Why does your back hurt?

Back pain

Periodic or constant back pain occurs in almost all modern people.Almost no one pays attention to the discomfort or consumes analgesics uncontrollably when he or she has intense pain relief.This approach can cause serious illnesses and complications in the future.

If you are worried about constant back pain, we recommend that you contact the neurological center.Careful and highly trained neurologists who are ready to save you from the disease in a short period of time will be used.

Why does your back hurt?

This may be due to diseases of the internal organs, spine injury (including fracture), neurological pains usually indicate osteochondrosis, and sometimes this gastrointestinal tract pathology, kidneys, etc.Symptom.

In addition, to some extent, the background is prone to injuries and pain.The spine performs at least 4 functions: supporting, protective, depreciation and engine.Therefore, if pain has occurred, this may be the result of this poor posture, severe simultaneous load, sharp movement or turning.

What to do with back pain?

Contact a doctor, go through examination.The diagnosis makes it clear how to cure back pain, depending on its cause.

The causes of back pain

Back pain not only means severe pathologies.For example, cough or walking pain can be caused by a simple surge.However, this is often a symptom of various diseases whose manifestation depends on many factors.

Why does your back hurt after sleeping?

Possible reasons for which there is pain on the back after sleeping:

  • hypothermia;
  • Sharp raising weights during the day (or 3-4 days) causing night pain;
  • osteochondrosis;
  • vertebrae intervertebral hernia;
  • the position of the bad body when you lie;
  • Inadequately selected mattress;
  • In women among the causes - pregnancy;
  • Curvature of the spine, which results in an asymmetric muscle contraction;
  • the predominance and weakness of the muscles;
  • voltage.

Diseases related to joints and vertebrates

Back pain in this case means they may be present:

  • osteochondrosis;
  • Spondylolistz;
  • Ankylosing spondylitis;
  • Bekhterev -disease;
  • osteomyelitis;
  • rheumatoid arthritis;
  • displacement of plates between the vertebrae;
  • Reuters syndrome;
  • Damage to the intervertebral disc.

Diseases related to muscles

Why do the back muscles hurt?

Very often, muscle pains involve heavy loads, fatigue and hypothermia.It may occur and sealing, as well as a decrease in mobility and pain (fibromialgia).In addition, the back can harm the following muscle catologies:

  • CRIGOT DISEASE or bass;
  • dermatomyositis (also manifested by rash);
  • Rabbdomyolysis;
  • polymiositis;
  • muscle tissue infection, abscess;
  • Rheumatic polymyalgia.

Spinal cord -pathologies

A spinal cord is an organ that connects between the body and the brain.Through the holes between the vertebrae from the spinal cord, the spinal nerve pair starts - 31.Each nerve nods some part of the body.If you find the skin (locally), muscle weakness, limbs, spinal cord or nerve numbness.

Further illnesses:

  • spinal compression (such as fracture or cervix spondilosis, abscess, hematoma);
  • spine injury;
  • cavities filled with liquid;
  • An inflammatory procedure caused for example, caused by acute transverse myelitis;
  • impaired body supply;
  • HIV;
  • abscess;
  • Lack of copper, vitamin B;
  • syphilis;
  • good or malignant tumors;
  • bleeding;
  • Scattered sclerosis.

Back pain due to psychosomatics

Psychological causes are officially recognized as a medicine.Psychogenic factors can affect the processes that cause dysfunction in a certain place.Thus, chronic stress and prolonged depression, dissatisfaction with intimate life can lead to constant pain in the lower back.

Types of back pain

Various diseases cause different types of back pain.Take into account the main pathologies and nature of pain.

