Pain of many and the back in a very different way, in the time it happens with the majority of adults. Someone the pain is nothing serious, just do a few simple exercises that she has passed. Someone becomes a symptom of a tumor, infection, or injury degenerative changes in the spine.
To understand what causes pain, what it is and what to do with it, it is not so difficult.
Causes of back pain
Why it hurts your back? Causes of back pain are very varied. Describe in the easiest way to break into the group.
- Temporary. The syndrome is seen in people healthy in a short period of time, as a result of the impacts of the circumstances of abuse of exercise of long-term presence in the same position. It is not dangerous, just get rid of him.
- Degenerative. Appears as a result of the changes in the vertebral column: it has been moved to the vrtebra, problems with intervertebral discs, trapped nerve. It is not dangerous, but is unpleasant and a long stream.
- Infectious. It becomes a symptom of an inflammatory process, which is celebrated in the spine or nearby muscles. It is dangerous, because the infection affects the entire body of an extremely negative and can cause the death of the patient.
- Radiating. It becomes a symptom of the disease of the internal organs. The spinal column is not specified, the pain only in the back.
- Other. In this group combine the causes of which were not included in the first four.
Understanding why it hurts your back, you must remove each group separately.
Temporary pain
It is a small group, but it is with them has the opportunity to confront any person. Their reasons are three:
- The awkward position of the body. The back pain becomes a natural reaction to the tension of the muscles and the flexion of the spine. The pain of throwing out nasty. Are characteristic of people who work sitting several hours, not by creating a comfortable workplace, where long-term is in the same position.
- Muscles. If not trained the man begins to carry the weight, will active work or going to the gym, the reaction of your muscles and ligaments will be natural that the next day will suffer from pain. The nature of the, is reinforced when you try to move. If we continue by the strength, can lead to the muscles before the inflammation.
- Pregnancy. So that the child can get out of the generic pathways, already in the first months of pregnancy in a woman's body begins to produce the hormone that ligaments soft. When you do this, the longer, the more the weight of the child and of the load on the spinal column are the result of throwing out the persistent pain localized in the lumbar region or sacrum.
The pain in the back of this type spend by themselves, the muscles recover, the child is born, the position of the body changes and everything comes to normal, almost without the participation of the patient.
All that can be done to lighten their state, having supplied in time of peace.
Degenerative pain
Such severe dysfunction of the temporal, and by themselves do not pass. Them concern:
- The osteochondrosis. The cause of the degeneration of the structure of the intervertebral discs. Lose their elasticity and become flat and, consequently, the vertebrae are less agile, collapse, change of form. Are distinguished, in function of what most amazed of the departments of the vertebral column: cervical, thoracic, lumbar. Cervical is accompanied by pain, which occur in the shoulder, painful of headaches, dizziness, impairment of hearing. The chest occurs on the chest, often so strong that it has problems with breathing. When the lumbar spine occur in the legs, often accompanied by lameness and disorders of the organs of the pelvis.
- Intervertebral hernia. The hernia develops when the intervertebral disc bulges between the vertebrae. First the dull pain, pulling, is intensified when in the disk, pressed the vertebrae when an infected person coughs, it raises the gravity, the time it sits in the same place. In the future intensifies, begins to teach in the extremities, increase. Is accompanied by muscle weakness, the rapid change of posture in the worst of the problems with the sensitivity of the extremities. If not treated, it can lead to the paralysis of everything that the next disk, that obstructed.
- The displacement of the vertebra. Develops or by the pathology, whether degenerative changes in the structure of the spine. It is located most frequently in the lumbar area, the pain is constant, pulling, resonates in the buttocks and legs.
- The loss of the unit. It becomes a logical continuation of development of hernias of the spine. Pinched disc bulges to the point that, in reality, falls from his seat. To the state characterized by an acute pain in the patient becomes motionless in the same position and try not to move in order to not aggravate.
- The radiculitis. Occurs due to a crushing roots of the spinal cord. It manifests with pain, then the sensation of tingling, numbness, decreased sensation, up to the total atrophy of the plot, whose relationship with the nervous system provides specific spine. Precisely because of the sciatica occurs back pain a strong pain, in which the patient has suddenly shoots back, and stops in a bent position, not in forces to stretch.
- Osteoporosis. Occurs either by old age or by the hormonal alterations in the body. The bone tissue, as a result of the influence of the disease, becomes less dense and loses its normal structure. The pain appear to the duty of residence in the static posture or a change of climate. They are accompanied by a change of posture, leg cramps, and the extreme fragility of the bones, any weak blow, it can lead to fracture.
- The Disease Behtereva. The disease, which leads to weakening of the small joints of the spine that connect the individual vertebrae. It is characterized by a persistent pain, which is reinforced at night and it makes it easier in the morning.
Degenerative changes are of a chronic character, and is treated for the most part, a change in life-style, and manual therapy. Symptomatic therapy, it is assigned only at the time of exacerbations, the costs of the intervention are shown only in some cases to the osteochondrosis, for example, do not help.
Infectious
Specific inflammation of the spine is not so much in its greater part, the syndrome is caused by infectious diseases, which can, in principle, has, wherever it is. Often these are two diseases:
- Tb. The pulmonary form is the most frequent, but happens that affects the spine. Intense pain, the treatment of a long and difficult, often the man remains of the results of the disability.
