Backache causes and remedies for pain

The back pain is one of the most common health disorders, affecting up to 80% of people at least once in life. Usually the part most affected by back pain, is the lumbar area, or the back of the back, but in fact the pain can occur anywhere on the back. Back pain is one of the most common consequences of stress and discomfort in people in the professional world and is one of the main causes of absence from work. Both men and women suffer almost the same way of back pain, which can be different depending on the person.

There are those who feel a strong pain and persistent but continuous and those who have sudden and acute dense that does not allow the affected person to make any movement. The pain can be caused by a trauma due to an accident or by lifting something heavy in the wrong way, or it may arise over time due to changes due to the advancing age of the spine. A sedentary lifestyle can promote the appearance of back pain, especially when a very sedentary lifestyle on work days, is interrupted by an excess of physical activity, at the weekend.

In most cases, back pain is acute , or lasts a few days or weeks, tends to be resolved spontaneously by spending a few days of rest and without leaving any consequences to the back itself. Subacute pain, however, is much longer and usually lasts from 4 to 12 weeks. In the worst cases we have chronic pain, which is a persistent pain lasting over 12 weeks or more. The latter affects 20% of the person suffering from acute pain of back pain and who will develop chronic pain with symptoms that last even more than a year in some cases.

Causes of back pain

There are some symptoms that are real alarm bells, on some wrong movements that are made. Here are some examples: 

1. When you get up from a car seat and feel pain in the back of your back
2. When you feel pain in the back of your head, getting up from a chair to get an object
3. Frequent headache, with the feeling of feeling a "heavy" neck or "heavy" shoulders
4. When you feel pain in your back, sneezing or coughing
5. When you breathe deeply and feel back pain
6. When you carry weights or collect objects from the ground, you feel a feeling of fatigue in the lower back or the pain. Back pain is however a symptom of a medical condition, not a real pathology. 

The underlying causes of the symptom can be of various kinds, although usually the causes of back pain are physical, even if emotional stress can sometimes play a decisive role on the extent and duration of pain. A physique under stress can be influenced in many ways and can be the cause of a painful and persistent contracture of the back and neck muscles.

Remedies and treatment for back pain

In order to cure back pain, pain must be reduced as quickly and as long as possible, to prevent it from becoming a major problem. To achieve this goal, different strategies are possible and if for some reasons it is possible to immediately establish a therapy, many other times, it is necessary to try other alternatives in person to find the solution that most satisfies the patient.

Here is a list of possible therapies to be done during a period of back pain:

Cold and warm therapy. This is the classic remedy used by older people, passing this system from generation to generation. the application of heat can give relief in some cases, but when you have inflammation, it may be contraindicated because it can cause a worsening of back pain. It is usually recommended to apply ice to the area affected by the pain, for the heat it is better to wait for the 3rd or 4th day, with the aim of relaxing the muscles. The best thing before doing this therapy, however, is to contact a doctor.

 Therapy based on anti-inflammatory drugs, painkillers and muscle relaxants, which have the advantage of relaxing the muscles preventing pain, this is the most used for any back pain.

 Therapy based on physical exercises, individual or go to a physiotherapist, which usually allows you to give relief to those suffering from chronic back pain.

 Get massages from a physiotherapist, usually these are a great help to combat pain.
 Surgery, in the worst cases, ie when the most conservative therapies have not been sufficient, sometimes it is necessary to resort to surgery.

These are the main remedies for back pain. However, before making any decision, the solution to always be taken is to ask the doctor, who once the diagnosis and the cause of the pain is established, will surely make the best decision of the case, thus establishing the care to be taken to treat the back pain, however, taking into account that sometimes it takes some time to get satisfactory results.