Back pain affects 4 out of 5 individuals all over the world. A clear majority of these numbers are women of all ages. Although many causes of back pain among women differ from men, it is enough to affect one’s quality of life to a large extent. Pain in the back, neck, hip, groin, or flank may be delimiting, lasting from few hours to few months. Forms of back pain and its reasons vary as one age and enter different phases of life. Thus, the treatment of back pain also needs to be as versatile as the disease itself.
Back pain occurs due to tissue damage in the area around your lumbar spine. The nerve endings detect information around the damaged tissue structures, which is then processed and manifested physically through one or more clinical symptoms like pain, stiffness, weakness, muscle strain, numbness, tingling and loss of sensation. The clinical symptoms vary according to the structures damaged, whether it be muscles, bones, ligaments, intervertebral discs, spinal joints, nerves, or spinal cord. The causes may be mechanical, pathological, degenerative, traumatic, or postural.
Mechanical back pain refers to back pain due to obstruction or malalignment in mechanics of your spinal structures. A prolapsed intervertebral disc would be an example of mechanical back pain.
Pathological back pain is a broad category comprising of infective causes of back pain like osteomyelitis or Pott’s spine, osteoarthritis of the spine, tumors around spinal structures, or congenital deformities.
Degenerative causes of back pain are due to age-related changes that cause the deprivation of integrity of spinal structures.
Traumatic back pain is often the cause of most long-term back pain incidences.
Postural back pain occurs due to lack of posture education, inappropriate ergonomics at workplace, sedentary lifestyle, lack of physical activities, psychosocial factors, etc.
Back pain among adolescents and young adults are a common phenomenon. The most common occurrences of back pain among adolescent and young women are as follows:
Back pain among middle-aged women usually manifests as follows:
Back pain among old aged women usually occurs as followed:
Medicines like anti-inflammatory drugs help in reducing pain and inflammation in the initial stages of back pain. Back pain due to arthritic or osteoporotic causes might require an appropriate regimen of treatment. Infections causing back pain are usually treated with relevant antibiotic regimen as prescribed by your physician.
Surgical interventions are often needed in cases like unstable fractures, cauda equina syndrome, life-threatening tumors, spinal stenosis, and various other conditions that might severely harm the integrity and functioning of spinal structures.
Spine rehabilitation is a comprehensive approach to the treatment of back pain that deals with the treatment of clinical symptoms associated with back pain along with reinstating lost function, a range of motion, alignment, and inviolability of spinal structures.
If you have experienced back pain or have seen your loved ones experience back pain, here are some tips that can help you during back pain:
Watch for following warning signs which indicate the need for immediate intervention:
The following are some tips to help you prevent back pain:
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