The adoption and accuracy of a series of postural habits helps avoid back pain, if incorporated into our daily activities.
1. General Tips
* Comply with postural hygiene and ergonomics. With the healthy posture is learned to make the efforts of everyday life in the most appropriate, in order to reduce the risk of back pain. (more…)
Tips To avoid lower back discomfort, Dr. Manuel J. Gutiérrez de la Torre, a specialist in spinal procedures, and member of the Medical Service of the Royal Family, gives 10 easy tips to follow every day:
1. It is essential to maintain good posture during sleep, or when standing or even sitting. Awkward postures can stress the skeletal system and muscular back. Causes for poor posture, especially among young people is very tight clothing or the use of high heels. (more…)
The seat must be at a number of features to prevent back pain such as:
The chair must provide freedom of movement and ensuring a comfortable posture
The height should be adjustable (more…)
If the person concerned has a severe or progressive neurological deficit, it should undergo a CT or preferably MRI. They must also pass through the scanner those patients in whom the physical examination has suggested some underlying disease (cauda equina syndrome, spinal infection, tumor, …) (more…)
According to a study published recently in the authoritative journal Archives of Internal medicine, people with chronic low back pain, the common back pain, received greater benefit from acupuncture, real or simulated, compared to those treated only with conventional treatments.
The study was carried out on a large number of adult patients, 600 who had never been subjected to acupuncture in the past divided into four groups.
the first group was applied by a localized and personalized acupuncture performed by a physician experienced in the second group instead underwent a session of general interest to the acupuncture points that are normally indicated in the treatment of low back pain, but without a custom program; The third group was subjected to a simulated session of acupuncture, without use of needles but with normal toothpick, then without penetration under the skin.
The specialists described two common types of pain in the lower back during pregnancy: lumbar pain, which occurs in the region of the lumbar vertebrae in the lower back and posterior pelvic pain, which feels in the back of the pelvis. Some women have symptoms of both types of pain.
Low back pain is like pain in the lower back that may have experienced before pregnancy. It feels on the spine and around it, approximately waist level or slightly above. You can also radiate to the legs. Sitting or standing for long periods and lifting usually make the pain worse, and it tends to be more intense at the end of the day.
An even larger number of pregnant women have posterior pelvic pain, which feels lower than low back pain. You can feel deep in the buttocks, one or both, or in the back of the thighs. You may be triggered as a result of certain activities such as walking, climbing stairs, enter or exit the tub, sitting or rising from a low chair, roll over in bed, twisting and lifting.
The positions that flex the hips – like when you sit in a chair and you lean forward while sitting at the desk work – can worsen the posterior pelvic pain. Women with posterior pelvic pain are also more likely to have pain in the pubic bone.
After the summer take over the commitments and here resurface the first symptoms of stress and the initial tension. Too many hours spent at the desk awaken back pain.
The causes that lead all’indolenzimento lumbar may be many; one of the most common is the state of contraction, from affaticamentio or stress, the Para vertebral muscles. In the absence of inflammation, the most common treatment is to run a reinforcement of the abdominal and back muscles while keeping in mind some basic exercises to unload the spine and stretch and relax your muscles.
Here are some simple exercises three “discharge” of the lumbar spine:
A – retroversion of the pelvis
Starting position: supine with legs apart and slightly bent, feet resting in order to form an angle at the knee between the thigh and leg of about 80 – 90 degrees. Arms resting at your sides with the palms ribolto up. (more…)
In most cases, symptoms are attributed to poor muscle tone in the back, muscle tension or spasm, back sprains, torn muscles or ligaments, or joint problems. Sometimes the nerves of the spine are irritated because of an intervertebral disc “deviant” and this causes pain in the buttock or leg. It can also cause tingling, numbness (tingling) or weakness in the legs.
People who have poor physical condition and work in areas requiring heavy physical exertion, or spend extended periods of time sitting or standing, are more likely to suffer from lower back problems. Emotional stress or long periods of inactivity cause the back problems seem worse.
Even the least damage of any component of the structure of the back may affect the delicate balance of the column and make any motion painful. (more…)
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