Types and symptoms of back pain

Spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis and back pain

Spondylolysis (verbatim: "resorption of the vertebra") - the term adopted to denote the defect of the interarticular part of the arch of the vertebra. The term reflects an X-ray symptom rather than the anatomical nature of the pathology, since in most cases the presence of this bone defect is due to the not acquired "resorption" of a certain zone of the vertebra, and its vicious development - dysplasia.

Diastematomyelia

Diastematomyelia is a combined defect in the development of the spinal canal, consisting in its separation by bone, cartilaginous or fibrous spines or septa, accompanied by splitting and / or doubling of the spinal cord, its elements and membranes.

Spinal hernia and back pain

It is known that congenital malformations of the spinal cord (myelodysplasia), as a rule, are combined with any of the variants of the vicious development of the spine. The most frequent and most studied variant of myelodysplasia is spinal hernia.

Congenital kyphosis

The peculiarity of congenital kyphosis forces one to consider this type of deformity of the spine separately. Traditionally, the congenital kyphosis group includes not only single-plane sagittal deformities or so-called sagittal deformities. "Pure" (English "rigue") kyphosis, but also kyphoscoliotic deformations with a leading kyphotic component.

Congenital deformities of the spine and back pain

One of the most difficult problems in assessing congenital deformities of the spine is the prediction of their course, and consequently - the determination of the timing and indications for surgical intervention.

Defects of the vertebrae and back pain

Symptoms of developmental defects of the vertebrae may be absent, and the defect itself can be inadvertently detected by radiation examination. The term developmental defects of vertebrae is used in those cases when their main cause is the anomaly of the vertebrae.

Spinal trauma and back pain

What is meant by the term "spinal trauma"? Trauma of the spinal cord, as is customary in the Russian-language literature, or trauma to the spine, which follows from a literal translation from the English word spine?

Damage, spinal injury and back pain

It is hardly possible to overestimate the place of spine trauma in the general structure of traumatic injuries, the number of which is steadily growing along with the growth of living standards, the development of modern transport, the increase in the number of military conflicts, etc. Etc.

Some diseases accompanied by deformity of the spine

As already mentioned, deformity of the spine is often one of the symptoms of diseases of other organs and systems. We found it necessary to describe in this section some of these diseases, not so much focusing on the characteristics of the vertebral syndrome as on insufficiently known facts concerning the nosological forms themselves.

Scoliosis as a factor in the development of back pain

Among the structural deformations of the spine, the most frequent are idiopathic scoliosis (i.e., scoliosis with an unknown etiology), whose prevalence in the population reaches 15.3%.

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