Back pain cause and treatment.

Back pain cause and treatment.

Topics:

• What types of back pain are there?
• Back pain symptoms
• How to prevent back pain?
• How do I treat back pain?
• Final thought

• What types of back pain are there?

back pain duration classified to three types as follow:

• Acute back pain:

 Acute pain can occur suddenly, and the effect will be temporary for a few days or four weeks.

• Subacute back pain:

Subacute back pain will last more than acute back pain like four to twelve weeks.

• Chronic back pain:

Chronic pain   will occur from time to time and even in unexpected ways.

For instance, it can occur suddenly or over time and will last more than acute pain (4-12 weeks)

• Middle back pain:

You can feel this pain when it occurs below the neck and above the bottom of rib cage in the thoracic spine.

This pain can be caused by muscle aches, dull pain, burning sensation, chest                      pain weakness on legs or arms.

• Thoracic back pain (upper back pain):

Thoracic back pain or upper back pain affects the twelve vertebrae attached to your chest ribs.

Thoracic back pain is very serios back pain because it will affect your cardiopulmonary system and if you encounter any unusual symptoms such as fever, chill ,unusual weight loose or constant pain, you should consult doctor immediately.

• Neck pain (cervical spine):

Neck pain can affect your head, shoulder hands and even your legs or any part below your neck.

Neck pain can last for few days or weeks, but if the pain takes more than that, then you need to consult a doctor for treatment.

Neck pain can interfere with you daily routine such dressing, sleep and can reduce the range of motion.

Neck pain can be in one spot or spread to a wide area, and sometimes will accompany headache or muscle spasms.

If neck pain is associated with ever, chill or tingling that radiate to arms or legs, doctor must be consulted for treatment.

• Back pain symptoms

Back pain can occur specifically on the back or spread on all over the back, and sometimes can occurred on different parts of the human body such as buttocks, legs, or abdomen.

Additionally, you can experience symptoms as follow.

• Pain during lifting or bending.
• Pain while resting, sitting, or standing.
• Numbness or weakness in legs and feet

• Muscle injury
• Narrowing of spine canal
• Vertebral fracture
• Natural process of aging
• Tumors
• Degenerative disc disease
• Facing difficulty to stand straight, walk or shift from standing position to siting.
• Dull, aching sensation in muscles
• Limited flexibility

• How to prevent back pain?

• Support your spine during sleeping by sleeping by your side and put pillow between your knees to reduce back stress.
• Smoking reduces calcium absorption and weakens your bones growth, if you are smoker consider quitting or at least reduce smoking as much as possible.
• Reduce the drinking of alcoholic.
• Don’t stay in bed for long period of time.

• Perform exercise such as:
• Knee to chest stretch.
• Bridge exercise.
• cat stretch.
• shoulder blade squeezed.

• Make the habit of practicing daily stretches, to prevent muscle tightness which will cause stress to back and joint as well.

• Avoid poor posture sitting which will affect your lower spine discs, if your work forces you to sit for long periods of time, moving away from the office will do the trick.

• The habit of daily walking will help to maintain healthy weight and prevent back stress.

• When lifting heavy loads get the help of others or use your legs rather than your back, sit and lift the load and don’t bend your back.

• Maintain a healthy body weight, as gaining extra weight will put strain on your back and your spine could be stressed and tilt unevenly (How to lose weight fast)

• How do I treat back pain?

• Even duo you suffer from back pain you can still perform your daily activities.

• Withing the pain you can continue daily activity such walking but stop any activities that will increase the pain.

• Home treatments can be useful for younger people but if the pain continues you need to take a different approach.

• Back pain can be reduced by pain relievers such as Gels, lotions, cream, patches, and spray.

• Muscle relaxant: in case if muscle spasm occurs along with back pain this medication can be used to reduce lower back pain.
• Opioids: this strong medication can be used as an effective treatment to reduce sever back pain, but it should be used carefully due to addiction risk.

• Physical thereby can increase flexibility and strengthen back muscles, beside it can assist with doing your daily activities safely without harming your back.

• If all the above treatment didn’t help to mitigate the back pain, then the last resort will be surgery and other medical treatment.

• Cortisone injections can be used to reduce the inflammation around the nerve roots.

• Implanted nerve stimulator is used to block the pain signal through electrical impulses.

• Surgery such Discectomy, Nucleoplasty, spinal fusion and Foraminotomy will be the last approach for back pain treatment.

• Final thought

Always maintaining a healthy lifestyle to live a healthy and wonderful life.

A healthy lifestyle will start with the habit of eating healthy food, keep exercises and moving.

 Watch for all the sign that our body send to us, to change whatever the wrong things that we are doing.

I hope at the end of this article you found what I shared with you was helpful and informative.

I wished for all of you a healthy and long life and stay safe and chill.!!!