Low back pain is a sudden, sharp pain that arouses while unsuccessful movement of body or lifting weights. This state people ususally call lumbago. The pain occurs because of internal prejudice nerve extending from the spinal cord. Often this disease attacks men at the age of 30-40 years, but sometimes older. During the exercise, after the overheating of the organism and its subsequent cooling, after the careless movements of the body – an intense and sudden pain can be noticed. Typically the patients by themselves define it as piercing, tearing, shooting and throbbing pain. At the time of the attack, a person freezes in a forced position and becomes helpless, any attempt to make any movement, only increases the pain, the muscles of back cover spasm.
Pain attack while low back pain can last from several minutes to several hours or even days. Horizontal position and physical rest can help relieve pain. Sometimes it happens that the pain goes away as quickly as it begins. During the following days and weeks, in teh back area remain mild pain, which increases while exertion, sneezing or coughing.While this state happens tension of the long back muscles and lack of spinal mobility.
The difficulty of movements is aroused according to muscle tension and feelings of pain. Some time later, the pain becomes chronic and recurrent, while which any aggravation it can occur as lumbago. The pain and stiffness are the main symptoms of low back pain. To avoid any other causes of disease, such as tumor, compressing the nerve trunk – should be appointed X-ray examination.While osteochondrosis disease starts degenerative and dystonic change in the intervertebral discs. As a result, disk consisting of the fibrous ring and the elastic core, lose its cushioning ability and damages. When lifting heavy things or awkward movement, disc injures the nerve and causes pain.
The best treatment which can be appointed while signs of low back pain it is bed rest. The first what a patient should kept it is strict bed rest on for 7-10 days. Can be prescribed seductive pain medications, treatments of procaine blockade, by means of injection.While pain attacks it is recommended to keep the following diet, do not eat the food which contribute to fluid retention in humans – smoked, salted and spicy. Restrict eating fatty meats and bacon, it will be useful, meatless vegetarian meals, soups, potatoes.Physiotherapy treatment is also necessary, it is used to reduce inflammation,can be prescribed – ultraviolet irradiation, to redness effect,massage which relieves tension from the muscles and facilitates the patient’s condition from low back pain.