What to do if back pain lower left? Clearly this question can not be answered, if you do not pre-determine the nature of this pain and its causes. The nature of the pain may be sharp, contractions, or Vice versa, constant, monotonous, boring. By itself pain is a negative sign, which involves physical and moral suffering for the patient, impairs quality of life.
Reasons
But in some cases, this type of pain indicates advanced disease process that will not be cured with a tablet of analginum or grandma's herbs. Requires complex therapy, and in some situations can need a surgical intervention. Most often back to the left, is accompanied by such diseases and pathological processes such as:
- Diseases of the locomotor system, injuries of the spine (degenerative disc disease with displacement of the intervertebral disc, spinal curvature, certain injuries of the spine, tumor, tuberculosis).
- The kidney disease and stone formation in the pelvis renal
- Heart diseases – angina pectoris, myocardial infarction
- Lung and pleura – pleuropneumonia
- Myositis
- Diseases of the abdominal organs
- Pregnancy
Lose musculoskeletal
Back pain on the left can be disturbed in diseases of the spine, and this category of disease is most frequent the reason. The point is that some of the reasons (excessive weight, weakness of the immune system) can lead to metabolic disorders, degeneration and thinning of the intervertebral disc. This disc during physical exertion (sudden movements, lifting weights) becomes displaced in one direction or another, in this case on the left. There is a degradation of the reactive and the inflammation of the left hind sensitive spinal nerves, there is a characteristic of the left-sided lumbar pain.
In the same way, prejudiced and inflamed the nerves in the curvature of the face (scoliosis) of the lumbar spine. The reason may be the same pain, constantly maintain the wrong posture. Tumor location in the lower part of the back to the left grow a tumor and destroyed all of the muscles, the bones, the cartilages, the nerves. This state is characterized by intense pain, which can be removed only by narcotic analgesics.
A lot of pain disturb the patient in the left lumbar myositis. To the right and to the left at the bottom of the back are large sets of muscles. Under the influence of factors, adverse events (overcooling, physical exertion) in these muscles inflammation develops. This process gives severe pain, aggravated by breathing, coughing, change of body position.
Diseases of internal organs
In the left lumbar region is projected to the left kidney. It is for this reason that the diseases of this organ, tend to give low back pain on the left. The pain can be sharp and sudden, as in renal colic, or, on the contrary, boring and pain in the chronic kidney disease. Kidney pain syndrome are so similar to those of the spine, without any special diagnostic studies, these States are easy to confuse and make one disease for another. The hallmark of the renal disease is the so-called sign pasternatskogo – increased pain when effleurage (not strong!) in the projection of the kidneys. However, without laboratory analysis of urine, the accuracy of this sign is poor.
The Angina pectoris and myocardial infarction is often accompanied by pain behind the breastbone. But with the defeat of the rear parts of the heart muscle, the nature of the pain syndrome is to change – my back hurts under left shoulder blade, gives to his left hand, at the bottom of the back in the lower jaw. The pain is accompanied by the fear of death and can be so strong that removing it may require narcotics (of course, in the hospital).
Inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia) can affect the pleura in the lower divisions. Inflamed pleural surfaces rubbing together during breathing, and gives you lower back pain with one side or the other. The pain increases, the temperature increases if the pleural cavity, the fluid has accumulated.
Various diseases of the abdominal cavity in addition to abdominal pain can give left-sided pain in the lower back. In acute pathology that require immediate surgical intervention (inflammation of the peritoneum, intestinal obstruction), the pain is severe and is accompanied by the muscles of the abdominal wall. Long-term slow processes in the liver, the pancreas, the stomach of a patient concerned about pain, chronic pain. They are not intense, but because of its permanent nature, the patient experiences discomfort.
About the pregnancy until now, the debate continues – what is it disease or normal? One way or another, but the gestation leads to a change of all the physiological processes of the organism and the appearance of various pains, including left lower back. In this case the pain is caused by several factors – increased intra-abdominal pressure, displacement of internal organs and squeezing them pregnant uterus, further increase of the load on the spine weight of the fetus. If the pain increases and it is noted the bleeding of the genital organs, it is likely to have developed life-threatening maternal and fetal complications. You should urgently into the ambulance to go to the hospital.
Diagnosis and treatment of pain in the left side of the waist is carried out by several specialists – physician, neurologist, physician ultrasound, and if necessary, a gynecologist, a surgeon, a trauma surgeon. First, it turns out that the prescription of the left, and the character of pain, burning, pain, pulling, gives-does not occur in other parts of the body. On the basis of specific symptoms during the examination may be suspected pathology of the spine or internal organs.
But without laboratory tests is not enough. To the hospital to take in the General analysis of blood, urine. Recently become popular blood tests for markers of certain diseases. The compulsory registration of the ecg, to confirm or exclude heart disease. If necessary, a more in-depth diagnostics – radiography, ultrasound, computed tomography.
Treatment left lower back pain common recommendations not. Currently, in order to fight against this, and other pain pharmacological industry developed an Arsenal of drugs appropriate, analgesics. But painkillers are not always able to solve the problem, since these funds to eliminate the pain, but not eliminate its cause. In addition, the medical exam before the anesthesia is not desirable because it distorts the clinical picture and are more difficult to diagnose.
For this reason, caution should be the use of traditional medicines. They should be used only in combination with pharmaceutical means. In diseases of the spine, a great result given physiotherapy, exercise therapy, massage, therapy manual. But these methods of treatment is absolutely unacceptable for tuberculosis, tumors, pregnancy, some diseases of the skin and pathology of the cardiovascular system. During the treatment, a left lumbar pain, like any other, needs strictly individual approach. And do it only in a medical centre.