Thousands of years ago, when the monkeys down from the trees, the spine of a person has become for the first time to experience the vertical load. This led to the fact that the pre-conditions for their disease. In a century of high technology, if you need to status at work and in general inactive life-style, increasingly the question arises – what to do if the pain in your back? The answers to this question, you may hear the many, but only the facilities the correct curative and preventive will forget about the pain in the back.
As in any disease, pain in the back requires the right approach to determine the cause, it caused. Usually, the pain related to pathology of the spinal column. That is why it is necessary the consulting neurologist, as well as the realization of radiographic examination, the best of them will be CT or mri. The implementation of a search tool will enable you to determine the level of injury of the spine, as well as to indicate the existence of indications for the surgical treatment.
Medical therapy for pain relief
What to do when back pain? The faster, the effect is obtained from the drug therapy. The standard treatment includes:
- Medications relaxing muscle
- Anti-inflammatory painkillers
- Vitamin therapy
- Chondroprotectors
Medications that allow you to relieve the muscle spasm need to use in the first watches sharply the problem of pain. Remove the muscle tension allows you to remove quickly emerged compression nerve root spinal, relieve cramps with the muscles. This leads to express the reduction of pain. It is also removing the muscle spasm is a critical step in the treatment of pathology of the vertebral column.
Anti-inflammatory drugs allow you to quickly remove the pain and inflammation if strong pain in the back. They can be used in injections and tablets, and even abroad — in the form of ointment or gel. Vitamin. Reinforces and protects the nerve fiber and the external harmful effects.
The vitamins of group "A" have the ability to improve the conduct nerve impulses, which helps to clear many negative things, in addition to the pain.
Chondroprotectors – medicines, which include the composition chondroitins and glucosamine — a substances that there are healthy tissue, cartilage intervertebral joints and disks. When the inflammatory process is marked missing.
Important! All the medications should be taken only with a doctor's prescription. Otherwise, you can expect the development of complications, excessive required dosage and other unpleasant moments.
Treatments-ways to cope with the disease
Unfortunately, pharmacotherapy of pain is not always available. If you have an allergy, intolerance, severe associated disease, pregnancy, use of many medicines, is not possible. And is pregnancy or associated diseases, often cause the development of pain. What you need to do too much of a pain in the back, and the drugs are contraindicated? Here will help non-drug ways:
- Massage. The massage is one of the safest therapeutic procedures. The only full counter-indication is cancer the pathology of the patient. Massage will release the muscle spasm reflex to reduce pain and improve the flow of blood to all tissues. This will benefit the health.
- Physical therapy is also a safe method of treatment. Exposure to electrical currents, magnetic fields, sc introduction analgesics that allows you to achieve remarkable results. Muscle spasm decreases, pain in the back, go for a very short period of time, weak muscles are strengthened, and nutrition of the tissues improves significantly.
However, before you begin the procedures, you should consult with your doctor-physiotherapist to identify the best method of treatment, as well as the definition of possible contraindications (allergic reactions, oncopathology, the pathology of the thyroid, and the like).
- The chiropractic and acupuncture. These forms closely exposed to massage, but act in a more subtle form of interconnectedness of reflexes.
Easy pain irritation, displacement or lengthening of the muscle reflex initiates a series of response. The result is a reduction or removing the pain, restore the sensitivity. It is also a way of supporting the body in good shape constantly with a pain in the back. However, entrust the execution of such a procedure may just be the professional. In addition to the above methods of treatment of the impact there is another absolutely secure and highly efficient method of combating and prevention– therapeutic exercise.
Exercises to combat the pain, and the prevention of
Already the ancient greeks said – the movement of life. Occupation therapy, physical exercises, in no case, does not exclude the implementation of other recovery activities. However, it is an exercise for pain in the back can be a tool of first aid, until you do not have access to other means. This is related to the increase of blood flow to the inflamed areas, which contributes to the more rapid excretion of toxic substances in the focus of inflammation, which causes pain. We cite the example of some exercises:
- The year of the cat. In the standing position on all fours, prognut arch your back as much as down, then hold this posture for a few seconds. Repeat 3 or 4 times. This loading of back pain is especially effective for the chest and waist.
- Foot interlock hands behind her back, taking advantage of the hand the wrist of the other arm, after that, push them in the back, in the lumbar region. The exercise relaxes the strained muscles of the back — first of all, thoracic spine and transfers the load on the muscles of the arms.
- Sitting in a chair, tilt the head down as much, gradually, and with great care. Try to get your chin to the chest. Whether it's touched or the pain does not allow, gradually, turn the head to the original position and a bit ago. Repeat several times. The effective exercise relieves the workload with the muscles of the neck.
Every day, follow these exercises, for that you not was ill, and the tenderloin. To run them, it's not worth to be afraid of, to the extent of the pain. This is the only evidence that pinch-if the weakened and inflamed. If you relaxed, your back muscles (especially in persons who lead a sedentary life), therapeutic exercise will seek to strengthen the muscle corset back and reduce the work load on your vertebral column.
The ideal occupation, which includes the work of virtually all the muscles of the body, is the diving. Also in recovery, the complex can include a sensation shower and the leak, that reflection will affect the whole body.
It is important to know that charging back pain will be effective only in the case of regular and correct execution. Exercise is best to learn to do so under the supervision of a doctor-a specialist in public health of physical education. Even more, you can run at home. Remember that the health of the back depends on yourself.