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Symptoms of disease - pain in the spine

Back pain are among the most common clinical disorders. Changes that may cause pain syndrome, are very diverse. In most cases, to precisely identify the mechanism of its origin is not possible.
The spine is the most important part of our body. He helps us to travel, free to turn his head and torso separately from each other, move your arms. Spine - trunk, carrying the whole organism.

Correctly perform the essential functions of the spinal column allows you to its structure. The basic concept is the vertebral-motor segment - the connection of the two adjacent vertebrae, interacting with the disk, intervertebral joints, ligaments and muscles.

If only one of the components of for any reason fail, disrupted the work of the whole spine. At the initial stage all the diseases of the spine person is experiencing discomfort and feels the pain.

Which diseases there is pain in the spine

The pain in the spine is a clinical syndrome caused by a variety of reasons.
The most common cause of pain in the spine are dystrophic lesions of the spine:
- osteochondrosis with the defeat of the intervertebral discs and adjacent to them surfaces of vertebral bodies;
- spondylosis, manifesting arthrosis faceted joints;
- spondylitis.

- Osteochondrosis. The term "osteochondrosis" means dystrophic process of articular cartilage and the bone tissue. Low back pain affects all departments of the spine, but in a greater degree of pathological process is expressed, as a rule, in the Nizhne-the cervical and upper-thoracic and lower lumbar spine. The peculiarity of osteochondrosis is the breadth of its distribution - degenerative - dystrophic the defeat of the spine to the age of 40 is found in practically all people.

The initial manifestations of osteochondrosis is a pain in the affected section of the spine. The pain may be or relatively constant, according to the type of lumbodynia (continued pain in the lumbar-sacral region), or be in the nature of lumbago - lumbago. In a subsequent progression of the pathological process is observed prevalence of pain in one or another section of the spine. Is characterised by increasing pain during exercise, the long-term stationary or sedentary position, are in an uncomfortable posture, sense of discomfort. Further development of degenerative disc disease can lead to severe deformation of the spine on the type of kyphosis, lordosis, or scoliosis.

For osteochondrosis are typical of many and various neurological disorders, the severity of which depends on the stage of the disease (exacerbation or remission). In uncomplicated course of osteochondrosis are a fairly long periods of remission, when the symptoms of the disease are not expressed. For the acute stage characterized by the appearance of acute pain in the corresponding Department of the spine with the subsequent irradiation in the arm, groin or leg.

- Lumbago occurs when an unexpected or sudden movement, lifting of heavy weights and is accompanied by a sudden pain of the type "lumbago", which lasts for a few seconds or minutes, or "tearing" and the throbbing pain in the spine, increasing by coughing and sneezing. Lumbago causes a restriction of mobility of the lumbar spine, "analgetic" position, the flattening of lordosis or kyphosis. Tendon reflexes saved, sensitivity is not broken. The pain in the spine lasts from several hours to several days.

- Lumbodynia occurs after considerable physical loads, long uncomfortable position, jolting drive, hypothermia. Clinically accompanied by a dull aching pain in the spine, increasing at the change of body position (bending, sitting, walking). The pain may extend to the buttock and leg. Changes statics are expressed to a lesser extent than in lumbago. Movement in the lumbar region is difficult, but the restriction slightly. Is defined by pain when palpation spinous processes and interspinous ligaments at the level of destruction. When tilted back pain disappears, when tilted forward there is a sharp tightening of the muscles of the back. Patellar reflexes and reflexes with the calcaneal tendon saved. The process is often subacute or chronic form.

- Intervertebral hernia of the disk - a gap of spinal disk overload, abuses his power or injury. As a result of rupture of the outer annulus fibrosus intervertebral disc into the spinal canal is stuck his inner content (nucleus pulposus, representing a gelatinous ground with a diameter of 2 - 2.5 cm, surrounded by dense cartilaginous the ring). Puffed out part of the disc may infringe the nerves and vessels of the spinal cord, which is manifested pain in the spine and other violations.

"The instability of the spine is a pathological mobility in the spinal segment. It can be either an increase in the amplitude of the normal movements, or the occurrence of abnormal for the norm of the degrees of freedom of movement.

The main symptom of instability of the spine is a pain in the spine or discomfort in the neck. In the cervical spine in patients with instability in the atlanto occipital joints of the irritative pain may be periodic in nature and intensify after physical load. Pain is the cause of chronic reflex voltage neck muscles. The children of instability is the cause of the development of acute torticollis. In the beginning of disease has increased tone paravertebral of muscles, which leads to their exhaustion. The muscles are occurring disorders of microcirculation, the development of malnutrition and loss of tone. There is a feeling of uncertainty in the movement of the neck. Violated the ability to withstand the normal load. There arises a necessity in the additional immobilization of the neck up to support the head in his hands.

The more rare causes of pain in the spine include:

congenital defects of the spine, which are manifested in a different number of vertebrae, most often in the lumbar region.
Speech can go about or extra lumbar vertebrae (I sacral vertebra turns into a VI lumbar, the so-called lumbalization sacral spine) or about their lack of (V lumbar vertebra is converted in the first sacral - sacralization of);

- spondyloschisis and espondilolistesis of - the question is about a defect in interarticular part of the bow of the vertebra, which in the case of complete separation of the earpieces (spondyloschisis) and two-sided localization can lead to a shift of the body of the damaged vertebra forward (espondilolistesis of);

- ankylosing spondylitis (Bechterew's disease) - a painful inflammation of the spine, starting at the Sacro- lumbar joints;

- osteoporosis is the cause of pain in the spine in women (during a month) and in the elderly. Vertebral bodies in this disease have decreased bone density, in connection with than if any pressure is their deformation to the wedge-shaped or to form the so-called fish vertebra (extra holes in the top and bottom surfaces of the vertebral bodies);

- pain in the spinal column can be invoked and neoplastic processes. Most often they are metastatic tumors of the chest, including lung, prostate and thyroid glands, kidneys work;

- infectious lesions of the spine (usually Staphylococcus nature), associated with exposure to blood and the transport of infectious agent from a lesion in the lung or the genito-urinary organs. Another infection, which amazed by the spine, particularly in previous years, is tuberculosis;

- pain in the spine caused by diseases of the internal organs. In women, it is most often gynecological diseases - change the position of the uterus, cysts, inflammation, and ovarian tumors.
Prostate disease, infection urinary channels and stones in the urinary bladder can also be the causes of back pain;

in some cases, pain in the back are a consequence of psychosomatic reactions, which means that some people carry their depression, nervous stresses, neuroses in the area of the spine and feel them there in the form of pain. In these cases, the pain in the spine may be the result of psychological protective reactions associated with increased muscle activity. Perceived pain in turn increases the depression and a neurotic condition, and the overall situation is further deteriorating, the difficulties are fixed and become chronic.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the spine

• Traumatologist
• Neurologist
• Oncologist

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