Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. This article will have questions and answers about back muscle spasms.
Question: Is a muscle spasm in the back a sign of illness?
Answer: Spasm - can be the result of overstrain and muscle damage. The reason is sometimes only in the personal stupidity of the owner of the muscle, who, for example, waved a pick or a shovel for 18 hours in a row. Then he will feel bad, and he will be ill. But this does not mean that during those 18 hours an insidious disease entered his body and took root somewhere. It is as if a person first banged his head against a wall, and then began to look for the curvature of the vertebral arteries as the cause of the headache.
Question: When on mri a hernia with protrusion and antelisthesis L5-S1, is it definitely not a muscle that hurts?
Answer: Hernia and spondylolisthesis is not a muscle. But a muscle, or a hernia, or a listez, or a listez with a hernia, or a listez with a muscle, or a listez with a hernia and muscle, or muscle with a hernia... In a huge number of people (5 percent, it seems), by the age of 35, lumbar lumbar disorders appear vertebrae. Most often asymptomatic.
Question: What are the options for preventing back spasms?
Answer: Do exercises and work symmetrically so that it does not tilt to one side. For example, I do my best to force myself to wash the car one by one with both hands. It is also harmful to be bent to the side for a long time - usually it is to lie on your side on the sofa. After work, it is undesirable to direct the flow of cold air to the lower back. All this together provokes a spasm. If you have lameness from different leg lengths, then you need special shoes. If the pelvis and spine are skewed, then also align with shoes. There is a lot ...
Question: What to do with the protrusion of the lumbar spine 0.3 mm, seemingly not significant? But the fact is that the pain began to radiate to the left leg. It hurts to bend over.
Answer: There are many reasons for the spread of pain in the leg. If a neurologist with a hammer or a needle found a neurological deficit, then the reason may be protrusion. The neurologist will decide what to do. In general, traumatologists, for example, say that older people do not have a normal spine. Therefore, they try not to do a tomogram once again. Every time they find something, and then people demand to fix their bones. Ask a neurologist.
Question: Fibromyalgia is not from the same opera as a muscle spasm in the back?
Answer: Not really. Fibromyalgia is pain. Previously, they thought that the cause was in the muscles, but then it turned out that it was more a kind of pain like some kind of migraine.
Question: Why should any muscle be in a spasmodic state!? Muscles are in a tense state only when performing work!
Answer: I can easily find muscles in a tense state in anyone. If the muscle remains in a tense state for several months, then connective tissue forms inside it, and the muscle turns into a contracted nodule that can never relax again.
Question: Spasm is primarily a consequence of the disease! How can it arise without antecedent root causes?
Answer: Cramping may be the root cause. Many people use their muscles more often than their muscles can handle, and then the muscles do not repair properly. This is how a muscle spasm appears, which can gradually turn into a hard scar and hurt for the rest of your life.
Question: Why does some muscle cramp, while others do not? Maybe some trace elements are missing?
Answer: Rather small individual features. Sometimes one leg is slightly shorter or the pelvis is slightly asymmetrical, and the muscle is already more easily toned.
Question: And if in the morning it is problematic to put on socks, or after a table or a ride on a fox for five or six seconds, you straighten it up?
Answer: This is a muscle spasm, but the cause can be in different muscles. And after 60 years, the joints with ligaments also become less mobile.
