Most people suffer from back pain in a particular period of her life, especially if they are getting older. Sometimes back pain caused by an injury, while others no apparent reason.
What conditions cause back pain?
Here are several important conditions could lead to back pain. Muscle Strain around the lower back, which could damage; Herniated discs, the discs that support the back are dislocated bones, causing pain and numbness, shoot the legs from the low back, degenerative disc disease, which could cause like symptoms and can become chronic, osteoarthritis, which destroys the joints of the spine or other joints of the lower back and could lead to stress fractures, or pathological fracture.
There are some lesser-known conditions for back pain: spinal cord tumor, spinal infection; Fibromygalia Sacroiliac Joint Syndrome, Piriformis Syndrome, nerve ischiadicus poly neuropathy, spinal cord and other conditions.
As the spinal nerves from the spinal cord is located inside the bone back, they travel laterally 1-2 cm before they leave the spine. It is at this exit, that these nerves are most likely compressed. Most of the above conditions could result in the compression. This pressure on the spinal nerves causing inflammation and pain. The pain could affect the back alone or can irradiate to the legs.
Non-surgical treatment of back pain
Non-surgical treatment of back pain treated with medication, therapeutic spinal traction, spinal braces, chiropractic care, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine treatment, epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks and physical therapy.
There are many different types of medications used to treat back pain. Acute back pain is usually treated with opioids – drugs. One of the problems with these drugs is that potential side effects such as euphoria, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, constipation and respiratory depression. For chronic back pain, doctors usually before, the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Side effect of NSAIDs are at increased risk of heart attack or stroke and / or gastrointestinal bleeding.
Therapeutic spinal traction, spinal orthoses and physical therapy is used to manually or mechanically created forces to stretch tight muscles, spinal cord, caused by spasm and extend the distance between backbone to relieve nerve impingement and alleviate back pain.
Alternative healing methods such as chiropractic care, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine treatment have long history of successfully providing conservative care for back pain. Most experts agree that conservative care should be tried before surgery is.
Epidural steroid injections and nerve blocks help to alleviate the pain and inflammation of the spinal nerves caused by compression. This is particularly useful for pain that radiates from the lower back in a leg, and is protected by Herniated discs. But it is dangerous and has side effect.
Surgical treatment of back pain
Surgery is only considered after non-surgical treatments have been tried. If you have tried various conservative treatments, you and your doctor will decide whether or not to have surgery is a great way to treat your condition. Speak with your surgeon and other doctors about the benefits and risks of the surgery.