With age, back pain is often a complaint, and is the second most common polyclinic case, after influenza.
SERAMBINEWS.COM – One of the causes of back pain, wrong body position, lifting heavy objects, or doing repetitive movements.
With age, back pain is often a complaint, and is the second most common polyclinic case, after influenza.
“Almost 84 percent of people have complained of low back pain in their lifetime,” said neurosurgeon specialist Michael Lumintang Loe from Siloam Hospitals Palangkaraya, in an online discussion entitled “Tired of Taking Medicine? Back Pain Not Healing, Monday (2/08/2021) ).
Besides being caused by wrong movements, positions or lifting heavy weights, according to him, back or back pain can also be caused by disorders of internal organs such as kidney, urinary tract, or spinal problems.
In his presentation, Michael Lumintang said that complaints of back or waist pain accompanied by disturbances in urination, defecation, or progressive weakness in footwork should be treated as an emergency and immediately treated by a medical doctor.
Low back or back pain itself can be defined as a medical complaint with an “uncomfortable” condition, pain felt in the area from the bottom of the “Thoracal” spine to the buttocks.
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According to Michael Lumintang, the common causes include nerve root compression and inflammation.
Then mechanical damage and bone inflammation, degenerative and bone changes and others such as psychogenic, referred pain or internal organ pain.
Some of the risk factors for triggering low back or back pain are work and work factors, lifestyle (sitting continuously), lack of exercise, increasing age, smoking.
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