Lower back pain problems start when restraining your muscles or being in weird standing positions for longer period of time. Lumbago as we also call lower back pain problems is a sudden pain in the lower back area. The causes of the pain can be various, but is most commonly connected to pathological-anatomical substrate which provokes a strong manifestation of pain. All spine movements are actually a result between two adjacent vertebrae.
The space between them is called vertebrae dynamical segment and most typical for lower back pain is that degenerative changes occur here. Every disc between two vertebrae is built of gelatin round core and around it is a fibrous ring. It is very hard, because of its intersecting structure. It connects the body of the vertebrae and allows their flexibility and gives the core the ability to act as a shock absorber. Because it is built into the vertebrae it also prevents the core to fall out of its place, thus causing even more degenerative pain as lower back pain.
So we see that the space between the two adjacent vertebrae acts much like a joint, though it is not built to be one. Degenerative changes first occur on the inter-vertebrae disc, being a result of aging, some kind of trauma or even a genetic cause. The consequences of this cause make vertebrae discs less elastic, its shape and size degenerates and the fiber which is made of become lose its fibrosis.
Such degenerative changes occur most often in the higher age groups but also in the mid age groups of people. Probably because of different lifestyle, sitting work, insufficient body activeness such causing lower back pain problems. When degenerative changes start also the first symptoms become more seen. The pain shows in the lower part of the spine because that is where the mechanical pressure is highest – statically and dynamically. On the spot where one more mobile vertebrae joins with less or even non mobile vertebrae the pressure is highest.
In most cases when lower back pain starts suddenly it will most likely be gone as quickly as it came, because the pressure on the spine is just instant and most patients dont even pay attention to it and they dont take any actions regarding. The pain is very strong and stabbing, and the muscles around them are become hard and pain is present.
The lower back pain problem becomes bigger when patients who have lower back pain problems that last several weeks finally come to a doctor. The tests are made, a common x-ray test find strong damage. If this occurs, the doctor will send us on a CT (computer tomography) tests. Rarely an MR (magnet resonance) is required.
The patients are then sent to a phisiotherapeutiy therapy to sustain the normally functional spine movement. Such patient normally starts living a normal life within a couple of weeks. Lower back pain is gone, but only if it was in its acute stage. When this acute stage passes (normaly in around 4-5 days) the pain is gone.
If the patients don’t treat lower back pain seriously, stronger and pronounced on the spine can occur, and a laser operation is recquired. Neurosurgery decides on whether an operation is recquired doing special test and x-ray results.
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