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Back Pain In Children: Go To The Root Cause

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Post Back Pain In Children: Go To The Root Cause   Back Pain In Children: Go To The Root Cause Date-310Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:48 am

Children suffer from many diseases and disorders intheir childhood days, but chronic back pain is a rare disorder that isfound in them. The general cause of a childs back pain is an injury orsitting and standing in bad postures. But if there occurred no injuryand still your child is suffering from a consistent back pain, do youknow what to do? Well, your child needs an immediate medical attention. Back pain in children not just come witha constant and harrowing pain, but is also accompanied with many othersymptoms like high fever, loss of weight, behavioral changes, weakness,sleeplessness and nausea. You need to keep a constant tap on any ofthese symptoms and report immediately to a nearby doctor if theconditions do not improve. The only way toget to the root of your childs back pain is with a proper medicalattention. You should get a spine X-ray test done and find out theaccurate cause of the suffering. Right diagnosis will only lead to aright treatment. The other tests that may help you find the reasons ofback pain are MRI, a bone scan, CT scan, blood tests and ESR. Your child can suffer due to back pain due to the following reasons: BadPostures: Children have a habit to sit in bad postures while studying,reading, eating and watching TV. It is the biggest cause of back painin children. You need to take a regular notice of that and correct yourchild whenever he follows a bad posture. Injuries:Injuries remain the most common cause of back pain in children. A minorfall can cause a muscle pull or even strain a ligament. If not takenseriously, the problem can aggravate. Pain due an injury can be treatedwith anti-inflammatory medicines, effectively. Ibuprofen is anon-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is commonly used. But thesemedicines should be under the medical supervision of a good doctor only. Spondylolysis:Over five per cent of children suffer due to back pain that falls inthis category of spondylolysis. In this disease there occurs a fracturein the lower vertebra of the spinal cord. If not taken care ofproperly, the pain may aggravate. In such situations, surgery andbracing remains the last option. The problem with this disorder isthat, in children it does not come up with any symptoms. Thereforesometimes it becomes difficult to find out if the child is sufferingfrom this disorder. Herniation of thedisk: Herniated disk is a rare cause of back pain in children. If itoccurs, it causes weakness and numbness in the childs body. The onlytreatment to this type of back pain is bed rest and surgery inrarest-of-rare cases. Potts Disease: Thisdisease occurs due to TB of spine in children. The disorder can becured with the administration of antibiotics like, third generationcephlaosporins and ceftriaxone. Diskitis:This disorder occurs due to infections in the disk. Infection leads tohigh fever, back pain, muscle spasms coupled with behavioralirritability. If not taken care of the disorder at the early stages,there can occur acute complications in the later years of life.Treatment of this disorder includes bed rest coupled with a supervisedcourse of antibiotics. Pyelonephritis: Ifyou were thinking that back pain could only occur due to somedysfunctionality in the spine, you were wrong. There also occurs akidney infection that is a cause of back pain. In Pyelonephritis,children suffer due to a sharp pain that is usually on one side of theback. The pain is accompanied with high fever and nauseatic feelings.The child may also feel pain or a burning sensation while urinating. Scheurman'skyphosis: This disorder is common in adolescents, especially males. Theupper back takes a round shape, thus bending the whole spine. There aretwo forms of this disease. One is flexible kyphosis and the other isnon-flexible kyphosis. The treatment requires bracing up of the back. Spondylolisthesis:Children who suffer from spondylolysis have a slip of their 5thvertebra. The sacrum also dislocates. The severe cases of this disordercan only be corrected with a surgery. Besidesthese, there are other causes of back pain in children. They are tumorsor neoplasms, malnutrition, suffering due to trauma, muscle weakness,arthritis and some of the other infections. But theses reasons aregenerally rare.
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