Treatments For Lumbago

Low back pain or lumbago is a skeletal muscle syndrome, characterized by pain focused in the lower back (lumbar area). It is produced by the relaxation of lumbar muscles.

Is caused by different problems, the most common are stress, over-exertion and poor postures. It is usually worse when walking. When acute it is normal to have bed rest.

Lumbar processes may be different ways:

* Back pain without acute radiculitis (Lumbago): nature of pain onset lumbar immediate (acute), which can extend the lower part of the body, often not beyond the knee, usually without radiculitis. Is produced by a twisting of the trunk or a flexo-extension effort.

* Radicular Compression acute inflammation of a nerve root in acute form, in 90% caused by a herniated disc.

* Root entrapment: Irritation of the nerve root by the development of degenerative processes (spondylosis).

* Neurogenic claudication: temporarily due to a muscle nerve of nature.

The best method of prevention is to avoid sudden movement, adopt good posture, warm up before you exercise, avoidance of overweight and obesity.

Also applied the technique of lifting weight:

* 1) Bend the knee so that the lifting is done with them, never with your back straight (this position is very common).
* 2) The object should be placed up near the body (trunk).

Depending on the source, ranging from the application of local heat, rest and rehabilitation, through the pharmacological solutions through anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxants and in serious cases mostly related to the spine, the surgical intervention.

Treatment should always be supervised by an orthopedic doctor. In cases of spondylosis surgical intervention will be applied only in exceptional cases. If Spondylophytes penetrates into the spinal canal and nerve damage, it is necessary to remove these bones below the oppressed area. But this is a procedure fraught with complications.

The simple lumbago also reacts positively to the technique of hyperthermia This discipline allows medical and physiotherapy to reduce inflammation inside the lesion. Where there are mechanical complications, it is necessary to perform spinal manipulation or traction to improve the prognosis after therapy with hyperthermia.