight of the entire body and is constantly.

Unknowingly came to the conclusion that it is in fact the Creator, we conceived the first Homo erectus, because "the fee for bipedalism" is somehow protected. Open any medical reference in the section "Diseases of the musculoskeletal system," to verify this.

The most common causes of back pain

However, right to conclude that once a bad back, then you will be definitely something seriously sick, is not worth it. More than 80% of low back pain may occur occasionally due to the following reasons:

  • muscle strain due to physical exertion
  • prolonged exposure of the spine in the same posture while sleeping, sitting on the computer, transport, etc ..
  • hypothermia back to this in the proposal, before air conditioning, at departure from the warm room into the fresh cool air, cold bathing.
  • old previously acquired and poorly healed injuries (sprains, bruises)

A lot less pain in the back due to really serious diseases. What could be the reason? They are the most diverse and are not always associated with damage to the spinal segments and, consequently, the disease.

It happens that a person who has some sort of sick body, and you experience pain radiating to the back, for example:

  • when kidney patients is the pain radiates to the lower back
  • gynecological diseases in women pain, which may radiate in the lumbosacral
  • in the presence of the tumor the pain can radiate to certain parts of the back

Therefore, before the treatment of back pain, it is necessary to first determine its true causes, that is, to conduct a thorough diagnosis of the presence of other possible diseases.

Chronic back pain

Pain

Always be wary of chronic pain that is present almost always at hand, release. It is possible that the reason that such diseases:

  1. Pain in the low back, arising from degenerative changes in the tissue of the spinal disk
  2. Scoliosis — curvature, which leads to disk displacement, and injury to them the nerve root
  3. Disc herniation with access from the drive of its nucleus into the spinal cord or (even worse) in the direction of the spinal cord
  4. Spondylolisthesis — slippage of the upper vertebra to the lower, as a result of the deformation of the legs of the vertebra, causing the spine becomes like a ladder with exposed treads
  5. Bechterew's disease (spondylitis), inflammation of the ligaments and joints, which lead to their immobility. This is mainly affects men. The risk of this rare disease, in the context of the further development — the gradual recovery of the spine, to switch to the internal organs: lungs, kidneys, heart, blood vessels, organs of vision.
  6. Cancer — a tumor in the spine may be primary, but most often occurs in the form of metastases from other organs. The percentage of the total number of causes about one percent.
  7. Spinal infections — tuberculosis, osteomyelitis, syphilis and other diseases as causes of pain are extremely rare (about 0.01%)
  8. Compression fractures — a disease, unfortunately, relatively common (about 4%). In youth occurs mainly in athletes due to excessive load and injuries in old age — because phenomena, due to which the vertebrae is no longer able to withstand only the weight of the person.
  9. Myalgia is a chronic, due to persistent hypothermia, inflammation of the muscle tissue

In all cases, when you treat the pain and inflammation you need to treat the underlying disease that is causing the pain.

Types of back pain: causes and treatment

The most effectively relieve pain in the back:

  1. Medical gymnastics (exercises for back pain)
  2. Laser MLS (after 2. session, the pain disappears)
  3. Hivamat (a unique treatment that eases pain immediately, but it should be like 2-3 times.)

The nature of the pain can in advance determine its cause and prescribe the appropriate treatment.

Acute pain (lumbago) — can have the following reasons:

  1. Complications of scoliosis — pinched nerve in the result of the disk shift
  2. Osteohondroznye the deformation of the vertebrae and compression of nerve roots, herniated discs
  3. Spondylolisthesis and other diseases
  4. Trauma and injuries received as a result of drops In this case, you may need not only conservative but also surgical treatment.
  5. Diseases of the internal organs.

For the diagnosis plays a large role in determining the pain in the back:

Sharp pain, which may be caused by:

  • kidney stones
  • exacerbations of intestinal diseases
  • inflammation of the ureter
  • rupture of the ovaries in women and other diseases

Girdle pain is a very serious signal which indicates such possible diseases:

  • pyelonephritis
  • the aggravation of pancreatitis
  • stones in gallbladder
  • myocardial infarction
  • rupture of the esophagus
  • aneurysm of the lower aorta.

