Severe back pain in a man

Men - this is the category of the population, which is called the strong sex, for good reason because it is their share of the lion’s share of occupations that involve hard physical labor, i.e. Application of brute force male. Lifting and carrying heavy objects in everyday life is considered to be a masculine affair, and it is precisely such a load that is fraught with the appearance of various types of severe back pain, even in the absence of the pathological causes mentioned above.

Moreover, since the beauty of the male body lies in the tightened torso and pumped muscles, this forces the male gender to spend hours in the gym. And any exercises with burdening, effective for the formation of beautiful muscles are risk factors for stretching the muscles no less than working with large loads in everyday life. Indeed, muscle overstrain is fraught with microtraumas of the fibers, as a result of which they stretch and become inflamed.

If only the muscle fibers are damaged, they will quickly recover without any special treatment, but the regeneration of muscle ligaments is much slower and harder. Regardless of whether the ligaments or muscles are damaged, their stretching will be accompanied by an intense pain syndrome. Such pain is characterized by suddenness, i.e. Severe discomfort in the back, limiting the movement of a person occurs without preparation. It is worth a man not to calculate the weight of the weighting or make a sharp movement, and his back in the lumbar region penetrates the sharp pain.

Palpation of the site of stretching causes pain while such manipulations can reveal swelling and hardening of tissues at the site of inflammation. External symptoms can be hematomas, the appearance of which is associated with small subcutaneous hemorrhages.

Wrong approach to sports and hard physical labor can also cause a pinching of the nerve, which often happens during sudden movements. In this case, the pain can be localized not only in the back, but also radiating to the legs.

Usually the nerve is pinched in the intervertebral space, but sometimes the cause of this phenomenon is the overcooling of the body and the inflammation of the muscles, which become more dense and solid, and can squeeze the nerve fibers passing nearby. Men for the most part consider themselves to be hardened and do not think much about how dangerous a draft is if, due to active physical work, the back has sweated.

A significant percentage of men periodically drive a car, and the driver’s profession is considered one of the truly masculine specialties. In the hot season, it is simply impossible to stay in the car with the windows closed, and open windows are a risk factor for slipping your back, which often happens with people in this profession. Moreover, the presence of air conditioning, which allows you to avoid open windows, does not save, but only exacerbates the situation, overly cooling the back, which, while sitting, is already maximally loaded and sensitive.

If we talk about drivers, this is a category of people who have chronic back pain, as well as those who sit their lives at the computer. In a sitting position, the load on the spine and, in particular, on the lower back increases, and hypodynamia only aggravates back problems. Sometimes a man, leaving the car, because of the pain can not fully unbend his back.

Stress is not so common cause of pain in the back of the stronger sex, however, the ability to survive all the blows and blows of fate in itself does not mean that men do not know how to worry, worry, despair. Yes, emotionally they are more stable, but serious problems at work and in the family even they can bend down to the ground.

As noted, in this situation, the cause of pain is not only nervous tension (that is, not only the psychogenic nature of the symptom), but also an increase in the load on the spine due to the fact that a person involuntarily begins to slouch under the pressure of pressure. A bad posture leads to the fact that the load is not unevenly distributed spine, and this in turn can cause severe multi-factor back pain.

Men are not protected from infectious diseases that affect internal organs. Cystitis, pyelo-and glomerulonephritis, hepatitis, appendicitis, cholecystitis, pneumonia and many other infectious and inflammatory diseases are equally characteristic of men and women. But there are also purely male pathologies that can cause aching back pains, the truth in this case we are talking about reflected pains arising from prostate diseases. In case of acute inflammation of the organ and oncological processes, the pain can have a sufficiently large intensity.

Osteoporosis is a pathology that is more rarely diagnosed in men than in women. In most cases, it is caused by age-related changes in the body, so patients over 65 years of age usually complain about pain due to day-to-day pathology. Bad habits (alcoholism and smoking) negatively affecting the metabolic processes in the body and the mineral composition of bones are considered to be a predisposing factor.

But spinal osteochondrosis in both men and women develops with the same frequency, and is the cause of severe back pain in people of both sexes. But only for the stronger sex it is often associated with a large load on the back, provoked by excessively intensive training sessions or professional activities, involving heavy physical labor and the transfer of weights. Cervical osteochondrosis most often develops among drivers, computer scientists and other men who are engaged in sedentary work. But for those who are engaged in physical labor, damage to the vertebrae in the lumbar region is more characteristic. 

Spinal osteochondrosis is considered one of the popular causes of the development of radiculopathy, characterized by the pinching of the nerve roots of pathologically modified lean and cartilage structures. In this case, the pain becomes acute, piercing, and prevents the change of body position, not to mention the performance of any work.

A frequent cause of an acute or dull form of severe back pain is a hernia or protrusion of intervertebral discs that occurs on the background of injuries (and when busy with heavy physical labor, their risk is higher), excessive load on the spine during work and sports, etc. True, men often do not pay attention to this symptom until it becomes unbearable and begins to visibly restrict movement in the spine, interfering with the performance of professional duties and sports.

As you can see, back pain in men is most often associated with physical exertion. The symptom associated with the pathologies of the cervical spine often occurs at a young age, which is associated with the general computerization and craze of online games. Men over 30 usually complain of pain and discomfort in the lower back; they are engaged in physical labor or drive a car. Older men can suffer from spilled pain all over their backs due to age-related changes and a decent baggage of various chronic diseases accumulated over the years.

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