Contents:
- Medical Video: Common Causes of Back Pain
- Conditions for chronic back pain
- 1. Muscle tension
- 2. Facet joint pain
- 3. Discus bulge
- 4. Discogenic pain
- 5. Pain of the sacroiliac joint
- What are the consequences if the cause of your back pain is not properly diagnosed?
Medical Video: Common Causes of Back Pain
Understand what causesYour back pain is very important. Why? Because one type of pain will lead to other types of pain, and cause a series of problems throughout the body system. This process causes back pain develop into other areas andand make the body out of tune.
When a patient first comes to the doctor to complain of back pain, usually the treatment method is the same. Instead of using a more specialized examination to diagnose patients, many doctors choose to diagnose passingtrial and erroraka trial and error.
In fact, patients must be diagnosed accurately to see what really causes their pain. Although the initial causes can vary greatly, most lower back pain is caused by one of five problems:
- Muscle tension
- Facet joint pain
- Disc protrusion
- Discogenic pain
- Sacroiliac joint pain
For a full explanation, see the following explanation.
Conditions for chronic back pain
1. Muscle tension
Muscle tension is the most common cause of acute back pain, and occurs in more than 95% of cases of acute back pain. When the back muscles are forced to work too hard, it will become a seizure to protect themselves from further injury. Seizures and pain are warning signals from the body — and should not be ignored.
Fortunately, back pain due to muscle tension is usually mild, can be treated with medication, and usually resolves quickly without further problems — usually within a few days to several weeks. However, even though most tense muscles will heal easily, for many people, muscle tension can be the beginning of a much bigger problem. Continuously forcing your back muscles to work can hurt the muscles and cause chronic back pain.
If muscle tension lasts for more than a few weeks, you should consider whether you really feel muscle pain or your muscles protect other things that are painful.
2. Facet joint pain
Facet joint paincaused by inflammation of the facet joint in the spine, is the second most common cause of back pain. Facet joints connect the vertebrae, which are the bones that make up the spine.
In people who suffer chronic back pain, the facet joint is the location of the body that has an initial injury, making it into the most common gateway to chronic back pain. This is why patients with facet pain must act quickly to handle it before the problem spreads.
3. Discus bulge
"Discus protrusion" refers to a number of MRI findings where the fine disk bearing two vertebrae protrudes outward and reverses towards the spinal canal, often causing pain. There are many variations of classic disk protrusions, but this problem generally occurs and is treated in the same way.
Disc protrusion is one of the most frequently diagnosed causes of chronic back pain — and also one of the most frequently diagnosed excessively, because the disk protrusion appears easily in MRI.
4. Discogenic pain
If the disk protrusion causes pain in the surrounding nerves and tissue, discogenic pain originates from within the disk itself. Because pain comes from the disk, the sufferer feels pain every time he moves.
Discorgenic pain is felt in the middle of the back and can resemble facet pain, so it requires careful diagnosis. Like facet pain and disk protrusion, discorgenic pain can be triggered by trauma, but the underlying cause is often destabilization and muscle weakness.
5. Pain of the sacroiliac joint
Sacroiliac joint pain (or SI pain, in short) occurs in the sacroiliac joint. This is where the spinal column is connected to the pelvis.
This joint is surrounded by ligaments which make the joint itself basically immobile - or at least this joint ddesigned not to move. When the spine is unstable properly due to it bracing weak muscles, the body compensates by walking in different ways. This compensating walk helps stabilize the spine, but as a result stretches the muscles and stretches the ligaments around the SI joints so they can no longer maintain joint strength.
Movement that should not cause inflammation, will cause pain. Though SI joint pain can be caused by trauma or genetics, this pain is usually a result of weakness bracing muscle caused by another form of chronic back pain.
What are the consequences if the cause of your back pain is not properly diagnosed?
When the patient does not get an accurate diagnosis and the right treatment to recognize progressive nature of chronic back pain, the pain that is felt will continue to develop. This can cause weakness bracing muscle, which will cause more pain.
To deal with this problem, doctors and patients must work together and free themselves from outdated and outdated thinking about back pain. It really is a revolution that must begin with the way we think about the development of back pain. We must realize that the body is an instrument that must be kept well tuned.
