Editorial - (2021) Volume 6, Issue 2
Received: 01-Feb-2021
Published:
15-Feb-2021
, DOI: 10.37421/2573-0312.2021.6.205
Citation: Sharama K. "Low Back Pain". Physiother Rehabil 6 (2021) doi:10.37421/jppr. 2021.6.200
Copyright: © 2021 Kreethi S. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Low back pain is neither a disorder nor any form of diagnostic entity. In a region of the body affected too much, the term refers to pain of variable length that has become a model of responses to external and internal stimuli, such as, "Oh, my aching back" is a phrase used to indicate that a person is troubled. This means that an individual is disturbed. (LBP) Low back pain or lumbago is a common disorder involving the muscles, nerves, and bones of the back. It is the fifth most common reason for physician visits. The signs of low back pain generally enhance within a few weeks from the time they start, with 40–90% of people completely better by six weeks. It is not a specific disease but rather a complaint that may be caused by a large number of underlying problems of varying levels of seriousness. The majority of LBP does not have a clear cause, but is believed to be the result of non-serious muscle or skeletal issues such as sprains or strains. For those with disc-related chronic pain and impairment, or spinal stenosis, surgery may be helpful. For other cases of non-specific low back pain, no significant benefit has been identified. Low back pain also affects mood, and can be increased by medication or antidepressants. In addition, there are many natural treatments for medicine, including the Alexander approach and herbal remedies. Back pain is typically due to pressure, stress, or injury. There are common causes of back pain: Muscles or ligaments stretched, A spasm of a muscle, Tension in the muscles, Disks that have been affected, Injuries, falls, or fractures. Increasing general physical activity has been prescribed, but when used for the treatment of an acute episode of pain, no direct link to pain or impairment has been found. Low-to-moderate-quality evidence for acute pain supports walking. Exercise therapy appears to be useful for preventing low back pain. Avoiding injury to the low back is a method of preventing low back pain. Additionally, regular exercise programs designed to strengthen the lumbar area and that can help to minimize the risk of injury to the low back. Specific programs are done to relieve and prevent back pain can be designed with the help of physical therapists. Acetaminophen (paracetamol), NSAIDs (although not aspirin) or skeletal muscle relaxants are usually prescribed first, and these are appropriate for most people Prolotherapy has not been found to be effective by itself, but it can be helpful when applied to another procedure, the process of injecting solutions into joints (or other areas) to cause inflammation and thus promote the healing response of the body. The method of diagnosis focuses predominantly on the triage of patients with specific or non-specific low back pain. Symptoms caused by a particular pathophysiological process, such as hernia nuclei pulposi, infection, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fracture or tumour, are characterised as specific low back pain. A research in the United States found that 4 percent have a compression fracture, 3 percent spondylolisthesis, 0.7 percent a tumour or metastasis, 0.3 percent ankylosing spondylitis, and 0.01 percent an infection of all patients with back pain in primary care.5 Non-specific low back pain is identified as symptoms without a clear specific cause, that is, Low back pain of undiscovered origin. About 90% of all low back pain patients would have non-clinical low back pain, which is basically a diagnosis focused on the exclusion of specific pathology.