Back Pain and Transformation into Cauda Equina Syndrome
In the United Kingdom it is estmated that 80% of the population will at some stage of their lives suffer back pain.
Those most at risk are between the ages of 35 to 55. Back pain is the largest cause of work related absence today.
Most of us, as the statistics suggest suffer pain in the back at some stage but what are the causes?
Back pain can range from a dull constant ache to a sudden extreme pain that may well leave the sufferer incapacitated.
On many occasions it may be easy to attribute poor lifting techniques, over stretching and over use for the pain.
It may well be a result of age related changes to posture or even onset of disease.
The most worrying back pain for most sufferers are those which are onset with no apparent reason or with a serious accident or trauma.
The issue of back pain is one so important to the UK government that they have issued hundreds of documents over the years
to illustrate good manual handling techniques, in order to reduce the amount of working days lost.
What is back pain?
Back pain may also be known as Dorsalgia and is a pain that originates in the muscles, nerves, joints, bones and other areas of the spinal column.
This may be due to nerves being trapped, inflammation of tissue or disease onset, in fact there is such a wide variety of reasons for back pain there is no wonder why there are so many visits to the doctor and so many working days lost.
I suffer lower back pain and from time to time have tell-tale symptoms of Sciatica with a pain that goes down my leg and into my feet. This is due to a trapped nerve. As the nerve slowly frees so does the relief from the pain. Over the years the pain and I have become used to each other.
Mostly I feel a slight twinge in my back and a stiffness over the next to days in the lower back increases.
What works for me is lying on the floor and pushing up with my arms whilst keeping my hips flat, and holding the position this is called the Mckenzie exercises.
The other thing to consider is that it is important to relax as the back pain is caused through muscle spasm.
When back pain strikes it is important to get it checked out with your doctor, consultant or physiotherapist.
Occasionally though medical professionals get it wrong, unfortunately there are many times when a serious back condition known as the Cauda Equina Syndrome is failed to be diagnosed. When CES strikes it is possible for major injury to take hold of the body if not treated with 48 hours of the onset of symptoms.
Back pain should not be ignored, indeed on most occasions the pain dictates that it will not be ignored.
For further information of Cauda Equina Syndrome visit the site: http://www.caudaequinasyndrome.co.uk
Those most at risk are between the ages of 35 to 55. Back pain is the largest cause of work related absence today.
Most of us, as the statistics suggest suffer pain in the back at some stage but what are the causes?
Back pain can range from a dull constant ache to a sudden extreme pain that may well leave the sufferer incapacitated.
On many occasions it may be easy to attribute poor lifting techniques, over stretching and over use for the pain.
It may well be a result of age related changes to posture or even onset of disease.
The most worrying back pain for most sufferers are those which are onset with no apparent reason or with a serious accident or trauma.
The issue of back pain is one so important to the UK government that they have issued hundreds of documents over the years
to illustrate good manual handling techniques, in order to reduce the amount of working days lost.
What is back pain?
Back pain may also be known as Dorsalgia and is a pain that originates in the muscles, nerves, joints, bones and other areas of the spinal column.
This may be due to nerves being trapped, inflammation of tissue or disease onset, in fact there is such a wide variety of reasons for back pain there is no wonder why there are so many visits to the doctor and so many working days lost.
I suffer lower back pain and from time to time have tell-tale symptoms of Sciatica with a pain that goes down my leg and into my feet. This is due to a trapped nerve. As the nerve slowly frees so does the relief from the pain. Over the years the pain and I have become used to each other.
Mostly I feel a slight twinge in my back and a stiffness over the next to days in the lower back increases.
What works for me is lying on the floor and pushing up with my arms whilst keeping my hips flat, and holding the position this is called the Mckenzie exercises.
The other thing to consider is that it is important to relax as the back pain is caused through muscle spasm.
When back pain strikes it is important to get it checked out with your doctor, consultant or physiotherapist.
Occasionally though medical professionals get it wrong, unfortunately there are many times when a serious back condition known as the Cauda Equina Syndrome is failed to be diagnosed. When CES strikes it is possible for major injury to take hold of the body if not treated with 48 hours of the onset of symptoms.
Back pain should not be ignored, indeed on most occasions the pain dictates that it will not be ignored.
For further information of Cauda Equina Syndrome visit the site: http://www.caudaequinasyndrome.co.uk
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