Very often, people suffer from seemingly inexplicable back pain. It can be a shooting, aching pain, extending to the buttock, leg and so on. There are various back pains, the causes of their occurrence can also vary greatly. The loin is susceptible to stress and stress, the entire upper torso presses on it. The spine consists of vertebrae and cartilage discs, providing mobility and elasticity of the spine.
Disks wear out with age, and this leads to osteochondrosis. Sometimes the disc can relax and put pressure on the nucleus, this will give a bubble, which can lead to the formation of an intervertebral hernia. The bladder can put pressure on the nerve endings, which will cause excruciating pain in the pelvic area. A hernia can put pressure on the nerves that go to the spinal column and cause pain that radiates to the buttocks and leg. Such pain in the lumbar region is also called radiculitis.
Often a person is disturbed by a different order of back pain, the reasons for this may be different - an old trauma that begins to make itself felt with age, rupture of the disc, osteoporosis, spondylolisthesis, scoliosis, ostearthritis. Sometimes back pain can be caused by diabetes or nerve damage. Nerve injury is a very painful condition, often accompanied by fever, chills, and excessive night sweats.
Often muscle spasm can cause lower back pain, the reasons here may be in the wrong position of the body when working at the computer, for example, or staying in a long bent state. This can lead to the development of muscle spasm, causing acute, long pain. In this case, you do not need to endure pain, but you need to see a doctor in order to find out the cause of the disease and take the correct and timely treatment.
Instability of the spine can lead to pain in the back, the causes of it during prolonged physical activity - damage to the disk or intervertebral joint. In this case, there is a feeling of fatigue, it is difficult to straighten out, every excess movement causes discomfort. Pain extending to the buttock, even at rest, can be caused by a narrow spinal canal. This is a consequence of the growth of articular structures in the spine, which leads to impairment of the nerve endings of the spinal cord.
In order to understand how to treat back pain, you must first establish the cause of the disease, which is often not so simple to do. For diagnosis, x-rays, tomography, scanning and others are used. In addition, lumbar pain can be inherited, that is, be an inborn predisposition. Why can one person be a heavyweight and lift huge weights without harming health, and the second is enough to lift a few pounds to feel back pain?
Different can be lower back pain, their causes, as can be seen from the above, are also very different. For prevention, doctors recommend the following:
- you can not sit all day in an uncomfortable position;
- you need to lift weights due to the knees, and not the back;
- quit smoking;
- monitor proper posture;
- perform exercises to strengthen the abs and back muscles;
- consult a doctor for unexplained pain in the lumbar region.
For back pain, bed rest is necessary , moreover, on a bed with a hard surface. Take painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs. Your doctor may prescribe muscle relaxants to relieve muscle spasm. Locally apply ointments that have an analgesic effect and are able to relieve inflammation from damaged areas, as well as having a warming effect.
For acute and sharp pains, you must either call a doctor at home, or, if the condition allows, go to the clinic to the therapist. For pain after an injury - to a traumatologist. For various pains in the back, you can consult a surgeon, urologist or gynecologist. In any case, in order not to start the condition and not to make irreversible processes, an examination and timely medical assistance is necessary.