Pain always signals that various types of changes occur in the body, leading to disease. If your back hurts, you should know the cause of the disease as soon as possible. Back pain syndrome is divided into chronic and acute.
Chronic pain is when it persists for three months. Acute pain occurs suddenly and may be accompanied by intensity (mild, moderate, severe).
The nature of back pain
If back pain is unexplained, you must be examined by a specialist such as an orthopedist, therapist, gynecologist, urologist, gastroenterologist, neurologist. Immediate medical treatment is required for those who suffer from lumbodynia or lumbago due to hypothermia. In this case, an injection of back pain can help, which serves as a pain reliever.
Because spinal pain syndrome is:
- filming;
- dagger,
- monotonous;
- sick;
- cramps.
If there is a hernia in the intervertebral disc or osteochondrosis, the pain can be provoked by physical activity or lifting weights. Shooting pain appears due to squeezing the nerve roots. It spreads to the entire buttocks, groin, thighs at the back.
Muscle cramps appear when a person suffers from chronic osteochondrosis with diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
Autoimmune diseases are accompanied by redness, swelling, restriction of movement, and joint stiffness.
When the back hurts, the patient can help determine the diagnosis if he characterizes the pain level and its area correctly and accurately. The best option is to see a doctor at the first symptom.
Most likely, the doctor will prescribe an ointment for back pain, painkillers, and in acute conditions - injections (vitamin B).
Reason
Pain can occur for many reasons:
- incorrect weight redistribution;
- irrational physical activity;
- pregnancy.
In such cases, the patient will be able to use painkillers or ointments, as he understands the cause of the pain syndrome.
However, back pain can be caused by disorders in other body systems. In such cases, one cannot show the real cause of the pain. And for this pain to stop, you need to know the exact diagnosis and treat the source of concern:
- disorders of the musculoskeletal system;
- kidney disease;
- diseases of the nervous system;
- cardiovascular disease;
- oncology;
- destruction of the reproductive system and so on.
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system include a number of diseases: from osteochondrosis of the spine to fractures and injuries, from muscle spasms to infectious lesions in the spinal space, hernias. When your back hurts, any movement causes discomfort. One should not bend, bend the body, turn and walk.
Treatment
Spinal pain is treated according to the diagnosis. Treatment should be done only on the advice of a doctor. If the back pain is caused by a disease of another system, then treatment is performed on these organs, and as a result, the back pain disappears. Often, treatment is done through massage, manual therapy, rehabilitation gymnastics and medications (pills). Various types of medications are intended to block pain or relax muscles. The patient must have painkillers in his or her medicine cabinet.
Often, to get rid of the pain, you need to undergo treatment. Depending on the severity, the patient may undergo treatment at home, outpatient or inpatient.
When the back pain, has a short-term nature, the pain can be overcome by intramuscular agents with anti-inflammatory effect. Injections for back pain are very effective and, by using other medications in combination, you can recover quickly. Treatment lasts up to 5 days.
If pain is felt, then the diagnosis is more difficult, as it can be caused by a variety of reasons. Sometimes, in this case, a special ointment for back pain can help, which quickly penetrates to the source and relieves symptoms.
Acute back pain occurs in most cases with sudden movements. Treatment of this disease is done with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID tablets), glucocorticoid hormones, decongestants, B vitamins, synthetic origin chondroprotectors and homeopathy.
First treatment method
At the present level, the number of drugs has increased and doctors have many medicines (injections, various drugs, etc. ). The back is treated with NSAIDs, analgesics, anesthetics. If necessary, the patient wears a corset. While relieving pain and reducing muscle cramps, massage can be prescribed.
Second treatment method
Treatment with vitamin B: this drug is given intramuscularly, which is used as an anesthetic. This drug has a neuroprotective effect. These drugs affect metabolic processes, the structure of nerve fibers.
Acute back pain is an indication to take the drug injected with NSAIDs (2 week course). At the end of treatment, the pill is prescribed, the intake lasts up to 30 days.
In the treatment of this disease, various drugs and medicines are used, combined with other drugs to achieve the best effect.
Therefore, if back pain often bothers them, then they are intolerable: a doctor's consultation and a full examination are needed to make an accurate diagnosis. Do not self-medicate and take medication without a prescription, as this can worsen the inflammatory process.