With the development of today’s science and technology, the increase of life expectancy per capita, and the continuous improvement of modern medical technology, low back pain due to degeneration occupies a major position among many pain disorders, so it is necessary to pay attention to the prevention and early diagnosis and treatment of this disease in order to reduce its incidence.
So, what is meant by degenerative diseases? And what is the relationship with low back and leg pain?
When the human body enters adulthood, development gradually stops, and with it the aging and degeneration of body tissues, that is, it enters the degenerative stage. However, we often find that the degree of degeneration varies, even though some people are of similar age. Some people are only about 40 years old, but their lumbar spine or knee x-rays show the degree of degeneration of the age of 50 & mdash; 60 years old, these mainly depend on the following factors.
1, excessive load
Such as heavy porters, dancers, athletes, their waist for a long time in a forced position, although the normal human lumbar disc can withstand up to 600, 700 kg of pressure, but if the long-term average pressure of 350 kg state, it can make the lumbar disc fibrous ring fracture, resulting in nucleus pulposus protrusion compression nerve and cause radiation pain of one limb, thus suffering from lumbar disc herniation.
2, bad body position
The pressure measurement of the lumbar disc by medical workers shows that when the body is upright, the pressure load of the 3rd lumbar disc is about 70 kg, but if the lumbar spine is flexed forward it can reach 120 kg, and if the weight is then 20 kg, the pressure in the disc can suddenly rise to 340 kg. Conversely, the lowest pressure measured when lying in bed, only half of the standing, it can be seen that in daily work, study or life, if the lumbar vertebrae in forward bending or side-bending state for a long time, is bound to increase the load on the lumbar intervertebral joints and prone to degeneration.
3.Chronic strain injury
Some occupations make the lumbar region in a long-term shock state, such as truck, tractor, armored car drivers, so that the lumbar intervertebral disc for a long time to suffer continuous, repeated high-pressure impact, the formation of chronic strain injury, can intensify the pressure of the nucleus pulposus on the surrounding ligaments and easy to cause tears and ligament periosteal bleeding, serious cases can lead to disc nucleus pulposus protrusion.
4.Violence, trauma
Violence and trauma cause damage to bones, joints, muscles and ligaments and aggravate degeneration. There are also lumbar puncture, rough thrusting techniques, large weight traction can also directly damage the integrity of the normal structure of the lumbar region and accelerate the possibility of degeneration.
5.Chronic inflammation
Various inflammatory diseases around the lumbar spine can directly stimulate the surrounding muscles and ligaments, causing muscle tension, ligament relaxation and imbalance inside and outside the spinal canal in the area and aggravate the degeneration of the lumbar spine.
6.Congenital factors
Any congenital deformity that can affect the normal activity and load function of the lumbar region, such as congenital vertebral fusion, lumbar sacralization, etc., can intensify the degeneration process.
7.Other
Such as systemic metabolic diseases, endocrine disorders, various kinds of poisoning and immune response disorders can lead to degenerative degeneration of the lumbar spine and knee joint aggravate this adverse consequence.
So, what diseases can degeneration cause? The following common diseases can be caused.
① hypertrophic spondylitis.
② lower lumbar spine instability.
(iii) Age-related hunchback deformity.
(iv) lumbar disc herniation.
⑤ lumbar spinal stenosis.
(6) degenerative small joint injury arthritis.
(vii) degenerative vertebral collapse and spondylolisthesis.
⑧ knee joint hyperplasia (osteoarthritis of the knee).