The nature of pain Illnesses that cause this
Painful back pain (acute and chronic) Lumbago (shooting on the lower back).The reason for this is hard physical work.Usually he goes alone after a few days.
  Myositis, stretching of muscle, sharp lifting of weights, hypothermia, long preservation of uncomfortable posture, such as work.
  Displacement of intervertebral discs.The most common cause is osteochondrosis, but the displacement can also occur if a sharp rise and constant high physical effort.
Acute Osteochondrosis.It causes the back pain, which is given in the leg, and becomes stronger in the case of sneezing, coughing, and tension.
  Radiculitis.Constant acute (sewing) or dull pain.Usually it is localized on one side, can be administered to the thigh, the bottom, the leg, the lower leg, sometimes numbness and itching.The pain also burns and increases in the mobility.
  Between vertebrae hernia.With such a pathology, the pain is increased at tilt, increasing weights, sneezing, coughing, movement, and weakness of the legs.
Pulsating pain, severe, after taking the analgesic, you cannot step away Osteochondrosis, the vertebrae cracks, lumbago, vertebral hernia, spondylosis.
Throw In the upper part of the sternum and in the middle of the sternum - angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, and pulmonary arterial thromboembolism.At the lower back - bowel obstruction, spondylarthrosis.
Pressure Angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, gallbladder problems (pain after meal), atherosclerosis, hypertensive crisis.

By localization

Note the possible causes of pain in different parts of the back.

Pain on the right side

On the right side, you can find kidney problems on the right, sometimes about inflammation of the appendix.In addition, there is a list of diseases characterized by pain from the back to the right:

  • The curvature of the spine is the most common reason for the pages to hurt;
  • displacement of plates between the vertebrae;
  • stomach -intestinal disease;
  • kidney stones (the pain returns the right side of the back, under the ribs, in the stomach);
  • obesity;
  • gynecological diseases, most often inflammatory;
  • Diseases of the respiratory system (if it hurts in the upper right corner) with painful and dull pain, it is possible to transit a pathology into the chronic stage;
  • impaired function of the peripheral nervous system;
  • injuries;
  • muscles near the spine;
  • too strong physical activity;
  • Ectopic pregnancy.

Pain on the left side

If the pain is localized On the back of the left side, below the ribs or the lower back of the back, maybe this:

  • The pathology of the spine (inflammation, clamping, etc.);
  • Diseases of the kidneys and the urinary system (including swelling of the legs);
  • stomach -intestinal disease;
  • spleen diseases.

In the left hypocondrium and higher:

  • respiratory diseases;
  • cardiovascular disease;
  • osteochondrosis;
  • Intercostal neuralgia.

Drawing pain On the left side from the back from the back He talks about the pathologies of the reproductive system.

Lumbar

If the back of the back hurts in the lower part, such discomfort is typical of osteochondrosis, hernia, and radiculitis.The pain of the back of the back at the lower back is due to injuries and excessive load.

Other causes of lumbar back pain:

  • rheumatoid arthritis;
  • Reuters syndrome;
  • spinal infections and vertebrae discs (brucellosis, tuberculosis, abscess);
  • tumor;
  • nerve grip;
  • osteochondrosis;
  • sciatica;
  • osteoporosis.

In the area of the blades

Pain In the upper left corner (in the blades) on the left:

  • disease of the muscle system;
  • Lung problems (pneumonia, abscess, pleurisy);
  • impaired stomach function;
  • Pathology in the cardiological profile (angina pectoris, myocardial infarction);
  • spinal diseases (osteochondrosis, hernia, skoliosis, spondylosis, spondyl arthrosis);
  • muscle inflammation;
  • spleen diseases.

Pain under the spatula on the right side from behind:

  • injury;
  • infections;
  • osteomyelitis;
  • cholecystitis;
  • Liver colic;
  • pancreatitis;
  • gallbladder disease;
  • cirrhosis;
  • The cervical region osteochondrosis;
  • Skoliosis;
  • intercostal neuralgia;
  • Plants -Vascular dystonia.

Pain along the spine and back

One of the main reasons for the spine hurts The compression of nerve processes- Hernia, Skoliosis, spine displacement.Other reasons:

  • osteoarthrosis;
  • myalgia;
  • osteochondrosis (pain in the back of the back, in the middle of the cervix or lumbar);
  • overload of muscles;
  • Curvature of the spine (skoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis);
  • spine protrusion;
  • fracture, spine trauma;
  • Inflammation of the nerve;
  • Disorders of the spinal column structure;
  • radiculitis;
  • Bekhterev -disease;
  • Spondylosis.

