In fact, everyone has had low back pain, and many people don’t care about it until the disease gets worse and worse, even in a wheelchair, before they go to the hospital. There are many patients who found cancer because of low back pain, so the most terrible cause of low back pain is tumor! Spine Tumor Although we usually seldom hear about spine tumor, doctors tell us that the incidence of spine tumor is still very high at present. Doctors said that the spine is the third most frequent location for human tumor metastasis. Some of the spine tumors are primary, but more of them are metastases from other parts of the body to the spine. Nowadays, more and more people have tumors. With the continuous progress of medical methods for treating cancer, various kinds of stomach cancer, lung cancer, etc. have been treated well and the survival period of patients is prolonged, so there are more cases of various tumors metastasizing to the spine. Characteristics of pain caused by spinal tumor What kind of low back pain may be caused by spinal tumor? What is the difference between tumor-induced low back pain and non-tumor-induced low back pain? 1. severe pain 1) spinal tumor: severe pain, intense pain, which can make patients cry, the most serious among the three 2) degenerative spinal disease: acute pain, accompanied by soreness and swelling 3) lumbar soft tissue disorders: acute pain 2. night pain Doctors say that low back pain caused by spinal tumor can be more severe at night than during the day. Because spinal tumors are growing at night and during the day, the pain is more sensitive at night when the human body is less stimulated and disturbed. Like degenerative diseases of the spine, lumbar strain, these common diseases will feel special pain during the day when standing for a long time or doing heavy work to compress the nerves, and the pain will be relieved at night when you get rest. 3, activity aggravation (1) spinal tumor: spinal instability and pathological fracture, pain aggravated by activity; can be acute onset, mainly manifested as chronic pain gradually aggravated. (2) degenerative spine disease: sedentary, standing, long distance walking pain aggravated; acute onset, with remission period, recurrent, no pathological fracture. Doctors say that spinal tumors grow in the bones and slowly eat up the bones, making the hard bones become soft as tofu. The tumor is compressed and the force is transmitted to the spinal cord to compress the nerves, and the person will be in great pain. 4. Pain even after being bedridden (1) spinal tumor: it will not get better after being bedridden, and there is no back muscle spasm. (2) Column degenerative disease: the pressure of the intervertebral disc is reduced after bed rest, which can relieve the pain; most of them do not have lumbar back muscle spasm. Doctors said that the most basic treatment for patients with common diseases such as lumbar synostosis, spinal stenosis or slippage is bed rest, and 80% of patients have their symptoms relieved or even slowly return to normal after bed rest. However, the pain of spinal tumor patients will not be relieved even if they get rest, because the whole spinal bones are damaged by the tumor and the nerves are affected. 5, and leg symptoms (1) spinal tumor: there is radioactive pain in the leg with a wide range; other accompanying symptoms include urinary and fecal disorders, and the performance of the primary tumor may be accompanied by the history of tumors in other parts. (2) degenerative spinal disease: there is leg pain, distributed by nerve segment, and calf pain is common; other accompanying symptoms include urinary and fecal disorders, leg numbness, and walking and limping. Straight leg elevation test: The straight leg elevation test can help find out if there is a problem with the spine. Key points: lying flat on the bed with the leg straight, one leg elevated, if the angle with the other leg is more than 60 degrees and no pain is felt, it means that the sciatic nerve is not compressed and the possibility of having a lumbar disc bulge or spinal tumor is small.