Back pain

Back pain is a posterior chest pain that affects nearly half of people who engage in any type of work and sporting activity. The pain is felt by turning and flexing the chest or in the movements that the cervical tract can make; in the most serious cases there is blockage of the back, and it is almost always caused by a set of causes, it is very rare that it originates from a single structure.

It is often accompanied by pain radiating to the anterior wall of the chest or to the upper abdomen and can be of two types: acute and chronic. Acute chest pain can be caused by injuries of the intervertebral discs, vertebral crush fractures, osteoporosis, neoplasms. Chronic back pain, on the other hand, can be of non-vertebral (visceral, neurological) and vertebral origin (alterations affecting the intervertebral joints, dorsal spondyloarthrosis, tuberculosis, osteochondritis, postural defects and deformities, especially kyphosis and scoliosis, blockage of the diaphragm, ankylosing spondylitis, osteoporosis, osteocalcin, multiple myeloma, pain of mechanical cervical origin, tumor metastases).

In spinal pathologies, various types of investigations can be performed: x-ray under load of the entire spine, T.A.C., R.M.N., E.M.G., bone scan, M.O.C., blood chemistry tests.

Symptoms might be: back pain even with thoracic and abdominal irradiation, limited walking, dyspnea, mechanical neck pain.

In the acute phase the treatment can be: absolute rest and drug therapy adding or alternating with analgesic mesotherapy, massage, laser therapy, according to the pathology.

In the chronic phase, on the other hand, in addition to treatment with analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs, physical therapy can be added with massage therapy, analgesic electrotherapy, iontophoresis, TENS, ultrasound, magneto therapy, thermotherapy, infrared, hyperthermia, laser therapy and with motor rehabilitation (kinesitherapy, medical gymnastics, individual or group, global for the spine).