Posted by justinsmith | Posted in Back Pain Causes, Back Pain Information, Back Pain Relief, Back Pain Symptoms, Back Pain Treatment | Posted on 24-09-2009
Tags: Back Pain Diagnosis, hip and back pain, Yoga for Back Pain
Hip and Back Pain are correlated as pain in the hip may denote pain in the back. Most of us suffer from back and hip pain at some aspect of life, particularly when the person grows old, affecting our daily life schedule. Causes can be accidents, injuries, poor posture, in take of non-nutritional food, lack of no or enough exercises, hip fracture resulting in complications like pneumonia, inflammation, infection and stressful lifestyle. Some of the conditions may aggravate the back and hip pain such as Pregnancy, stooping or bending jobs, smoking, arthritis, obesity, diseases in the pelvis etc.
Back pain diagnosis along with hip pain is extremely essential by a doctor to know the real cause of it as patient may experience fever along with pain. Pain the back and hip are characterized into three types – acute, sub-chronic and chronic. Acute pain is due to strain, lack of sleep, damage of ligaments or tendons and it last for few days. Patients having sub-acute pain recover after few weeks whereas sufferers of chronic pain need the advise of the doctor as it takes longer period of time to recover or sometimes do not come back to normal at all. Conditions like slip disc, osteoarthritis, spinal disc hernia and vertebral fracture leads to chronic back and hip pain.
Different types of treatment are used to cure back and hip pain. Some causes can be treated by Chiropractic and others by Chinese treatments like massage, acupuncture, herbal medicine usage etc. Exercises such as stretching, physical therapy, supine lying hamstring stretch and Yoga for back pain is highly recommended. Pain-medicines are also given like ibuprofen and acetaminophen and usage of hip pad is advised. Swimming and slow with careful walking can be done when the patient starts recovering after some time. But, in chronic cases, surgery is also done like hip replacement.
