Back pain is the main reason for leave for working people and sometimes back pain sufferers need to seek medical treatment. It can cause uncomfortable and debilitating in many cases.
It can result from too much physical injury, activity, and some medical conditions. Back pain can easily affect people of any age group therefore reason can differ with respect to age group, as older people have a higher chance of developing lower back pain, due to occupational and degenerative disk diseases.
In anatomical term lower back pain can be linked to the bony lumbar spine, discs between vertebrae, ligament near the spine, spinal cord and nerves, abdominal and pelvic internal organs, skin near the lumbar area, and lower back muscle.
Pain in the upper back can be due to disorder of the aorta, spine inflammation, and other disorder.
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Causes
- Strain
- Structural problems like Ruptured disks and other
- Movement and posture (twisting and other)
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Cancer of the spine
- Infection of the spine
- Sleep disorders
- Shingles
Risk Factors
- Irregular activities
- Pregnancy
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Bad physical fitness
- High age
- Obesity or excess weight
- Smoking and pollution
- Genetic factors or prior problem
- Diseases like arthritis and cancer
- Lower back pain is more common in women as compared to man and it can be due to hormonal factors and mood disorder.
Symptoms
Primary symptoms of back pain are ache and pain in the back or in some case pain in a different part of the body although it also contains other symptoms below.
- Significant reduction of weight
- Higher temperature or fever
- Swelling on the back
- Persistent back pain
- Pain in legs and knees
- Injury
- Urinary incontinence and difficulty urinating
- Fecal incontinence or no control over fecal motion
- Numbness around the genitals, buttocks, and anus
Prevention
Regular exercise can help to improve strength and to control weight, low-impact aerobic activity helps to improve heart health however try to talk to health care professionals before starting exercise.
Diet is necessary to achieve goals however you should consider enough calcium and vitamin D for bone health.
- Smoking
If you observe in your society you will see a high percentage have back pain incidences compared to nonsmoking of the same, weight and age.
- Bodyweight
Higher body weight can result in back pain more often as well as increase the risk of back pain so it’s necessary to maintain a healthy weight for good health. People with more abdominal, buttocks, and hip area weight have a greater possibility of back pain than other obese people.
- Posture when standing
It’s good to have a neutral pelvic other than another position. The balance your weight on both feet and keep your back straight with the head facing forward.