Causes of pain in the lower back of the back

Significant percentage of pain on the back of the back:

  • spondylarthrosis;
  • Osteochondrosis.

Other reasons:

  • Skoliosis;
  • infections of vertebrae and intervertebral discs;
  • Non -contagious nature of inflammation;
  • stomach -intestinal disease;
  • stretching of muscle;
  • Displacement of intervertebral discs.

Symptoms accompanying the pain on his back

Episodic pain, even the increase in load, are not married.However, if there is no improvement within 3-5 days and the back pain increases, you should consult a doctor urgently.

Note the symptoms of back pain in the backbone of the spine.

Lumbar:

  • weakness in the legs;
  • numbness or pain of the buttocks, hips, legs, legs, legs, legs;
  • Fast urination, or vice versa, is very rare;
  • Reducing sensitivity during emptying and urination.

Signs of neck back pain:

  • frequent headache;
  • weakness in the hands;
  • sharp changes in blood pressure;
  • increased or decreased blood pressure;
  • Numbness and pain in hands, shoulders, fingers, hands.

The chest region:

  • pain under the plate (possibly aggravation of pain during movement);
  • combustion in the sternum or between blades.

Situations in which you should consult a doctor as soon as possible

The pain in the back of the pain, if not related to severe pathologies, will take 3-4 days.If this does not happen, be sure to see a doctor.In addition, the reasons for contact with urgency are as follows:

  • Very intense pain;
  • pain that increases at night;
  • When it hurts in any position of the body and cannot take a pose that occurs relief;
  • Sudden and first pain in his life;
  • when a person suffers from pain syndrome, under 20 years of age or over 55 years;
  • Recent back injury;
  • fever;
  • A decrease in body weight for no obvious reason;
  • progressive disorders on the neurology profile;
  • general weakness;
  • Changing walking;
  • Long -term intake of corticosteroids;
  • Increase in pain in one month, lack of repairs in the background of therapy;
  • The pain radiates on the leg, especially under the knee;
  • One or both feet are weakness, numbness of the skin, tingling.

Diagnosis

To diagnose back pain, you must consult with a neurologist if necessary and perform neurologists and undergo a hardware study for the purpose of a specialist.

  1. Blood test.

    These allow the determination of the presence of the infection, the ESR (the settlement rate of increased erythrocytes, which indicates inflammation and infection).If the levels of increased leukocytes are detected, this is also a sign of inflammation, infection.In addition, iron deficiency anemia, which may be due to oncology, can be determined by blood.

  2. Hardware diagnostics.
    • The neck and brain are duplex and triplex UZ-scanning vessels.It allows you to determine the structure and freedom of blood vessels, narrowing or expanding, presence of plaques, blood clots, and compliance with blood flow to the norms.It is used to diagnose headaches, dizziness, increased pressure and cerebrovascular accidents by early diagnosis of pre -intimular condition.
    • MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). The most accurate and efficient test method.It allows the spinal nerves and spinal cord injury, reduction of the spinal cord, inflammatory changes, including post -traumatic, narrowing the spinal nerve tumors, spinal cord and spinal hernia, spinal hernia, spinal hernia).MRI is necessarily performed before surgery and during the postoperative period.
    • CT (computer tomography). This explores the fractures of the vertebrae and their character, allowing them to find very small fragments when they are formed during injury.Based on the data you receive, you can create a 3D image from the desired area.The CT "sees" which the radiography remains unnoticed.
    • Radiography. Allows you to assess the condition of bone structures.Fractures, arthritis, spondylolisthesis, are diagnosed with posture disorders.With executable functional patterns, that is, when the patient bends and extends the spine during the examination.Displays inflammation of the joints in the spine, it helps to identify the localization of nervous processes.The degree of intensity of the coloring of the vertebrae in the image allows the evaluation of their fortress (more transparent "with osteoporosis and when healthy, bright white).
    • Electromiography (EMG). A study aimed at determining the condition of the nerve tissue.In this case, we evaluate the electric towels that are carried out by nerves and the reaction of the muscles.Electromiography promotes the detection of nerve compression due to stenosis (narrowing) of the spinal canal or intervertebral hernia.
    • Bone scanning. This study is necessary if the doctor suspects the tumor of the bones or a compression fracture in the background of osteoporosis.