If pain in the back in the blades, this can mean:

  • neuro-muscular myopathy and paralysis of adjacent muscles to the blades, resulting in the development of the so-called "winged" scapula
  • osteomyelitis developed after open injuries
  • benign tumors and malignant sarcomas of the blades
  • myocardial infarction
  • aneurysm of the thoracic aorta

Pain in the left shoulder sharp blade is also very disturbing, because it means that such disease:

  • myocardial infarction
  • perforated ulcers of the stomach
  • intercostal neuralgia

Sharp pain in upper back:

  • pneumothorax (penetration of light)
  • pleurisy (accumulation of fluid in the lungs)
  • cancer of the lung and bronchus
  • attack cholecystitis — the pain is concentrated under the ribs on the right and epigastric region, but its influence is very wide: the right scapula and shoulder, the hands, on the left side of the chest
  • an attack of acute pancreatitis — pain under the left scapula, in the chest on the left and heart

So impressive diagnosis says only one thing: when back pain, sharp pain, go immediately to the doctor self-treatment is unacceptable.

Acute pain (sciatica) — a sharp spear of pain in the lumbosacral (sciatica), often radiating to the buttocks and legs can be caused by:

  • pinch the sciatic nerve, resulting from degenerative disc disease, herniation and displacement of intervertebral disc, spinal stenosis
  • inflammation of the sciatic nerve due to hypothermia
  • spasm of the muscles of the piriformis
  • infectious diseases and tumors
  • late pregnancy

The treatment of acute pain, caused by a progressive disease of the spine, such as scoliosis, osteochondrosis and other, as well as their complications, should be carried out in accordance with the generally accepted scheme:

The first is a treatment to remove acute pain and inflammation:

  • at the pain, the nonsteroidal or steroid anti-inflammatory medications and muscle relaxants

Then of course of medications, improves the functioning of the brain, nervous system and circulatory system

After that, a direct treatment of the underlying cause of pain osteochondrosis, hernia, spondylosis and other diseases:

  • the restoration of the destroyed bone tissue protectors
  • physical therapy, massage, physical therapy

In the worst cases, to eliminate the entrapment resort to surgery, but this rarely happens.

Nagging low back pain most often in the lower back can be the cause for the following reasons:

  1. Lumbosacral osteochondrosis, spondylosis, and other spinal pathology in the chronic phase
  2. Inflammation of the lumbar muscles (myositis)
  3. Adnexitis (inflammation of the appendages) in women)
  4. Heavy physical activity
  5. Long awkward pose
  6. Old injuries, often annoying "weather"
Herbal

In any case, the treatment is different. Combine both medicinal herbs and folk therapies. For example:

  • muscle pain also for the treatment of dry warmth wearing on the belt of dog hair
  • when adnexitis long used decoctions of the specific multi-component herbal

Pain in athletes and due to a wave can occur due to over-training, heavy lifting and sharp bends and inclinations of the torso, which becomes stiff. In this case, treatment of simple exercises for relaxation and stretching of muscles:

  1. Need to lie down on the couch on his side, tucked under the head and between the legs pillow
  2. Then lie on the floor up and hugging her knees, pull them toward your chest
  3. Lying on your side, stretch your legs at a right angle to the body and rest the hands on the back of the head, tilt the head to the stomach,
  4. Then, maintaining the lateral position, straighten and bend the top leg at the knee, pulling it closer to her stomach. The upper part of the hands to take out the back and lower under the head. Now try at the same time both shoulder blades and your knees are bent leg is touching the ground

Treatment can be supplemented, when after exercise by rubbing gels and ointments and massages, it is also very relaxing pulled muscles and soothing pain.

Summing up all the above, we can draw these conclusions:

  1. The treatment of acute pain should be carried out only doctor, from the moment of their formation. Do not put the diagnosis.
  2. To seek help you need as soon as possible, because of possible hazardous to health, and perhaps life, the cause of the problem.
  3. Chronic pain, the nature of which you already know, you can treat at home with the use as a medicine, and folk remedies. However, the control of a doctor still should be, as well as the appointment of a special physiotherapeutic procedures, massage, exercise therapy and other treatments.

Health to you and can be a pain in your life will be less!