Diagnosis and Treatment of Waist and Back Pain
These are pains that occur due to strain on soft tissues (structures such as muscles, ligaments, joints) due to misuse of the body and poor posture.
What is waist and back pain?
These are pains that occur due to strain on soft tissues (structures such as muscles, ligaments, joints) due to misuse of the body and poor posture. There are different causes of waist and back pain: Congenital disorders, trauma and related fractures, lumbar and back disc diseases, lumbar and back calcification, slippage of the vertebrae, rheumatic diseases, bone diseases such as osteoporosis, soft tissue rheumatism, tumors, infections… In addition, pain reflected from other areas such as digestive, reproductive and excretory systems and pain of psychological origin are important causes of waist and back pain.
What are the symptoms of waist and back pain?
Waist and back pain, which is more common and is caused by calcification of soft tissues and small joints, manifests itself with pain and limitation when moving, standing and turning left and right, and is accompanied by a loss of sensation and weakness, especially towards the legs of the person, and after a while the person cannot urinate. If he/she starts to have fecal incontinence, he/she should definitely consult a specialist.
How is waist and back pain diagnosed?
A patient who consults a physician with waist or back pain first undergoes a physical examination. Then, depending on the patient’s condition, one or more of the imaging methods such as waist and neck film, computerized tomography, MR imaging, electromyography and scintigraphy are performed and the necessary blood tests are requested.
How is waist and back pain treated?
Generally, the majority of sudden-onset low back pain is completely resolved with methods such as rest, medication, and physical therapy, but in some people with this type of pain, this pain may become chronic and last much longer and may not improve with the treatments listed above. Treatments such as medication and corset use, interventional pain treatment methods and psychotherapy are applied for chronic waist and back pain.
Although waist and back pain are not very common, they may require surgical treatment. Surgery is performed in only 2-5 percent of patients.