Back pain

Most often, patients do not know which doctor to contact.The neurologist is involved in the complex treatment of back pain.He must contact the spine problems.However, before the arrival of a specialist or visit, you must provide first aid for back pain.

How to alleviate or alleviate your home pain?

The most important thing is to relax.To do this, you must lie on a solid and even surface on the stomach.Best of all - on the floor.After a few minutes, carefully roll over your back and lift your legs, securing them so that the hips are at 90 degrees.So remove the load from the spine.

You can use anti -inflammatory drugs in the form of ointment and creams.After removing the pain syndrome, you should carefully rise and fix the painful area, such as a scarf or towel.

How can you be anesthetized if there are no painkillers?

You can relieve severe pain with a simple tool like a cold compression.It does not give full release, but relieves the condition.This can be a product from the freezer, with ice, etc.Package, etc.It can also help with pain by using a heating thickener or heating bench.It is only important that you do not overheat the sore spot.

What else will help?

Simple physical activity for kneading muscles, increasing blood circulation, helps to relieve discomfort.It can be a comfortable walk, muscle stretching exercises.

Medication against pain: Methods of medical intervention

Above all, the pain that causes pain is developed and treated.To relieve discomfort, to treat chronic pain, medicines are used:

  • painkillers, NSAIDs, rarely -drug alleges;
  • Vitamins B;
  • Musorelaxants.

Man has a bed rest, wearing a fastener (for example in neuralgia).

An important stage of treatment is a physiotherapy- Main methods:

  • Electrophoresis with drugs;
  • phonophoresis;
  • laser therapy;
  • Magnetic therapy.

Have also been executed reflexology:

  • electronsurostimulation;
  • Acupuncture techniques.

Massage, osteopathy, manual therapy and body therapy are effective for back pain.These methods are used when pain is caused by muscles and spine diseases during rehabilitation after injury.

Prevention

Clinical recommendations Preventing intervertebral hernia and osteochondrosis:

  • Move more, do gymnastics in the morning, deal with yoga;
  • Take a contrast shower rubbing with a towel to improve metabolism processes;
  • Massage once every six months (up to 10 sessions);
  • Maintains liver health because collagen production depends on;
  • increase immunity;
  • Avoid stress, create a psychological background;
  • Watching the weight as each extra 10 kg is about 0.5 kg per additional load, which results in rapid wear.

In addition, it is important:

  1. Stand correctly and walk.The right posture is when it gets up to the wall and hit it with a chest, paddle, buttocks and heels.Walking and standing should try to maintain this situation.
  2. Sit in the right pose: do not throw back back or lean forward.You need to press your back tightly against the back of the chair, keep your back and neck under the lower and neck.Every 15 minutes - change the position of the legs, stretch.
  3. Sleep anatomically correct or orthopedic mattress.
  4. Once you wake it up, even in bed, do simple exercises with your feet and hands, stretch it out before you get up (you have to do it suddenly without movement).
  5. Do not wear heavy bags in one hand.It is better to distribute your purchases evenly with two packages.
  6. Do not wear a bag on your shoulder.More useful to the back - backpack with two straps.
  7. A small child should be worn with a straight back, not for bent.It is perfectly best to wear a baby on his breast in a special strap and a little adult - behind.
  8. Do not bend or rotate the body when transferring heavy objects.
  9. Do not bend when cleaned - use an extension cable for a vacuum cleaner handle and a mop (do not wash the floor only ragged, kneeling).
  10. You often eat grapes, apples, strawberries, pears, lens, hazelnuts, pumpkin, green salad, raspberries.
  11. Follow the balance of magnesium and potassium in the diet.Eat nuts, fish, seafood, spinach, cabbage, beans, peas.
  12. Excludes bad habits - alcohol and smoking.
  13. Take part in swimming, running (but only with shock absorber insoles and special sneakers), skiing.

Be sure to visit doctors for preventive examinations to prevent the situation from deteriorating in the presence of a disease and start treatment in time.