Drawing pain in the legs and lower back

This type of pain interferes not only to live, but even to walk. How is it that the pain arising in the back, able to penetrate into the limb and cause lameness? Despite the fact that the source is much higher, we feel its impact at this distance: your back is sore, but numb and drag the feet. As the back pain radiates to leg?

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Causes radiating pain in the legs can be draft, low back pain, hernia, tumors and stress

This is due to a reflex nervous nature of pain, its ability to spread across the entire length of the nerve emerging from the spinal cord. If this nerve somewhere is irritated, there is a distant response.

One of the possible causes of foot pain can be inflammation of the sciatic nerve

In the lumbosacral plexus is the nerve fibers emerging from the vertebrae l4 L5 and S1 — S3. This plexus is called the sciatic nerve. From the comfort of your piriformis, which literally split to the thigh and the ankle joints and the muscles, that is the most powerful and the nerve more long of body human.

Sciatica responds well to the lower extremities. The pain appeared in the lower part of the back to the legs, called lumbosciatica. In general suffers (is ill or pulls) a foot on the side of the nerve, but it happens and two-way reaction in which two feet are sore.

The pain is not limited to, patient harassment and other unpleasant sensations:

  • Kolyat feet, lose sensitivity, pulling or numb

If the nerve is affected at the level of the sacrum, through the muscles of the buttocks and thighs, pain syndrome from the sacrum and the foot is called sciatica.

Very often people feel pain in the back and legs in two different categories and not see the root cause. "I have a pain in my right knee, numb foot. I can't come to walk and climb the stairs" — they describe in detail the condition of its members, forgetting about the pain in the back, which all preceded it. Surprised also, "incompetence" of doctors who, instead of treating osteoarthritis of the knee, suddenly, they begin to take part of the spine.

But it is the spine, with its complex nervous system, muscle-ligament and the vascular system is the cause of the sciatica.

Why you get sick, stretch and feet numb

  1. Normal draft can be a cause of lumbago in the lower back, radiating to the leg. To the same consequences that can result from sitting on cold surface swimming in cold water, and for similar reasons. All of them can be grouped under the term "hypothermia"
  2. Osteochondrosis — dystrophic degenerative process in the lumbosacral region also periodically leads to acute pain radiated to the extremities. The deformation of the disc touching the nerve fibers and causing inflammation
  3. The training output and herniated discs can cause pain syndrome is very high intensity, if it compresses the nerve. The pain impulse is distributed to the area of innervation with the speed of the current. I wonder what the feeling on the affected side also resemble symptoms of weakness current: Tingling, burning, crawling skin crawling, feeling cold. These symptoms are called paresthesia. If the legs no longer hurt, and just numb, it could be said that because long-term compression of nerve fibres, which started atrophic processes
  4. Other diseases (spondylitis, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis) leads to the limitation and the stagnation of the bone, tissues, muscles, nerves and blood vessels, which stimulates inflammatory processes
  5. Spinal Tumors and tuberculosis can also cause inflammation of the sciatic nerve and the feeling that pulls and numbness in the extremities
  6. Stress is not a phenomenon that is innocuous and will never pass unnoticed, especially where nerves are involved

Classification of the pain syndrome of the back and legs

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In its origin, all types of low back pain radiated to the extremities, can be more or less defined in three main groups:

  1. The first group is associated with a neuroreflex nature of the pain syndrome and of pathological processes in the spine.

    Here you can put all the DDP (degenerative processes), because of which violated all metabolic processes in the tissues and its diet, and infectious, inflammatory diseases and dysplasia congenital of the spinal column. The threat to the nerve fibres here is twofold:

    • They are subjected to direct mechanical effects of parts of the spine
    • Degenerative changes begin to occur in the nerve fibers
  2. The second group is associated with muscle dysfunction in the back or legs. Causes it to turn different. This:
    • Scoliosis of the spine, where he formed a persistent asymmetry of muscle groups, located on both sides of the bow
    • Increase of the load on certain muscles as a result of positions uncomfortable or physical stress
    • Muscle myositis caused by hypothermia, infectious processes or congenital anomalies
    • Leg pain often occurs in a very banal reason — walking in high heels Cause foot pain can be uncomfortable shoes with high heels
  3. Autonomic dysfunction — the third type of the origin of the sciatica

    Vegetative-visceral disorders — this is a great symptom, which includes all the disorders in the internal organs and body systems related to problems of adjustment of the autonomic nervous system (ANS)

    The autonomic system is closely connected with the Central principle of direct and feedback:

    • Failures in the Central nervous system, local damage to the spinal nerves and fibers give rise to irregularities in the VNS
    • Autonomic disorders include the response of the Central nervous nervous system, in the area of the innervation of which are

    Especially often problems with the feet can occur when vegetative-vascular disorders in the area of the lumbosacral spine. Poor blood supply can cause pain in the back and limbs, muscular dystrophy of the legs.

Summarizing all the above, we can conclude:

To find out why sick, stretch and insensitive to the legs so that the pain originated in the back, only after a thorough diagnosis:

  • Anamnesis
  • X-ray, CT and magnetic resonance imaging of the spine
  • Angiography of the
  • Laboratory studies, etc.

The treatment of back pain and legs

The treatment should be fully adequate to the causes of the disease.

