Find Out What Causes Lower Back Pain
What causes lower back pain – also known as lumbago; a very common disease among a large percentage of the world’s population?
Most of the people in United States are affected by this disease due to work related strains and accidents. It is also the second most neurological disease after headache.
Lower back pain can be sometimes very severe or mild. In most cases the pain occurs at the center of the lower back with no major causes associated with it.
As the age of a person increases the strength of the bone and muscles tend to become more and more brittle and less elastic. Men as well as women are equally affected by lower back pain.
Lower back pain can occur when anyone lifts heavy things there by overstretching and causing strain or sprain in the ligaments or muscles of the back area.
What causes lower back pain is when the spine area becomes strained and a disc may rupture. This rupture causes pain in the nerves which are connected to the spinal cord and controls the movement of our body and send vital signals to our brain, and when these nerves roots compress it causes pain in the lower back region.
Low back pain can turn into a serious trouble sometimes if not treated in time.
Some of the causes of lower back pain are strain, nerve injury or irritation, and some medical conditions of bone and joints. Injury, ligament tear, and excessive use of joints and muscles are some of the main causes of lower back pain.
Pressure on the nerve roots in the spine can be due to other factors like osteoarthritis, spondylolisthesis, narrowing of the spine canal, all due to old age.
A herniated disc is also one of the causes, which can occur due to lifting heavy weights repeatedly or incorrectly, or other damage to the spine.
Fracture of the spine caused due to any accidents compressing the spine, which may be due to any strong force can cause lower back pain.
Women after menopause do suffer from osteoporosis which makes even a small pressure on the spine to cause severe back pains. Long term usage of Corticosteroid is also one of the reasons of back pains among many people.
A less common reason for lower back pain is a spinal tumor which grows on the ligaments or spine.
Infection is also one such reason which is rare.
Intravenous drugs, surgery injections, and bacterial infections which spreads to the spine through blood causes lower back pains. Spina bifida which is a disease from birth is also a cause of back aches.
The other factor for low back pain is kidney infections. Pregnancy period is known to cause back pain in women which can be temporary. Ovarian cysts and fibroids can sometimes lead to pain.
Most of the lower back pain can be treated without any need of a surgery.
Oftentimes, treatments such as analgesics for reducing inflammation will help to relieve back pain, but if the pain does not ease, medical help should be sought as soon as possible. One needs to understand what causes lower back pain and how it can be treated with the help of good medical attention.
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