"Backalgia"

 

         The backalgia is a term for the pain of low back, in the lumbar area, caused by a syndrome skeletal muscle, that is to say, dysfunctions related with the lumbar vertebras  and the structures of the soft fabrics as muscles, ligaments, nerves and disks inter vertebrals.

         Its originates for different causes and forms, being the most common the stress, the physical on-effort and the bad postures. In their clinical presentation it can be sharp if it lasts less than 4 weeks, subsharp between 1 and 3 months or chronicle if it lasts more than 12 weeks.

        When it is sharp the normal thing is to have rest in bed and in most of the times, the symptoms of lumbar pain show a significant improvement in some days to some weeks from their beginning. In a significant number of people, the lumbar pain can be recurrent, improving and worsening with each cycle. In a small proportion of people this condition can become chronicle. Populational studies show that the back pain affects most of the adults in some moment in its life and it represents more cases of labor permits for illness and of discapacity that any other medical condition.

        The lumbar processes can be in different ways: Sharp backalgia without radiculitis: Pain of lumbar nature of immediate appearance (sharp) that cannot extend for the extremity inferior, many times beyond the knee, habitually without radiculitis. It is produced by a torsion of the trunk or a flexo-extension effort. Compression radicular sharp: Inflamation of a nervous root in a sharp way, in 90% caused by hernia disks. radicular catcher: Irritation of the nervous root for the development of degenerative processes espondilosis).

        Giving up neurogeny: Paralyzation storm due to a muscular pain of nervous nature. Etiology A sharp lesion of the low back can be caused by a traumatic event, as an automobile accident or a fall. It happens suddenly and their victims are usually able to identify exactly when it happened. In the sharp cases, the structures that are injured with more probability are the soft fabrics.

       In cases of an accident grave, osteoporosis or of other causes of the Weakening of the vertebral bones, vertebral fractures can also appear in the lumbar column. In the inferior end of the spine, some patients can have coxis pain (also called coccidinia). In other cases pain sacroiliaco can appear together with the inferior part of the column lumbar, called disfuntion combined sacroiliacas. The chronic back pain generally has a more insidious beginning that you/they take place during a long period of time.

       The physical causes can include the osteoartritis, the arthritis rheumatoide the degeneration of the disks among the vertebras, of the spine or a hernia disks a vertebral fracture (for example, of the osteoporosis) or, rarely, a tumor (including cancer) or infection. Prevention The best prevention is to avoid the abrupt movements, to adopt good postures, to heat before exercising, to avoid the overweight and the obesity.

Also applying the technique of rising of weight:

1) to bend the knee so that the force is made with these, never with the direct back (this position is very frequent).

2) the lifted object should be placed near the body (I truncate).