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  1. If the pain generated by the MDC, that is:
    • Analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs (Nsaids)
    • Traction techniques (stretching of the spine by exhaust devices)
    • Chiropractic and acupuncture
    • The application of low frequency currents, magnetic therapy and other physiotherapy methods of hardware
    • Exercises physical therapy
  2. With muscular dysfunction caused by scoliosis, in addition to applying:
    • Special corrective exercises
    • The use of corsets
  3. Treatment of myositis with success carried out:
    • Irritating ointments (if myositis is not caused by infection)
    • Massage, physical therapy
    • In some cases, it may be necessary to antibiotic therapy
  4. With dystonia prescribed complex treatment:
    • Vasodilators
    • Angioprotectors
    • Vitamins and stimulators of metabolic processes
    • Sedatives sedatives

Treatment reflect pain is always a long process, since it usually occur in chronic long diseases that affect the human nervous system

Therefore, if a back pain, try to immediately determine the cause of the pain and start the treatment without waiting for the moment when they begin to hurt, go numb or stretch the feet.

If the pain radiates to the leg, first think of lumbago (sciatica) or sciatica. Especially if their fingers were numb and my leg aches. More often the case. And few people remember that these symptoms can be and at other diseases, such as appendicitis acute.

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Reasons

  1. The most common cause is the pathology of the spine (osteochondrosis, scoliosis, radiculitis, sciatica, herniated disc, spondylitis, spondylolisthesis, and other degenerative diseases of the nature, as well as post-traumatic, complications, tumours and infections);
  2. The pathology of the organs of the lower part of the abdomen (kidney stones, cystitis, oophoritis, adhesions, inguinal hernia, appendicitis, etc.).

Important: On the rare diseases, which leads to the appearance of the described syndrome, should not be forgotten.

Pathology of bone and muscular structures

Pain in the low back, associated with diseases of the spine and extends to the lower limb, so-called lumbosciatica.

Degenerative process in the lumbar spine the pain is often develops because of the compression of a nerve root and radiates to the lower limb in the nerve leading to the lumbosacral plexus, the sciatic, is divided into fibular and tibial. The latter gives the popliteal fossa rise to nerves of the leg.

The compression of nerve roots occurs when the destruction of intervertebral cartilage on the background of degenerative diseases reactions. This reduces the distance between the vertebrae adjacent and, in consequence, be less openings for the cord and the nerve roots. When herniated, it will be resent directly to the protrusion of the hernia, in tumors, abnormal tissue growth, while spondylosis is bony overgrowths, called osteophytes.

On the background of pathological process is always evolving inflammatory reaction in the form of edema and dysfunction of the surrounding tissues, worsening of the blood circulation in the affected area, it is normal to inhibit the metabolism. Subsequent increase of muscle tone in the area of innervation of the roots of the most disadvantaged, which leads to a strengthening of pain.

The development of changes in the spine, usually marked with the end of the process of ossification approximately 25 years and is considered a physiological phenomenon normal. This the beginning of the aging of the bone and cartilage structures can be suspended, if you follow the principles of the nutrition and strengthen the back muscles with special exercises.

The different nature of the pain syndrome.

Diseases of the spine occur in the following types of sciatica:

  • Musculo-tonic — manifested a strong spicy spasm, while the development of compensatory curvature of the spine, the movement at the bottom of the back limited;
  • Autonomic-vascular — burning pain in the nature accompanied by a feeling of numbness in the foot, which can receive a sensation of coldness or heat in the extremities, especially when you try to change the position of the body. So sensitive to the vascular system in pathological process;
  • Neurodystrophic — evolution of the burning spasms mainly at night, sometimes the skin on the pathological focus thinner.

Important: the Most common pain syndrome is mixed. A form of sciatica in its pure form is rare.

Clinical manifestations of diseases of the spine

  1. When osteoarthritis pain can be acute or chronic. Acute pain occurs after sudden movements or lifting heavy weights. Often, it is numb both feet are pain in the area of the hip joint and movement at the bottom of the back is restricted.

The chronic pain is almost a constant companion of life to which almost used, as the interval lucid is very small. Therefore, it moves into the lumbar region and along the branches of the sciatic nerve.

  1. When hernia, localized in the lumbar region of the spine, the pain may be not all, but disturbed function of pelvic organs: often pulls "piss in bathroom", can develop incontinence, it is stated in the tingling in the legs and "pins and needles".

With the development of the pain syndrome may develop paralysis of the lower extremities caused by a complete compression of the motor rootlets. But in addition to these serious consequences of the pathological process did not achieve it.

  1. With sciatica, and lumbago in the lower back radiating to the leg, therefore there is a limp, muscle aches and pulls. You can decrease the sensitivity to the posterolateral surface of the leg and the back of the foot. Relief comes in the position of supine, the back must be relaxed. Sometimes the pain of the syndrome is attenuated in "the fetal position".

Pathology of internal organs

Often lumbar pain radiating to the leg, are a manifestation of diseases of internal organs. Limb while this numbs, the nerve pull, and the pain can also be given to the groin.

  1. Kidney stones can manifest described the syndrome when the stone reaches through the ureter;
  2. And adhesive disease nerves can put pressure spikes;
  3. Salpingoophoritis, uterine fibroids, endometriosis also manifests itself as discomfort in the lumbosacral segment and the leg on the affected side;
  4. Appendicitis acute with atypical location of the Appendix (retroperitoneal posterior surface of the cecum) is pulling pain in the right lumbar region, which shoots down my right leg. If in the position of supine to try to lift the straight right leg, she involuntarily bent and are developed on the outside.

These phenomena are explained by the peculiarities of the innervation of the pelvic organs and the legs.