Hello, dear readers! That to us is unknown with back pain? This discomfort at least once experienced all of them. Sometimes, the cause of back pain is physical fatigue and sometimes serious disease. In the latter case, the pain and discomfort located in the body for a long time, exterat and causing significant discomfort.
You'll learn how to determine why the back pain and the severity of the pain caused, to be able to time to consult the right specialist until the problem escalated into a serious illness.
With physical fatigue, everything is clear: winter has left snow in the summer and worked in the garden in a pose "SIC" — lower back pain, you must ensure, especially with the habit. Here the treatment is very simple – a pleasant stay. Another thing, when back pain has emerged seems to be no apparent reason. Then, possibly, we will talk about the disease.
Symptoms and causes of back pain. Who to contact for help?
Osteochondrosis
The main symptom of the disease is called a dull pain in the back, which was accompanied by a crisis in the spine, discomfort. In the future, there is a feeling of numbness at the site of injury of the spine, the movement is restricted, the pain can be stronger when lifting weights, when a person sneezes, coughs or makes any sudden movement. "Rapiente", a sharp and intense pain occurs due to compression of the nerve roots, and discs of the spine. A man can feel the pain from several minutes to several days. If you hit osteochondrosis thoracic spine, a person that starts to hurt the heart, because of what is often wrong in the determination of the cause, knowing that not the osteochondrosis, such disease, the angina pectoris.
When pain from degenerative disc disease becomes permanent, it becomes chronic, the person who constantly feels tired, he always wants to go to sleep in the rest, can't sit long or stand.
Of four feeling of pain in the spine, three are due to osteochondrosis. With age, our spine takes place more and more, therefore, half of the world's population, more than 30 years of age who is sick with this disease!
If your suspicions fall on the low back pain, your task is to go to the consultation to the neuropathologist. You take a photo, we recommend a complex of vitamins, adjust your diet and suggest exercises and physiotherapy. Today you have the power to plan and make a trip to the swimming pool, because swimming is a wonderful activity to keep your back in shape.
Herniated discs
When the disease is still at an early stage, in the back there is a dull pain when bending with a turn to the other side when sneezing, coughing or lifting heavy objects. Is likely to cause a feeling of weakness in one leg. With more than displacement of the disk from the pain can be dull to sharp, in some cases it radiates to the thigh, buttock, or thigh. Because of the pain associated with hernias muscle tension occurs, which degrades the mobility. Given that the pain does not usually sorted, it is not surprising that the posture of the patient is disturbed.
As usual, intervertebral hernias occur in people of over forty years, and this problem is not rare. If the damage has occurred, the hernia can be formed and up to 40. The person is big, the more "settle" your spine – the vertebrae are pressed toward each other more closely, the units simulated and protrudes outside of the spine. The head of the column can be affected with hernia, and degenerative disc disease.
If you think you have a hernia, you will need to go to the orthopedist or neurologist. The most effective way of diagnosing herniated discs consider a ct scan. The traditional method of treatment of hernias is surgery, although not always justified.
Back pain in the spine in some situations, it may be a symptom of compression fracture, which is possible in older people who more than 60 years, this happens due to the increased brittleness of the bones.
In exceptional cases, the onset of pain as a result of the formation of tumors of the spine.
Neuralgia intercostal
The pain arises in the region of the ribs on the side or on the back, lower back and shoulders. The pain may be sick or sharp, burning or dull, which can happen time, and can be present at all times. If the pain is acute, it is often perceived as Rapiente in the heart.
To these symptoms be added, and redness of the skin or stick.lidesa, excessive sweating, sensation of twitching of certain muscles.
When neuralgia intercostal is the irritation, entrapment, compression of nerves intercostal. In the place where the most deprived and nervous disorders, a person can feel the lack of sensitivity of the skin.
To recognize this disease is not easy, as it can masquerade as other diseases, because their job is to consult a therapist and to give the details of their symptoms. You will be assigned to research that will help to determine the diagnosis, the treatment of neuralgia intercostal prescribed ointment relieves pain, vitamins of the b group, nulla, physiotherapy...
Kidney disease
Pain the pain is usually accompanied by kidney damage. During the exercise, when a person is or is in these situations, the pain can occur, however, if you go to sleep, the pain "let go". Of course, the pain in the back and has added additional symptoms of kidney disease: high fever, frequent urination, dark urine, abdominal pain.
Problems in the kidney may give pain, not only in the lower part of the back, but also in the column thoracic, as it seemed incredible. The fact is that these feelings can cause the sand or stones in the kidneys, any type of infection, the inflammatory process and "walking kidney" (also called the "fall of the kidney" — a disease nephroptosis characterized by displacement of the kidney from their site).
When back pain there are other symptoms of the kidney disease, your work in the near future, consult with a urologist it is recommended that you first do an ultrasound and stick to your diet: eliminate all alcohol, spicy and salty foods, and limit physical activity. In addition, it is necessary to increase the number of drinks per day, the plan of the water or fruit drinks. Suggested to take the decoction special diuretic herbs (bearberry, bilberry leaf).
