Elderly people with back pain that makes walking difficult are usually caused by lumbar spinal stenosis, lumbar disc herniation, osteoporosis and other factors.
1. Lumbar spinal stenosis: the occurrence of lumbar spine osteophytes, ligament structure changes and other factors will lead to lumbar spine spinal canal volume reduction, which is easy to compress the lumbar spine around the nerves, resulting in the elderly back pain, and even walking difficulties.
2. Herniated lumbar intervertebral discs: frequent bending activities or maintaining poor posture can lead to lumbar intervertebral disc structure protrusion and compression of the sciatic nerve, so that the innervated area of sensory and motor dysfunction, which can lead to lumbago and even walking difficulties.
3. Osteoporosis: low blood calcium concentration in the body will lead to reduced bone resorption, slow bone metabolism, which is easy to destroy the microstructure of the bone tissue, so that the bone brittleness increases, which can easily cause lumbar vertebrae fracture and other undesirable events, resulting in elderly people with low back pain, walking difficulties and other symptoms.
Elderly people with back pain to walking difficulties, there may be other causes, it is recommended that the elderly timely hospital consultation, clear cause and then targeted treatment, so as not to delay the condition.