High Quality
Open the downloaded document, and select print from the file menu (PDF reader required).
PathophysiologyBack Pain
Daryo Soemitro
Department of NeurosurgeryMedical Faculty – University of Indonesia
Definition
Pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of suchdamage"
(Merskey, 1986)
Low back pain problems are usuallylinked totwoareas :
1.
Lifestyle, which includes stress, lack of exerciseand poor posture, and
2.
Physical injury or disease.
Definition
Low back pain ispain, muscle tension, or stiffness localizedbelow the costal margin and above theinferior gluteal folds, with or without leg pain(sciatica).
The term refers to pain in the lumbosacral area of the spine encompassing the distance fromthe 1stlumbar vertebra to the 1st sacral vertebra.
This is the area of the spine where the lordotic curveforms. The most frequent site of low back pain is in the4th and 5th lumbar segment .
Commenting has been disabled.