Gastrointestinal Disease
In the waist area (the area of the upper lumbar and lower thoracic vertebrae) the pain may occur when stomach ulcers. In this disease, the pain appears at night or on an empty stomach, and after eating.
Gastritis can also cause back pain. Stomach pain may not be felt, but the feeling of emptiness, as if the people don't. Muscle and back pain occurs on the left side.
Back pain as a result of problems with the intestinal tract, along with possible symptoms such as loose stools, feeling of fullness, flatulence.
If the cause of back pain – stomach problems, you need to cure it, and does not seek to eliminate the pain. Go to the reception to the gastroenterologist and pass all the necessary tests. Follow the diet, excluding meats, spicy and fried meals and eat more often, avoiding long intervals between meals. You can, of course, take a course of massage to remove the pain in the back, but the sick stomach that with time it becomes.
Gynecological diseases
Back pain in women is often caused by problems with gynecology. Appears at the bottom of the back and sometimes radiates to the buttocks. The rest of the symptoms of problems with the gynecology include: specific discharge, bad smells, problems with the menstrual cycle.
Diseases of the female reproductive organs that can cause back pain: the the inflammatory process in the ovaries, endometritis (inflammation of the lining of the uterus), various infections and tumors.
If you think that you have problems with gynecology, go to a specialist and get an ultrasound. You will be assigned to the appropriate diagnosis and treatment, it is recommended to avoid hypothermia and overheating (it is not necessary to visit to the sauna and take a warm bath) in order not to provoke an inflammatory process.
Diagnosis of back pain
- The majority of back pain is called a dull pain in the lower back. She can talk like a hernia or bulge, about the problems with the gynecology or the kidneys.
- More dangerous is the pain in the spine thoracic, it is also the most unpredictable. The reason for this type of pain is a serious problem for the health, ranging from a heart attack, ending the tumor.
- The most difficult-to-treat — pain in the lumbar region radiating to the leg.
Pain in the back is located in:
- osteochondrosis,
- intervertebral hernia,
- sciatica.
With sciatica the pain is the pain, sometimes radical, and acute. Usually discomfort pain appears with one side of the body, can give a leg, thigh, thigh, buttock. If the person is coughing, changing body position, walking, the pain becomes stronger. The pain may be burning sensation, numbness, itching, tingling or "chills".
Acute back pain is when:
- the compensation of the discs of the spine due to degenerative disk disease, improper lifting, with dislocation or fracture of the spine, as well as for operations in the spinal column;
- fall, strong movements, muscle tension, hypothermia;
- lumbago, this tends to be the case, for those who are engaged in heavy physical work. After a few days the acute pain usually disappears, although it can last up to three weeks;
- renal colic, a feeling of intense pain appears not only in the back, but in the abdomen, you feel it sometimes in the genitals;
- problems with the genitourinary system pain occurs in the lower part of the back and abdomen, in addition to the temperature of the body becomes high;
- pulmonary diseases, and the pain occurs not only in the back and in the shoulders and chest. May increase when coughing, one feels a General malaise and has a fever.
Pain pain in the back is located in:
- inflammation of the muscles of the waist, myositis (inflammation of skeletal muscles). These sensations appear as a consequence of exposure to cold or muscle strain. The affected muscles become rigid, and the tension hurts even more. Although this pain pain a very long time, it is not strong and not causing too much discomfort.
Chronic back pain occurs when:
- spondylosis (the so-called overgrowth of bone tissue at the edges of the bodies vertebral, which is like the thorns). The pain is the pain often associated symptoms – numbness, weakness in the legs. With the defeat of the cervical pain occurs in the neck, the shoulders, when he turns his face;
- ankylosing spondylitis, cancer, osteomyelitis, problems with the metabolism.
The pain that radiates to the left or to the right of the leg, occurs when:
- inflammation of the sciatic nerve, the pain is felt in the sacrum and lower back, the back of the thigh or the buttock, the foot or the leg, along with tingling and numbness of the muscles.
Prevention of back pain
In order not to experience discomfort in the back, you must follow these rules:
- Standing and walking properly, don't slouch or stretch your neck, keep your back straight.
- Sitting, leaning back in the chair, feet reliqua on the floor and not have a leg over the other. If you have time to sit back, put your feet on a small bench, that the level should be above the hips. Get up from time to time, and make sure to stretch the muscles, do some simple exercises to warm up, change position.
- To correctly lift weights, no sudden movements: in the first place, sat down, took a heavy object and then stand with a straight back.
- Sleep correctly in a semi-rigid bed, lying on his side.
- Enough to overload your body physically, regularly do exercises that strengthen the muscles of the back and the abdomen. If there are serious problems with the spine, before you start any set of exercises, you need to consult a specialist.
Of all the physical activities, swimming is the most suitable for the health of the spine.
If you set a goal to get rid of back pain, the movement must be present in your life on a regular basis. Go on foot, in vehicles not seek quickly to sit, climb the stairs, bypassing the Elevator. In addition, eating well and balanced, think positively (to start, stop watching the news and "devastating" TV). All these simple changes in your behavior can significantly improve the state of your spine.
Be healthy!