- Osteomyelitis. Surprised the bone tissue, the periosteum, the bone marrow. Passes painfully, with the formation of pus. The pain of a pull, accompanied by the formation of fistula purulent wounds in the body.
And tuberculosis, osteomyelitis, accompanied by an increase in temperature, headache, muscle weakness, fatigue, and often nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, all of this classic of the symptoms of the infection. The treatment they need immediately, since the more early stage of what will be most effective.
Radiating
Diseases of the internal organs may also be the cause of the development of the pain. When this pain does not increase and does not decrease the changes of position of the body, and also accompanied by a clear sintomatologa, indicates in a particular organ.
- The kidney. The most common form of the option, in most of the inflammatory diseases or the stones. The pain surrounds, to the level of the waist, over the back, does not depend on the movement. It is accompanied by frequent impulses to urinate, saturated yellow color of the urine or blood in it, the increase of the temperature. Sometimes found in the form of renal colic acute pain with a side of the back.
- Gastrointestinal tract. In the ulcer or gastritis pain may be given in the back. The nature of the pain, occur, or at night, when the man walks away to go to sleep, or when hungry, or immediately after a meal. Accompanied by classic symptoms of disorders of the stomach and of the intestine from inflammation, increase of the education of the gas, nausea, constipation or diarrhea. Sometimes it is added to the heartburn and blood in the stool black, if the sick person has a stomach ulcer, black in color, if the ulcer of the intestine.
- Gyn. In women the pain are also pain nature, are located slightly above the waist. Accompanied by disorders of the menstrual cycle, secretions of unusual color and consistency, with unpleasant odour, problems with sex, sometimes, fever.
- The lungs. The stabbing pain in the division, reinforced by the inhalation, weakens the exhalation. Is accompanied by shortness of breath, surface, acceleration of the pulse, to breathing, symptoms of oxygen of fatigue, dizziness, fainting.
- Heart. The stabbing pain, also in the division, can be in the shoulder and in the left hand. Accompanied by fibrillation or tachycardia, acceleration of the pulse of breath, dizziness.
In this case, pain syndromes easily associated with the internal organs, already that the sensations of pain in the back is nothing more than the symptoms is not observed.
Other
This group includes pathologies, such as cancer and back injuries, which were not included in the above. For them to have different symptoms:
- The tumor. The cancer in the spine is found exclusively on rare occasions, and then is surprised or bone marrow or bone tissue. Often the back is impregnated with metastasis, and then, in addition to the primary symptoms the patient suffers from severe pains in the back.
- The trauma. Drops, bumps, and other injuries leave a bruise, sometimes, the fracture of ribs or even of the spinal column. And symptoms, and treatment depend on the nature of the injury, the vrtebra occurred, to the extent of the young man. More often, the consequences range from simply wait, when you come to the cardinal before to stay in the hospital and wait until the bone will grow together.
In any case, these causes are serious and require a visit to the doctor, the diagnosis and the treatment.
Types of pain
The back pain is different from often assume that the problem, can, simply, by his character. Is:
- strong, pulling specific degenerative changes, or, if it is accompanied by symptoms of diseases of the heart and the lungs;
- the acute occurs when radiculitis, appear of the vertebra, renal colic and infectious defeat, often accompanied by an increase of the temperature;
- the pain most often is called muscle tension (and then the muscles during the palpation solid, coupled), but may indicate degenerative changes are not in the phase of exacerbation, if the back pain is constant;
- radiating the symptoms of back pain accompanied by symptoms from other organs, the pain does not change the intensity or on the basis of the position of the body, or on the basis of the time of day.
If you suffer from back pain, pain speaks eloquently about what you suffer from. Sometimes you don't even need the visit to the doctor and you can get to understand.
What to do when your back pain?
There are a number of cases, the moment of going to the doctor is not necessarily:
- if it is a disease of chronic character, and the patient was found to be with him more than once;
- if the pain arises as a result of muscular over-exertion;
- if the patient is sitting in an uncomfortable position and can clearly link with this pain.
In such cases, it may be enough to keep the place that hurts the heat (you can wrap your scarf), avoid awkward postures and to drink vitamins help the body recover faster.
Write immediately to your doctor or call your home, it is necessary, if:
- the pain appeared after the injury;
- the pain is accompanied by loss of sensation in the back or the extremities;
- the pain does not go away for several days, or even increased;
- accompanied by fever and other symptoms of the infection;
- the pain does not go away, even if you lie down and relax;
- the pain accompany the additional symptoms of tachycardia, breathing difficulty, urinary problems, constipation or diarrhea.
The doctor also should visit, if the pain in the back, being a child or an elderly person of the age of fifty years.
The diagnosis
The diagnosis goes on after the query, in which the doctor asks the patient about symptoms and perform the palpation, a variety of the survey, to understand what could lead to back pain.
Among them:
- general analysis of blood and urine to provide a general overview on the state of the organism, as well as to detect the infection the infection, if any;
- the x-ray is suitable for the detection of tumors and tuberculosis, allows us to have an idea of the shape of the spine and its deformation;
- The ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging are used to obtain more detailed information of the image of the spinal column.
After obtaining the results of the survey, the physician may presume that was the cause of such a state, and allocate more specialized analysis. A biopsy that shows which go through the processes in the tissues neurological tests that reveal the depth of the lesions, infectious diseases, crops, identify stimulating.
In consequence, the circle will become narrower so much so, that the cause of this pathology will be evident and you can navigate to the treatment.